International Arbitration

  • February 26, 2025

    'Congress Favors Arbitration' In EB-5 Suit, 11th Circ. Told

    A Canadian citizen who is accused in a Florida lawsuit of defrauding foreign investors told the Eleventh Circuit in a hearing Wednesday that a lower court wrongfully sent the case back to state court and denied a request to halt proceedings, telling the panel that "Congress favors arbitration."

  • February 26, 2025

    Litigation Funder, Investor Settle £16M Arbitral Award Claim

    A litigation funder has settled its clash with a Finnish mining investor it accused of owing as much as £16.74 million ($21.2 million) from arbitration proceedings against Egypt over the investor's shuttered iron ore project.

  • February 26, 2025

    Supreme Court Backs Broad View Of Lawsuit Revival Rule

    Despite fears of "litigation gamesmanship," the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.

  • February 25, 2025

    Walgreens Inks $595M Deal To End COVID-19 Testing Suit

    Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. has agreed to pay $595 million to a lab testing and diagnostics company to put to rest a dispute over COVID-19 tests, according to a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • February 25, 2025

    U.S.-Based Railroad Investor Slams Mexico With NAFTA Claim

    A railroad investor from the United States is arguing in a multi-million-dollar international arbitration claim against Mexico that the country expropriated his investment in a concession to operate two of Mexico's major railroads — but did so without compensation.

  • February 25, 2025

    Pa. Biotech Co. Can't Escape $4M Trade Secrets Award

    A Delaware vice chancellor declined Monday to nix a nearly $4 million arbitral award issued to Finnish company UPM-Kymmene Corp. in a long-running trade secrets dispute, ruling that a link between the arbitrator and the Finnish company's counsel at DLA Piper was "at most, an attenuated connection."

  • February 25, 2025

    Businessman Looks To Nix $21M Arbitral Award

    A businessman who controls real estate investment firm World Capital Properties Ltd. is urging the Eleventh Circuit to nix the enforcement of a $21.3 million arbitral award against him, arguing that he never signed an underlying arbitration agreement and objected "early, often and consistently" to the arbitration.

  • February 25, 2025

    K&L Gates Adds Kilpatrick Int'l Disputes Global Lead In DC

    K&L Gates LLP announced it has hired the former leader of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's global international disputes group, who is joining the firm's energy, infrastructure and resources practice to work with power and utilities clients.

  • February 24, 2025

    Dominican Republic Slams Report Favoring $44M Award

    The Dominican Republic has urged a D.C. federal court to reject a magistrate judge's recommendation to enforce a nearly $44 million arbitral award issued after the country terminated a landfill concession, saying there was never an underlying arbitration agreement.

  • February 24, 2025

    US Was Behind Privatbank Nationalization, Suit Alleges

    Two Miami-based associates of the former owners of Ukraine's largest bank have sued the U.S. State Department in Florida, saying officials are wrongly refusing to release records showing that the U.S. — not an alleged $5 billion money laundering scheme — was behind the bank's nationalization in late 2016.

  • February 24, 2025

    UK Reinsurer Can't Challenge Tyson's Fire Coverage Ruling

    A British reinsurer cannot challenge a decision barring it from pursuing arbitration in New York against the captive insurer for Tyson Foods in a coverage dispute stemming from a fire at an Alabama plant owned by the food giant, a London court ruled.

  • February 24, 2025

    Justices Nix Whistleblower Suit Over Arbitral Vacatur Limits

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a petition that raised questions about the standards under which courts can vacate or enforce arbitral awards, in a case brought by a whistleblower who sought to challenge an arbitral award favoring his former employer.

  • February 21, 2025

    Russian Gamer's Dispute Belongs In Arbitration, Twitch Says

    Twitch has sued a sanctioned Russian professional gamer in California, arguing the gamer should be barred from trying to enforce an "unconscionable and oppressive" judgment against the livestreaming platform after he was banned from it shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

  • February 21, 2025

    Arbitration Court Upholds Ex-Spanish Soccer Chief's 3-Year Ban

    An international sports arbitration court on Friday dismissed the appeal of the suspension of disgraced former Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales, who a day earlier was found guilty of sexual assault for kissing national team midfielder Jenni Hermoso on stage during the 2023 World Cup celebration ceremony.

  • February 28, 2025

    DWF Hires 4 Marine Insurance Pros From Kennedys

    DWF LLP said Friday that it has recruited the head of Kennedys' marine insurance practice and three others to join its team in London.

