Organisation: Vivendi

Former King & Spalding partner Caline Mouawad has joined the partnership at New York-based disputes boutique Chaffetz Lindsey.

16 December 2019

Korean Kap-You (Kevin) Kim is leaving Bae Kim & Lee in Seoul after over three decades to set up a new firm with Swiss practitioner Wolfgang Peter.

23 September 2019

Former Skadden lawyer Simon Walsh has joined the London office of US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft after working for more than a year as a senior investment officer at a third-party funder.

25 July 2019

International arbitration awards offer “the elixir of investment funds” – uncorrelated returns you can bank on irrespective of wider market conditions – according to a panel at last year’s GAR Live Energy, which lifted the lid on the little-known world of high finance and its interest in the output of arbitration.

28 June 2019

An event marking the official launch of White & Case’s London investment arbitration practice brought together leading arbitrators VV Veeder QC and Albert Jan van den Berg to discuss the future of investment arbitration. White & Case’s Agnieszka Zarowna reports.

11 April 2019

Egyptian arbitrator Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri, a major figure in international arbitration in the Arab world and beyond for nearly half a century, has died aged 86.

19 March 2019

ICSID is moving to new premises in downtown Washington, DC, where it will offer expanded and modernised hearing facilities – with rooms named after influential figures and landmark cases in the centre’s history.

28 January 2019

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has rejected Russia’s challenge to a pair of investment treaty awards that upheld jurisdiction over claims by Ukrainian investors over property in Crimea – announcing its decision after a rare public deliberation.

16 October 2018

In a rare move, Switzerland’s top court has said that it will hold a public hearing to deliberate on Russia's bid to set aside two UNCITRAL awards that upheld jurisdiction over treaty claims by Ukrainian investors over property seized in Crimea.

28 September 2018

French-Lebanese practitioner Jalal El Ahdab has flown Ginestié Magellan Paley-Vincent to lead the international arbitration practice in Paris at Bird & Bird.

03 September 2018