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Fellas, Abu Dhabi centre and Latham win at largest ever GAR awards
John Fellas, arbitrateAD and Latham & Watkins all picked up prizes at this year’s GAR Awards – which also saw three firms win our inaugural regional practice awards and Brigitte Stern honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
11 April 2025
The GAR 30 and Power Index revealed
Global Arbitration Review has unveiled its annual ranking of the world’s leading international arbitration practices.
11 April 2025
GAR 100 data report: have IA firms been busy or quiet?
This year’s GAR 30 table saw “total hearings” – ie, the number of hearings captured by the table – hit a seven-year low, while some of our more forward-looking metrics gather pace.
10 April 2025
UniCredit fails to overturn Gazprom’s Russian injunctions
A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.
10 April 2025
Trump’s tariffs – the legal fallout
After US president Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariff policy put the world on the brink of a global trade war, Mark Mangan and Gillian Lee of boutique firm Lindsay Francis & Mangan consider the types of disputes that could arise – and whether that includes investment treaty cases.
10 April 2025
Renaissance Capital loses bid to restrain Russian suits
The Court of Appeal in London has refused to restrain Russian litigation against entities linked to the Renaissance Capital group to enforce an LCIA arbitration clause, saying it had been “deliberately kept in the dark” about the relationship between the party seeking the injunction and the defendants in Russia.
10 April 2025
Colombian refinery investors return to ICSID
Colombia is facing a second ICSID claim by a pair of US investors in a troubled oil refinery upgrade project – as an investor in another dispute with the state fails in a novel request for rectification of a dissenting opinion.
09 April 2025
Azerbaijan defeats ECT claim over oilfield sale
An ICSID tribunal has declined to hear a Georgian businessman’s US$700 million claim against Azerbaijan over alleged interference in the sale of his stake in an onshore oilfield.
09 April 2025
Fieldfisher promotes three
Fieldfisher has promoted Mehmet Baysan, Rebecca McKee and Elora Mukherjee to the partnership in London.
08 April 2025
Indian arbitrators behind “copied and pasted” award come to light
The Singapore Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to annul an ICC award in an Indian railway dispute because large portions of it were “copied and pasted” from awards in related cases – while taking the unusual step of naming the arbitrators.
08 April 2025