International Arbitration

  • December 16, 2024

    Knicks Blame Raptors Arbitration Delay On Silver 'Conflict'

    The New York Knicks reiterated their claim that National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver is biased against the franchise and incapable of arbitrating their data-theft dispute with the Toronto Raptors, accusing Silver of a "clear conflict of interest.''

  • December 16, 2024

    High Court Bar's Future: Latham's Roman Martinez

    Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins LLP approaches oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court as if they were just another dinner with family or friends — people he's argued with since he was a kid.

  • December 16, 2024

    Freshfields IA Pro Goes Solo With NY Practice

    A nearly decade-long Freshfields attorney in New York and Madrid has launched a solo practice offering independent counsel and arbitrator services, harnessing her experience working on more than 25 commercial and investment disputes.

  • December 13, 2024

    La. Judge Won't Reopen Hurricane Damage Case

    A Louisiana federal judge has declined to reopen litigation over millions of dollars of hurricane damage in light of new precedent from the state's top court on the arbitration of such disputes, citing conflicting guidance from the Fifth Circuit.

  • December 13, 2024

    Devas Gets Help As it Looks To Revive $1.3B Award Fight

    An Indian satellite communications company that is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its efforts to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award against a state-owned Indian company received a boost on Wednesday as numerous amici, including the Biden administration, backed its position in the litigation.

  • December 13, 2024

    ByteDance Ex-Coder Perjured Himself In Suit, Judge Finds

    A California federal judge imposed terminating sanctions against a former engineer at TikTok's parent company, finding he committed perjury in a suit alleging he was wrongly fired and ordered the dispute to arbitration.

  • December 12, 2024

    North Koreans Infiltrated US IT Jobs In $88M Scheme, Feds Say

    Fourteen North Koreans have been indicted in Missouri federal court on charges related to a long-running scheme to obtain remote information technology jobs at U.S. companies and nonprofit organizations, raking in at least $88 million for the regime, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    Russia Must Face $35M Arbitration Award Suit

    Russia must face a lawsuit brought by 11 Ukrainian gas companies aiming to enforce a nearly $35 million arbitration award born out of Russia's invasion of Crimea, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.

  • December 12, 2024

    DOJ Seizes Rydox Cybercrime Site, Charges Administrators

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging two Kosovo citizens who ran the illicit website Rydox with multiple criminal counts after the U.S. government seized the website, which has been used by cybercriminals to buy and sell thousands of Americans' personal information and dating profiles.

  • December 12, 2024

    Colombia Looks To Nix $380M Telefónica Award

    Colombia is challenging a $380 million arbitral award issued last month to Telefónica SA following a dispute over the reversion of assets held by the Spanish company's Colombian telecommunications business, prompting a provisional stay of enforcement while the annulment proceedings play out.

  • December 12, 2024

    11th Circ. Won't Rehear Guatemala Power Plant Fight

    The Eleventh Circuit will not reconsider its decision refusing to vacate an arbitral award issued following an ill-fated Guatemalan power plant construction project, rejecting arguments that the tribunal improperly turned a blind eye to alleged corruption underlying the project.

  • December 12, 2024

    US Takes Hard Line Against WTO Litigating Security Matters

    The Biden administration issued a stern warning against the dangers of litigating national security matters at the World Trade Organization, stressing that allowing international tribunals to decide the legality of a sovereign country's security policies is untenable.

  • December 12, 2024

    Spain Can't Enforce €855M Oil Spill Award Against Insurers

    Spain has failed in its latest attempt to enforce an €855 million ($898 million) Spanish judgment against maritime insurers over a huge oil spill off its coast, as an appeals court found on Thursday that it was prevented from doing so by English arbitration.

  • December 11, 2024

    AADI Enlists NY Court To Enforce Cancer Drug Award

    California-based AADI Bioscience Inc. is asking a New York federal court to enforce an arbitral award rejecting a more than $15 million claim asserted by a Hong Kong biopharmaceutical company following a dispute over a deal to market a new cancer drug in China.

  • December 11, 2024

    Gold Miner Sarama Hits Burkina Faso With $115M Claim

    A gold exploration and development company with operations in West Africa said Wednesday it has commenced arbitration proceedings against Burkina Faso, seeking damages of AU$180 million ($115 million) in a dispute over the state's alleged expropriation of a mining project.

  • December 11, 2024

    DC Judge Enforces $325M Arbitral Award Against Argentina

    Argentina must pay a $391 million arbitral award issued following a 15-year-old dispute over the renationalization of the country's state-owned airline, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled on Tuesday.

  • December 11, 2024

    Cross-Border Criminal Antitrust Trial Will Stay In Houston

    A case against a group of defendants accused of using violence to monopolize the cross-border sale of used cars from the U.S. into Central America must stay in Houston, a federal judge ruled this week.

  • December 10, 2024

    UpHealth Says Glocal Execs Stalling On $115M Award Suit

    Digital health services company UpHealth has asked an Illinois federal judge to favor its efforts to pin down assets belonging to executives of Indian healthcare firm Glocal as it looks to enforce a $115 million arbitral award, saying the respondents are engaging in "obstructionist" conduct.

  • December 10, 2024

    Great-Grandson Brings Nazi-Looted Art Case Back To Justices

    A California man who has been trying for nearly two decades to get a Spanish museum to return a painting that the Nazis stole from his great-grandmother is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene for a second time after the Ninth Circuit again denied his request.

  • December 10, 2024

    Ex-CEO Argues Arbitrator's Failure To Disclose Sinks Award

    A former CEO of Canadian biopharmaceutical company FSD Pharma Inc. who sued after he was terminated is urging the Third Circuit to reverse a lower court's decision confirming an unfavorable Canadian arbitral award, asserting the arbitrator concealed an extensive prior relationship with the company.

