Work Area: Enforcement and set-aside

Singapore’s Court of Appeal has upheld the enforcement of a US$140 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal, finding the state was precluded from relitigating issues that have already been determined by the courts at the seat of the arbitration.

15 December 2023

A US appeals court has upheld the enforcement of two tortilla flour producers’ US$626 million award against Venezuela, finding that it could not second guess an ICSID annulment committee’s refusal to recognise counsel designated by the country’s government-in-exile.

14 December 2023

The Singapore International Commercial Court has said it will grant an anti-suit injunction to prevent a Korean airline from pursuing litigation in its home courts against a Swiss catering group and its directors.

12 December 2023

After ruling that an US$11 billion award against Nigeria was obtained by fraud, a judge in London has decided it should be set aside rather than remitted to the arbitrators for reconsideration.

08 December 2023

Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo says it has been awarded almost US$46 million in fees and costs after prevailing in an ICDR arbitration with US biotech group Seagen over rights to technology used in cancer medicines.

08 December 2023

A French biopharma group has asked a US court to enforce an ICC award that restrains its Swiss partner Galderma from independently obtaining regulatory approval for a novel Botox treatment.

05 December 2023

A Cyprus-registered oil trader has asked a US court to enforce a US$47.6 million Energy Charter Treaty claim award against Poland over the state’s refusal to comply with decisions by its own courts.

04 December 2023

The ICC Court has disqualified Swiss arbitrator Charles Poncet from hearing Crescent Petroleum’s US$32 billion arbitration against the National Iranian Oil Company after he was accused of displaying anti-Muslim bias during a television broadcast about swimwear.

30 November 2023

Singapore’s International Commercial Court has rejected arguments that tribunal majority Doug Jones and Keechang Kim showed apparent bias in an ICC arbitration despite a forceful dissent by arbitrator Philip Habegger accusing them of dishonesty.

30 November 2023

A French court has refused to stay an action to annul an ICC jurisdictional award in a dispute between a Chinese construction company and its Algerian partners in light of pending criminal proceedings in Algeria.

30 November 2023