Organisation: World Trade Organization

KCAB International has appointed Seung Wha Chang, a professor at Seoul National University School of Law and a specialist in international trade and arbitration, as its new chairman. 

19 April 2024

Jo Feldman, a former Australian government lawyer who helped to defend the state in its first investment arbitration, has been promoted to partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Perth.

13 July 2022

Haneul Jung has left his role as director of trade disputes at South Korea’s ministry of trade to become an independent arbitrator based in Seoul.

12 July 2022

Ahead of the next conference in October, representatives of the China Arbitration Association in Taipei look back on the 2021 Taipei International Conference on Arbitration and Mediation, including discussion of "the mutually dependent yet somewhat detached relationship between Taiwan and the international community".

24 May 2022

Argentina has failed in a bid to disqualify the entire tribunal hearing a two-decade-old ICSID claim brought by US energy company AES Corporation.

08 April 2022

After announcing it is ceasing all work associated with the Russian state, Herbert Smith Freehills has withdrawn as counsel to a Gazprom subsidiary in an US$8 billion Energy Charter Treaty claim against the European Union over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

18 March 2022

Qatari media group beIN has been barred from raising piracy allegations against a Saudi broadcaster as a counterclaim in UK proceedings to enforce a DIFC-LCIA award.

25 October 2021

Nine new panels have been formed at ICSID in recent weeks, including a first-time appointment for former Spanish government lawyer Antolín Fernández Antuña.

22 October 2021

Saudi Arabia is lifting its ban on Qatari state-backed broadcaster beIN Sport, paving the way for the potential settlement of a billion-dollar investment treaty dispute and a UK arbitration over the purchase of an English football club.

07 October 2021

A panel at the ASIL annual meeting simulated oral argument on whether a BIT’s public health and essential security interests clause provides a defence to treaty claims arising out of pandemic curfews, and whether such an exception can deprive a tribunal of jurisdiction. Ina Popova and Alma Mozetič, partner and associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, report. 

01 October 2021