  • February 21, 2025

    Justices Nix Expanded Sovereign Immunity Ruling

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a D.C. Circuit ruling greenlighting expropriation claims brought by Holocaust survivors against Hungary, ruling that the historical commingling of assets is not enough to overcome the country's sovereign immunity.

  • February 20, 2025

    Chinese App Temu Wants To Arbitrate Minors' Privacy Claims

    Chinese bargain-shopping app Temu has asked a New York federal judge to send to arbitration a proposed class action claiming it misuses users' data, saying an arbitrator must decide any challenges to the terms of a user agreement even though some named class members are minors.

  • February 20, 2025

    Wells Fargo, AAA Look To Nix Fraudulent Inducement Suit

    Wells Fargo and the American Arbitration Association are urging a California federal judge to nix a proposed class action accusing them of colluding to fraudulently induce consumers into accepting a fundamentally unfair arbitration process, with the bank arguing that the claims must be arbitrated.

  • February 20, 2025

    Guinea Fends Off Push To Enforce $22M Telecom Award

    A D.C. federal court said it lacked jurisdiction to enforce a $22 million arbitration award against the Republic of Guinea stemming from a system enabling the country to tax international telecommunications traffic, saying the nation wasn't a party to the underlying arbitration agreement.

  • February 20, 2025

    Boies Schiller Hires Ex-Dechert International Arbitrator In NY

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced Thursday the hiring of a former Dechert LLP associate for its international arbitration practice, the second addition to the group so far this year.

  • February 19, 2025

    2nd Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Suit Over Egypt Paper Co. Seizure

    The Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday that an Egyptian official has sovereign immunity in a $15.7 million lawsuit filed by the former majority investor in a cardboard and paper company seeking compensation after the company was seized by the Egyptian government in the 1990s.

  • February 19, 2025

    Walgreens Says $1B COVID Testing Award Must Be Nixed

    Walgreens is urging a Delaware federal judge to rethink his decision enforcing a $987 million arbitral award to a lab testing and diagnostics company in a dispute over COVID-19 tests, arguing Tuesday that he ignored that the arbitrator "invented" language in the contract to arrive at his conclusion.

  • February 19, 2025

    Space Tech Co. Denied Injunction In Amazon Contract Row

    A Swedish space technology provider did not adequately justify its request for a preliminary injunction against an aerospace parts manufacturer while the companies arbitrate over a supply contract for an Amazon Inc. broadband project, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  • February 19, 2025

    Arms Biz Can Get Libya's Property In £16M Arbitration Row

    Libya cannot stop a British defense conglomerate from getting proceeds from the sale of a London property that once belonged to the family of Moammar Gadhafi to enforce a £16.1 million ($20.3 million) arbitration award, after an appeals court found Wednesday that it had waived its state immunity.

  • February 18, 2025

    Reed Smith Removed In $102M Shipping Group Award Fight

    A New York federal judge granted a request by the purported new owners of Eletson Holdings Inc. and removed Reed Smith LLP as counsel in a $102 million breach of contract suit the firm brought on behalf of the international shipping group in 2023.

Expert Analysis

  • 5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates

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    In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.

  • Overseas Investment Rule Calls For Compliance Caution

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    Investors should be leery of who and what they are investing in now that the federal outbound investment regime, effective Jan. 2, has extended the governement's regulatory reach to businesses and parties not previously subject to trade restrictions, says Thaddeus McBride at Bass Berry.

  • Navigating Arbitration Confidentiality Challenges In Age Of AI

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    Artificial intelligence is already significantly involved in various aspects of arbitration and posing challenges for maintaining confidentiality, but relatively quickly implementable practices can be utilized as safeguards as AI tools continue to be integrated, says David Coher at CoherADR.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024

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    Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • Series

    Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • High Court Unlikely To Expand FSIA In Holocaust Asset Fight

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    Not surprisingly for a court where the majority are strict textualists, the U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to rule in favor of Hungary in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, reaffirming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as a narrow exception to jurisdiction, say attorneys at Lewis Baach.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling

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    Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.

  • Issues To Watch In 2025's ERISA Litigation Landscape

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    Whether 2024’s uptick in new Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases will continue this year will likely depend on federal courts’ resolution of several issues, including those related to excessive fees, defined contribution plan forfeitures, and pleading standards for ERISA-prohibited transaction claims, say attorneys at Groom Law.

  • How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark

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    All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Series

    Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: UK Awards Versus EU Judgments

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    The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' recent refusal to enforce a €855 million Spanish judgment inconsistent with earlier binding arbitral awards in England provides crucial guidance for practitioners navigating the complexities of cross-border disputes involving arbitration agreements and sovereign states, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • Opinion

    No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

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