Organisation: Common Court of Justice and Arbitration

Ibrahim Fadlallah, who has died aged 81, was a leading Lebanese-French academic and arbitrator known for his handling of cases related to the Middle East and Africa and for initiating discussion of conflicts of culture in international arbitration. 

03 April 2024

Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick has promoted two members of its dispute resolution team to counsel – Gabriele Ruscalla in Paris and Michaël Houbben in Brussels.

23 October 2023

A French court has upheld the enforcement of an ICC award against Benin even though it was annulled by the courts at the seat, reasoning that the set-aside decision is irrelevant until it is itself recognised in France.

03 February 2022

Africa-focused lawyer Manuel Tomas has left his role as counsel at Eversheds Sutherland to join the partnership at Foley Hoag in Paris.

03 September 2021

Ivory Coast’s main domestic arbitral institution – the Cour d'Arbitrage de Côte d'Ivoire, or CACI – has suspended all its cases following the departure of its secretary general and the firing of its case administration team, GAR has learned.

13 January 2021

28 January 2020

The liquidators of a French transport and logistics group have applied to a US court to enforce an ICSID award against Guinea – three years after the bulk of its €110 million claim over a terminated port concession was dismissed.

13 August 2019

04 January 2019

Niger and a British Virgin Islands-registered company appear to have settled their dispute over a cancelled contract to produce electronic and biometric passports, leading them to jointly seek to vacate a judgment confirming a US$46 million award against the West African state.

24 July 2018

After being dreamt up during Paris Arbitration Week, a new non-profit organisation of young practitioners named AfricaArb has launched in the French capital, with the aim of furthering the development of arbitration as an efficient and accessible method of dispute resolution in Africa.

20 July 2018