Organisation: University of Cambridge

David Brynmor Thomas KC is to leave 39 Essex after 13 years to become a full time arbitrator and mediator, with his practice managed by Newmans Row, the new London-based outfit set up by Sir Bernard Eder and former Essex Court Chambers clerk Rachel Newman. 

16 August 2024

Lara Hammoud has left her role as in-house counsel at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to practise as an independent arbitrator at Arbitra International, which also welcomes Ana Stanič to its roster.

08 July 2024

Holman Fenwick Willan has promoted four members of its arbitration team in the Asia-Pacific region to the partnership – Peter Sadler in Perth, Edward Beeley in Hong Kong, Suzanne Meiklejohn in Singapore and Owen Webb in Melbourne.

16 May 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted Murphy Mok in Hong Kong, Emily Fox in Paris, Marco de Sousa in New York and Matthew Shelley in Brisbane to the partnership. 

19 April 2024

An UNITRAL tribunal is in place to hear a treaty claim brought by two Italian nationals against Ecuador over their investments in the gaming sector.

19 April 2024

Ten new panels have formed at ICSID in recent weeks, including first time appointments for Colombian arbitrator and academic Rafael Rincón Ordóñez and Italy’s Michele Potestà of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler in Geneva.

27 March 2024

Borden Ladner Gervais has promoted Philippe Boisvert to its partnership in Montreal two years after he joined the firm from White & Case.

08 February 2024

Barrister and arbitrator Jern-Fei Ng KC has joined Malaysian boutique firm Lim Chee Wee Partnership as a registered foreign lawyer.

03 January 2024

A split ICSID tribunal has rejected a Spanish company’s US$668 million treaty claim against Argentina over changes to the state’s electricity regulatory framework.

15 December 2023

Bolivia says it has defeated a Peruvian group’s US$270 million investment treaty claim over the nationalisation of a stake in a cement producer.

29 November 2023