Organisation: Vivendi

A Paris court has overturned an ICC award that dismissed a private equity group’s US$15 billion claim against Telecom Italia, after it found there were reasonable doubts over the independence of tribunal chair Carole Malinvaud.

08 May 2024

International arbitration lawyers have been paying tribute to David Kasdan, a prolific real-time court reporter who transcribed more than a thousand hearings and procedural sessions, who has died aged 60.

08 March 2024

Laurie Craig, who led the legendary Coudert Brothers international arbitration group in Paris, where he helped shape modern arbitral practice and was a teacher and mentor to many leading figures in the field, has died aged 89.

30 August 2023

Thomas Buergenthal, who survived Auschwitz as a young boy before becoming a leading human rights law pioneer, International Court of Justice judge and arbitrator, has died aged 89. 

16 June 2023

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted Matei Purice in Paris and Maria Julia Milesi in Washington, DC to counsel in the firm’s international arbitration practice.

24 April 2023

An UNCITRAL tribunal has refused to stay an Indian investor’s US$156 million treaty claim against Mozambique based on an “unprecedented” anti-arbitration injunction issued by an ICC tribunal hearing a related contractual case between the parties.

19 December 2022

John Pierce has left Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he headed the firm's international arbitration practice in New York, to become global co-chair of Latham & Watkins' international arbitration practice.

23 June 2022

Genevieve Poirier has joined Swiss firm Lalive as partner in London from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

01 September 2021

Robert Volterra and Álvaro Nistal of Volterra Fietta share insights on a recent ICSID case decided in favour of Nigeria, with a focus on attribution and judicial expropriation.

10 November 2020

For parties conducting arbitration in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, the potential insolvency of an award debtor will become a real concern. International arbitration and restructuring lawyers from Vinson & Elkins explain why it is crucial to consider the interaction between arbitration and insolvency laws and the different policy concerns underlying them.

15 July 2020