Organisation: Siemens

Jeremy Sharpe, a former chief of investment arbitration at the US State Department, has launched an independent practice in Ottawa after leaving the partnership at Shearman & Sterling at the end of last year.

02 June 2020

A US nuclear fuel company has launched an ICC arbitration against a subsidiary of Électricité de France over a terminated deal for joint research and development activities.

11 February 2020

Former managing counsel at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Wesley Pang has joined the partnership at Eversheds Sutherland.

16 January 2020

Greece has paid €53 million to a US defence contractor to satisfy an ICC award over a security system commissioned for the 2004 Olympic Games after failing to have the result set aside on grounds of corruption.

30 October 2019

A Siemens subsidiary has applied to a court in Houston to enforce a US$45 million ICC award against a Saudi company arising from a troubled joint venture for the manufacture of steam turbines.

10 September 2019

Mark McNeill, head of Shearman & Sterling's international arbitration team in London, is leaving the firm to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York.

14 August 2019

Nick Cherryman, a barrister who has acted in a number of high-profile Russia-related disputes, has left King & Spalding in London to join the partnership at Kobre & Kim.

17 June 2019

Marco Tulio Venegas, the founding partner of Von Wobeser y Sierra’s litigation and arbitration department, is leaving the Mexican firm after 25 years to establish a disputes boutique.

14 June 2019

Panellists at the flagship conference for London International Disputes Week yesterday examined the continuing popularity of London as a seat for international arbitration, the challenges it faces from other jurisdictions and the potential impact of Brexit.

09 May 2019

The long awaited Prague rules, intended to give a more civil law flavour to arbitration procedure where desired, have launched in the Czech Republic, with one speaker saying they are “here to help arbitration live up to its reputation.”

07 January 2019