  • December 10, 2024

    Warner Bros., Comcast Settle 'Harry Potter' TV Show Fight

    Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast's United Kingdom and European subsidiaries settled their contract dispute over co-production of a new "Harry Potter" television series Monday as part of a new long-term distribution deal between the two media giants.

  • December 09, 2024

    Honduras Looks To Duck $11B Claim From US Developer

    The Republic of Honduras has told the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes it objects to immediately facing a nearly $11 billion investor-state dispute before an ICSID tribunal, saying it will only consent to arbitration after local remedies are exhausted.

  • December 09, 2024

    Live Nation Denied Rehearing In 9th Circ. Arbitration Fight

    The full Ninth Circuit has refused to reconsider an appellate panel's recent decision invalidating Live Nation and Ticketmaster's choice of a digital arbitration startup for consumer antitrust claims over allegedly exorbitant ticket prices.

  • December 09, 2024

    Mexico Found Liable For Axing Oil Drilling Contract

    An International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tribunal has found that Mexico breached the North American Free Trade Agreement when a Mexican administrative court confirmed the termination of an oil drilling contract between the country's state-owned energy firm and Texas-based investors.

  • December 09, 2024

    High Court Won't Hear Zimmer Biomet Royalties Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shot down Zimmer Biomet Holdings' challenge to the Seventh Circuit's finding that the company shouldn't have stopped paying royalties on knee replacement devices it developed using an orthopedic surgeon's various patents after those patents expired.

Expert Analysis

  • Int'l Treaties May Aid Investors Amid UK Rail Renationalization

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    The recently introduced Passenger Railway Services Bill seeks to return British railways to public ownership without compensating affected investors, a move that could trigger international investment treaty protections for obligation breaches, says Philipp Kurek at Signature Litigation.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Hyperlinked Documents

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    Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Loper Bright Limits Federal Agencies' Ability To Alter Course

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle Chevron deference also effectively overrules its 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X, greatly diminishing agencies' ability to change regulatory course from one administration to the next, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Teaching Scuba Diving Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    As a master scuba instructor, I’ve learned how to prepare for the unexpected, overcome fears and practice patience, and each of these skills – among the many others I’ve developed – has profoundly enhanced my work as a lawyer, says Ron Raether at Troutman Pepper.

  • Lawyers Can Take Action To Honor The Voting Rights Act

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    As the Voting Rights Act reaches its 59th anniversary Tuesday, it must urgently be reinforced against recent efforts to dismantle voter protections, and lawyers can pitch in immediately by volunteering and taking on pro bono work to directly help safeguard the right to vote, says Anna Chu at We The Action.

  • Should Arbitrators Do More To Encourage Settlements?

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    In light of discussions on settlement in arbitration, there is a consensus that arbitrators in English-seated proceedings should play a greater role, but determining the extent of that involvement is difficult, as arbitrators can inadvertently place themselves in a position of potential conflict, say lawyers at Dentons.

  • 2nd Circ. Ruling May Limit Discovery In Int'l Arbitration

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    The Second Circuit's recent Webuild v. WSP decision, affirming a discovery order's nullification in arbitration between Webuild and the government of Panama, demonstrates courts' unwillingness to find that arbitral tribunals in investor-state cases fall within the scope of the discovery statute, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • How To Grow Marketing, Biz Dev Teams In A Tight Market

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    Faced with fierce competition and rising operating costs, firms are feeling the pressure to build a well-oiled marketing and business development team that supports strategic priorities, but they’ll need to be flexible and creative given a tight talent market, says Ben Curle at Ambition.

  • Indian Top Court Arb. Ruling May Be Anomaly, Not New Path

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    While the Indian Supreme Court's recent Delhi Metro decision invalidating an arbitral award could be viewed as a troubling departure from the country's efforts to position itself as an attractive arbitral seat, it may also be nothing more than an unexpected detour due to the underlying facts, say J.P. Duffy and Niyati Ahuja at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Rock Climbing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Rock climbing requires problem-solving, focus, risk management and resilience, skills that are also invaluable assets in my role as a finance lawyer, says Mei Zhang at Haynes and Boone.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Dance The Legal Standard Two-Step

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    From rookie brief writers to Chief Justice John Roberts, lawyers should master the legal standard two-step — framing the governing standard at the outset, and clarifying why they meet that standard — which has benefits for both the drafter and reader, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

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    Being A Luthier Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    When I’m not working as an appellate lawyer, I spend my spare time building guitars — a craft known as luthiery — which has helped to enhance the discipline, patience and resilience needed to write better briefs, says Rob Carty at Nichols Brar.

  • Lead Like 'Ted Lasso' By Embracing Cognitive Diversity

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    The Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” aptly illustrates how embracing cognitive diversity can be a winning strategy for teams, providing a useful lesson for law firms, which can benefit significantly from fresh, diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • Ambiguity Ruling Highlights Deference To Arbitral Process

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    A New York federal court’s recent ruling in Eletson v. Levona, which remanded an arbitral award for clarification, reflects that the ambiguity exception’s analysis is not static and may be applied even in cases where the award, when issued, was unambiguous, says arbitrator Myrna Barakat Friedman.

  • EU Investor-State Dispute Transparency Rules: Key Points

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    The European Union's recent vote to embrace greater transparency for investor-state arbitration will make managing newly public information more complex for all parties in a dispute — so it is important for stakeholders to understand the risks and opportunities involved, say Philip Hall, Tara Flores and Charles McKeon at Thorndon Partners.

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