Region: United Arab Emirates

A consortium led by Emirati energy company Dana Gas has filed for arbitration against a Canadian contractor that halted work on a US$800 million gas project in Iraqi Kurdistan in the wake of a fatal drone attack. 

10 September 2024

DECISION NOW PUBLIC: A court in the Dubai International Financial Centre has upheld an ICC award worth US$1.6 billion that found a prominent Iraqi businessman had conspired to bribe public officials – dismissing arguments that the tribunal relied on unlawfully procured evidence.

30 August 2024

Readers are invited to join us for GAR Live Dubai in November – featuring views from in-house counsel on handling arbitrations, as well as panels on the cost of proceedings in the region and integrating artificial intelligence. 

21 August 2024

Egypt says it has defeated a pair of treaty claims worth around US$190 million brought by a group of Emirati and Canadian claimants over a terminated natural gas distribution concession.

04 July 2024

Paul Taylor has left Eversheds Sutherland to join Al Tamimi & Company as its regional head of arbitration in Dubai – one of several recent hires the firm has made in the emirate. 

26 June 2024

The Abu Dhabi courts have ruled that the abolition of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre does not mean that arbitration agreements that refer to that institution are unenforceable.

04 June 2024

The UAE’s Crescent Petroleum has obtained a default judgment from a US court enforcing an award now worth US$2.75 billion against the National Iranian Oil Company.  

02 May 2024

John Lewis has left Charles Russell Speechlys after just over a year to join Stephenson Harwood as head of its general commercial litigation and international arbitration practice in the Middle East. 

08 April 2024

A British Virgin Islands court has held it is abusive for a US litigation funder to pursue insolvency proceedings against a client while also bringing a DIAC claim over the same alleged debt.

05 April 2024

The Dubai International Finance Centre Court of Appeal has affirmed that a provisional award granting interim measures in a foreign arbitration is enforceable as an “award” under the DIFC’s arbitration law. 

04 April 2024