Work Area: Commercial arbitration
Gibson Dunn partner picks up Swiss prize for advocacy
The Swiss Arbitration Association has awarded Gibson Dunn’s New York-based co-chair of international arbitration Rahim Moloo its advocacy prize.
08 February 2024
Sony denied emergency relief in Indian merger dispute
A SIAC emergency arbitrator has refused to restrain India’s largest listed media company from pursuing court proceedings to try to enforce a US$10 billion merger with Sony.
05 February 2024
Singapore court dismisses forgery challenge to Indian power plant award
A Singapore court has thrown out a challenge by India’s Reliance Infrastructure to a US$146 million SIAC award won by a Chinese energy group based on allegations the underlying arbitration agreement was forged.
01 February 2024
Samsung Heavy liable for defective ships
A London tribunal has ordered Samsung Heavy Industries to pay US$290 million over defects in two cargo ships it had built for a South Korean marine transport company.
26 January 2024
Pakistani gas utility sees award upheld in London
An English court has upheld an LCIA award favouring a Pakistani gas distributor in a dispute with a power plant operator, rejecting arguments that the sole arbitrator determined the claim on a basis that had not been pleaded.
25 January 2024
German contractor enforces ICC award in Turkey
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the enforcement of a €24.5 million ICC award won by German engineering group Thyssenkrupp against a fertiliser producer.
25 January 2024
Indian court stays Malawian entity’s PCA claim
The High Court of Delhi has restrained a Malawian entity from continuing with a claim against an Indian company at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, finding there was a prima facie case the arbitrator was not appointed in line with the arbitration agreement.
24 January 2024
Trafigura venture pursues Ghana in US court
A subsidiary of commodities supplier Trafigura has brought US enforcement proceedings against Ghana to collect US$129 million it says it is still owed under an UNCITRAL award arising from a cancelled electricity supply contract.
23 January 2024
Four convictions upheld in Geneva over fake arbitration
A Geneva appeal court has upheld guilty verdicts against British lawyer Matthew Parish and three other men over their involvement in a fake arbitration while reducing their sentences and acquitting one of his former associates.
22 January 2024
Ex-prosecutors: arbitrators’ corruption findings against Worley will interest DOJ
Australian engineering company Worley has not only lost a recent US$175 million arbitration against Ecuador, it has likely invited the US Department of Justice to scrutinise whether the company bribed foreign officials, two former US prosecutors told GAR’s sister publication Global Investigations Review (GIR).
19 January 2024