Organisation: US Congress

US-based Henry Weisburg and Richard Levin and former England and Wales law commissioner and reformer of the 1996 Arbitration Act Sarah Green are the latest practitioners to turn to London-based Newmans Row to support their recently launched solo arbitrator practices.

03 January 2025

Juliya Arbisman, who has advised Canadian mining group First Quantum on a series of disputes, has left Steptoe & Johnson to join the partnership at Reed Smith in New York and London.

02 February 2024

South Korea has confirmed the transfer of billions of dollars of Iranian funds that were frozen four years ago because of US sanctions – and gave rise to the threat of an investment treaty claim by Iran’s Central Bank.

19 September 2023

The US Supreme Court appeared open to allowing a Russian businessman to use the country’s anti-racketeering statute, RICO, to enforce an LCIA award during oral arguments – a case that could open up new avenues for foreign arbitral creditors targeting US assets.

26 April 2023

The first GAR Connect Eastern Mediterranean saw speakers discuss dispute-related trends arising from offshore natural gas fields in the Mediterranean itself, in countries bordering the sea like Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Libya and Turkey, and as far East as the Gulf and Russia.

10 March 2022

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

The US Department of Justice has argued that a statute allowing US courts to order discovery for use before foreign tribunals should not extend to private commercial arbitration or investor-state arbitration.

30 June 2021

A US government-funded media group has taken its dispute with Russia over new requirements for foreign-funded outlets to the European Court of Human Rights – months after threatening the state with a treaty claim over the same measures.

16 April 2021

The ITA-IEL-ICC joint conference on international energy arbitration considered the future of the energy industry and the challenges the industry faces during the covid-19 pandemic. Maria Slobodchikova of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York reports.

24 February 2021

A Swiss court has overturned a CAS award that handed a Chinese swimmer an eight-year doping ban – finding that the tribunal chair, former Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini, had shown bias in tweets criticising Chinese dog meat eating practices and referencing skin colour.

15 January 2021