Organisation: United Nations Compensation Commission

Veijo Heiskanen has left Lalive after more than two decades to practise as an independent arbitrator and member of Arbitra International.

02 April 2024

International arbitration specialists have shared personal tales for a new IBA competition inspired by the covid-19 pandemic, including heartfelt stories about family breakdowns and bereavements and the ugly undersides of the battles for gender and geographical diversity.

12 September 2023

Charles N Brower's gripping new memoir tells of his time on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and experience of "the intoxicating puzzle box that is international arbitration", as well as mounting an eloquent defence of this form of dispute settlement at a time when it is increasingly under threat. 

20 April 2023

Ukraine is petitioning the United Nations to create a commission to resolve claims against Russia for financial damages arising out of the war – amid speculation that some US$300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets could be targeted for enforcement.

10 October 2022

Vinayak Pradhan, a leading arbitrator in South East Asia and former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, has died aged 72.

24 April 2020

Luiz Olavo Baptista, a pioneer of arbitration in Brazil who also served as president of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body, has died aged 81.

06 November 2019

Nine new ICSID panels have been formed in the past three months, with first-time appointments for former ICSID senior counsel Ucheora Onwuamaegbu and Spanish arbitrator Antonio Hierro.

19 August 2019

Shortly before Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel was handed the lifetime achievement award at the 2019 GAR Awards in Paris, Dutch arbitrator Albert Jan van den Berg took the stage to pay tribute to a friend and colleague he called a “truly remarkable man”.

12 July 2019

The former global head of arbitration at Baker McKenzie Chan Leng Sun SC has left the firm to join the first Singaporean barristers chambers operating on an English-style model, which was established last year by Singapore-qualified advocates.

08 August 2018

Irish arbitration specialist John Gaffney has been promoted to senior counsel at Al Tamimi & Co in Abu Dhabi.

19 June 2018