Organisation: Siemens

The ICC commission on arbitration and ADR has appointed eight new vice-chairs to its steering committee as its renewed membership met in Miami last week.

03 November 2022

The German Arbitration Institute, or DIS, has appointed Siemens in-house counsel Ramona Schardt as its new secretary general to replace Francesca Mazza. 

05 October 2022

The Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) has elected a new board to take over next year, adding more foreign members and achieving gender parity for the first time.

23 September 2022

Richard Happ, co-head of disputes at German firm Luther, has been elected president of the arbitration council at the German Arbitration Institute (DIS).

29 April 2022

German arbitrator and academic Stefan Kröll has succeeded Herbert Kronke as president of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), as it announces a new board of directors and advisory board. 

17 February 2022

Areva is to pay €563 million to Électricité de France to settle two ICC arbitrations over defective work by its former nuclear reactor business, Framatome.  

02 July 2021

Amy Kläsener has left her role as Dentons’ head of arbitration in Germany to join Jones Day in Frankfurt.

11 May 2021

A US company has reportedly threatened the Dominican Republic with international arbitration after the state refused to allow it to operate a second power barge on one of its rivers.

05 May 2021

Mexican firm Von Wobeser y Sierra has promoted Raymundo Soberanis to partner and Pablo Fautsch and Jessika Rocha to counsel in its arbitration team.

22 February 2021

Stuart Dutson, partner and head of international arbitration at Simmons & Simmons, and Basil Woodd-Walker, managing associate, argue that in trying to solve one problem, the new LCIA rules create another – a risk that awards in consolidated arbitrations could be challenged on the grounds that one or more parties have been able to exercise their right to choose an arbitrator.

02 October 2020