Organisation: Santos

Leading Spanish arbitrator Juan Fernández-Armesto and a co-panellist have resigned from a fraught ICC dispute over the billion-dollar sale of a Brazilian pulp producer – saying they have been threatened with criminal prosecution by the respondent and its external lawyers. 

26 September 2024

A court in Laos has refused to allow a Macau-based gaming company to enforce its US$175 million ICC award against its former partners in a slot-machine club venture, saying the dispute had already been decided by the country’s courts.

23 July 2024

A US court has confirmed a Brazilian renewable energy company’s US$73 million ICC award against a Chinese manufacturer of solar panels.

14 June 2024

A subsidiary of Spain’s Telefónica says it has agreed to settle an ICC claim worth billions of dollars that it brought against Brazil’s telecoms regulator over a concession for landline services – as other operators pursue similar claims. 

29 May 2024

A Canadian miner says it intends to bring a treaty claim against Panama after the state cancelled its concessions at a copper and gold project – as a panel is formed to hear another mining group’s ICC claim against the state.   

02 April 2024

A Macau gaming company has won over US$175 million in an ICC claim against its former partners in a slot-machine club venture in Laos.

27 February 2024

New Zealand national James Herbert has been promoted to the partnership at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes in Paris.

09 February 2024

An ICSID committee has refused to annul an Energy Charter Treaty award ordering Spain to pay a Japanese investor more than €23.5 million over the state’s reforms to its renewable energy regime.

08 February 2024

A Japanese company has applied to a US court to enforce an ICSID award requiring Spain to pay over €23.5 million for changes to its incentives regime for solar power plants, putting the award in the public domain.

18 September 2023

The International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the international arm of the American Arbitration Association, has launched a survey to gather information on disputes in the technology, life sciences and intellectual property sectors – and the potential for arbitration to resolve them.

18 July 2023