Region: Thailand
Thai state oil company faces SIAC claim over refinery
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
Interim relief denied in Bangladeshi highway dispute
A Thai construction company has failed to persuade a SIAC tribunal to provisionally restrain a group of Chinese state-owned entities from taking control of a billion-dollar highway project in Bangladesh.
23 October 2024
SIAC hears Belt and Road dispute in Bangladesh
A Thai construction company has filed for SIAC arbitration against Chinese state-controlled entities as they battle for control of a billion-dollar highway project in Bangladesh.
07 October 2024
Thai rail award annulled again after unprecedented intervention
Vanina Sucharitkul of Rajah & Tann in Singapore provides an update on a 16-year battle to enforce a US$350 million award against Thailand, which was recently annulled for a second time by an administrative court following an unprecedented intervention by the country’s Constitutional Court.
16 May 2024
Thai businessman wins asset-stripping claim
A UK court has awarded more than US$850 million to the exiled founder of a Thai wind energy group after upholding his claims that various executives and a prominent lawyer engaged in “dishonest asset-stripping” to frustrate payment of ICC awards.
14 August 2023
Clyde & Co hires in Bangkok
Thai disputes practitioner Dutsadee Dutsadeepanich has joined the partnership at Clyde & Co in its recently opened Bangkok office.
25 July 2023
Thai company faces DIS claim over automotive cable deal
Thailand’s Stark Corporation says it is facing a €608 million claim at the German Arbitration Institute, or DIS, after pulling out of a deal to buy an automotive cable business.
13 June 2023
BVI court finds ICC awards go against Thai public policy
A court in the British Virgin Islands has refused to enforce compound interest awarded in an ICC dispute between two Thai businessmen after finding that it conflicts with Thai public policy.
20 March 2023
Thai wind farm awards annulled in Singapore
The Singapore Court of Appeal has annulled ICC awards worth more than US$525 million in a feud between two Thai businessmen over the sale of wind energy assets.
14 July 2021
Shell can pursue claim over Thai customs services
A London court has upheld an LCIA award allowing Shell to proceed with a claim against a German government-owned logistics company over customs services for gasoline imported to Thailand.
13 July 2021