An ICSID tribunal hearing a Canadian silver-mining company’s NAFTA claim against Mexico has ordered the state to stop blocking VAT refund payments – warning it is in “direct breach” of an earlier ...

The United Kingdom has revealed it is facing an arbitration brought by sanctioned Russian-Israeli billionaire Mikhail Fridman, as a tribunal is appointed to hear a separate claim against the state ...

Texas private equity group Lone Star has said it intends to resubmit an ICSID claim against South Korea over state interference in the sale of a bank after a US$230 million award in its favour was ...

A Dutch court has upheld the provisional attachment of assets of a gas pipeline operator owned by Russia’s Gazprom, which were frozen by a Ukrainian energy company seeking to enforce a US$300 million ...

In the 40th Freshfields lecture, Meg Kinnear spoke about the aftermath and legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11, the "single most important investment law agreement to date," and how it has shaped modern ...

Belgian academic Maud Piers has joined Düsseldorf-based boutique Gantenberg Dispute Experts to practise as arbitrator and mediator alongside her AI-focused research at Ghent University in Belgium.

Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has opened an office in Tashkent to build on its work acting for state entities in Central Asia and the CIS region.

Russia has petitioned the US Supreme Court for leave to appeal a ruling in favour of the former majority shareholders of Yukos Oil Company in proceedings to enforce awards worth US$65 billion – ...

Philippe Pinsolle of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan warned parties against agreeing to a duty to arbitrate in good faith, arguing they risked surrendering procedural control to interventionist ...

A Moscow commercial court has scheduled a “recovery of funds” hearing in light of the failure of participants in Wintershall Dea’s Energy Charter Treaty case against Russia to comply with an ...

In the first known recusal in the courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre, the judge in charge of the arbitration division, Shamlan Al Sawalehi, has stepped down from hearing an application ...

The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the enforcement of an ICC award ordering an Algerian state entity to pay US$60 million to an Egyptian investor in a cement project – as an award is awaited in a ...