Organisation: Petrobras

Charles N Brower's gripping new memoir tells of his time on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and experience of "the intoxicating puzzle box that is international arbitration", as well as mounting an eloquent defence of this form of dispute settlement at a time when it is increasingly under threat. 

20 April 2023

A court in Trinidad and Tobago has set aside a US$126 million LCIA award won by a Brazilian contractor against the Caribbean state’s national infrastructure company – finding that the tribunal made conclusions that “no reasonable arbitrator” should have reached.  

30 January 2023

An UNCITRAL tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay US$105 million to a Barbadian subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum after finding the state liable for discriminatory conduct in its payment of dividends from an oil and gas venture. 

18 November 2022

A Brazilian court has upheld an ICC award in an acrimonious dispute over the multibillion-dollar sale of a pulp producer, dismissing allegations the procedure was tainted by a cyberattack and a conflict of interests and awarding US$114 million in legal fees to the winning side.

04 August 2022

A Brazil v Rest of the World football match organised as part of the ICCA Congress in Rio de Janeiro over a decade ago has been cited as part of a failed bid to annul an award in a €70 million ICC dispute, after it was argued that Italian arbitrator Stefano Azzali should have disclosed he played in the game alongside one of the lead counsel.  

22 June 2022

A Brazilian contractor has won a US$126 million LCIA award against Trinidad and Tobago’s national infrastructure company in a dispute over a coastal highway project.

23 May 2022

A US court has ruled that Brazil’s Petrobras is barred from pursuing bribery claims in an ICDR arbitration over the purchase of a US oil refinery under the terms of a decade-old US$820 million settlement.

03 May 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright has named partner Kevin O’Gorman in Houston as its new US head of international arbitration.

04 March 2022

Remme Verkerk, who specialises in set-aside and enforcement proceedings in the Dutch courts and has been defending Russia in the Yukos case, has made partner at Houthoff in Rotterdam.

28 October 2021

Construction and energy disputes lawyer David Kiefer has joined McDermott Will & Emery as partner in New York from King & Spalding.

21 October 2021