Organisation: Petrobras

Amid efforts to modernise ISDS, and with investors and states often settling disputes before an arbitration award, the launch event of the Council of International Dispute Resolution of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Riyadh explored way to promote more amicable resolution of disputes through negotiation or mediation.

12 March 2025

UK-Argentine boutique Dechamps International Law has hired Juan Pomés as a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to launch its new office in Montevideo. 

24 September 2024

Brazil’s state-run oil and gas company Petrobras says it has defeated an arbitration brought by an association on behalf of shareholders who suffered losses arising from the Lava Jato corruption scandal.

17 September 2024

A Singaporean state-owned company has agreed to settle the remaining part of a US$176 million SIAC award over contracts for oil drilling equipment that were terminated in the wake of Brazil’s Lava Jato scandal. 

23 May 2024

UPDATED: A Norwegian-US joint venture company has won more than US$108 million in a SIAC arbitration with a Singaporean state-owned company over contracts to build oil drilling equipment that were terminated in the wake of Brazil's Lava Jato corruption scandal.

18 April 2024

Two minority shareholders in Brazil’s national oil and gas company Petrobras have failed to persuade a São Paulo court to reinstate a jurisdictional award in a US$34 billion arbitration against Brazil arising from the Lava Jato corruption scandal.

22 November 2023

Laurie Craig, who led the legendary Coudert Brothers international arbitration group in Paris, where he helped shape modern arbitral practice and was a teacher and mentor to many leading figures in the field, has died aged 89.

30 August 2023

Brazilian arbitrator Anderson Schreiber has resigned from a tribunal hearing a shareholder claim against Petrobras over losses connected to the Lava Jato corruption scandal, after the state-owned company challenged him over an alleged conflict of interest.

26 July 2023

A court in Lima has upheld an UNCITRAL award that terminated an Odebrecht consortium’s concession to expand an irrigation system in Peru.

26 June 2023

Brazil’s Petrobras has lost a US$162 million arbitration against the construction group formerly known as Odebrecht over alleged violations of a shareholders’ agreement for a petrochemicals company.

11 May 2023