Organisation: Samsung

Samsung’s engineering arm and Saipem have filed SIAC proceedings against a Thai state-owned oil company over its enforcement of security for a US$4 billion refinery expansion project.

26 March 2025

A Samsung-led consortium has won €315 million in an ICC case against a Qatari state-owned company over a terminated contract to build two metro stations in Doha.

04 March 2025

Samsung’s construction arm has reportedly settled its US$150 million ICC claim against Morocco’s state-owned phosphate producer, which is also facing two other claims.

06 September 2024

The Commercial Court in London has rejected South Korea’s jurisdictional challenge to a US$108 million investment treaty award won by New York hedge fund Elliott Associates over the state’s interference in a US$8 billion merger. 

01 August 2024

South Korea has applied to set aside a US$32 million investment treaty award won by US hedge fund Mason Capital over the state’s interference in a Samsung merger. 

11 July 2024

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries says it will file a claim at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre against a Russian shipyard owner that cancelled contracts worth US$4.3 billion for the supply of oil and gas tankers. 

13 June 2024

US hedge fund Mason Capital has asked a court in Washington, DC, to enforce a US$32 million investment treaty award against South Korea arising from the state’s interference in an US$8 billion Samsung merger. 

29 May 2024

An award requiring South Korea to pay US$32 million to US hedge fund Mason Capital for interfering in an US$8 billion Samsung merger is now public.

21 May 2024

Robert Wachter and Sean (Sungwoo) Lim have left their roles as co-heads of international arbitration at Lee & Ko to join Korean rival Shin & Kim – as Sunyoung Kim also leaves the firm to rejoin Baker McKenzie’s Korean arm. 

14 May 2024

Peter Turner KC is retiring from the partnership at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after 27 years to join 39 Essex Chambers in London. 

03 May 2024