Organisation: The New York Times

Swiss arbitrator Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler will preside over a sanctioned Belarusian state-owned entity's billion-euro investment treaty claim against Lithuania over a terminated fertiliser transport contract.

18 September 2024

A Belarusian state-owned entity has launched an investment treaty claim against Lithuania over the termination of a contract for the transportation of fertilisers in the wake of international sanctions.

15 November 2023

A dispute over rights to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has settled after an arbitrator ruled following the author's death that successors and heirs to the makers of the Academy award-winning film retain the movie remake and sequel rights.

24 February 2022

Carl Salans, who founded the law firm Salans and was a leading specialist in international law and arbitration, has died aged 88. 

26 November 2021

Former International Court of Justice judge Bruno Simma has welcomed a move by the court to prevent judges moonlighting as arbitrators in investor-state cases, saying “there was a danger to the reputation of the court which was countered at the right time, the right moment”; while new judge Georg Nolte said the work of the court is “so intense” that taking on more is not a good idea.

09 April 2021

A Russian engineering company hit with US sanctions has reportedly brought a SIAC claim against state-owned PetroVietnam over a stalled project to build a US$1.3 billion power plant.

04 November 2019

A court in Ankara will continue to hear terrorism charges brought against a Turkish businessman despite a recommendation from an ICSID tribunal hearing his company’s US$5 billion claim against Turkey that the case be suspended.

16 October 2019

A US court has enforced an ICSID award worth over US$400 million against Venezuela after finding it was bound to recognise lawyers acting for Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate representatives.

22 May 2019

A NAFTA tribunal has begun hearing a US$700 million claim against Mexico brought by a group of US investors in an oil services business, as the state faces two other treaty disputes worth a combined US$95 million relating to hotel properties in a coastal town expropriated in dramatic circumstances.

26 February 2019

After reportedly being acquired by a private equity firm known for its funding of ICSID cases, a Panamanian holding company has threatened to bring an investment treaty claim against Uruguay over the renationalisation of an airline.

24 October 2018