2/25/2025 5:23:29 PM The Arbitration Act 2025 Receives Royal Assent By Ashley Jones Oliver Marsden The long-anticipated reforms to the Arbitration Act 1996 have officially made it into law, with the Arbitration Act 2025 (the 2025 Act)...
2/6/2025 4:03:58 PM Shifting grounds: the trends reshaping international arbitration By Ashley Jones Shifting grounds: the trends reshaping international arbitration International arbitration is undergoing transformative changes at a...
1/20/2025 9:50:38 AM The KSA Civil Transactions Law Applied: Exceptions to Retrospective Effect By Amani Khalifa Kamel Diab The Civil Transactions Law (the CTL) enacted by Royal Decree No M/191 (the Royal Decree) has been in full effect for over a year, seeding...
12/12/2024 11:47:51 AM Adoption of the modernised Energy Charter Treaty: retaining the key role of cross-border investment in the energy transition By Boris Kasolowsky Carsten Wendler Alexandra van der Meulen Gregorio Pettazzi Veronika Timofeeva Domen Tursic +3 more... Show less The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has long been the cornerstone of investment protection in the energy sector, offering enhanced legal...
12/5/2024 10:14:05 AM Mediation of disputes involving States – Freshfields’ Annual Public International Law Seminar By Will Thomas Alexandra van der Meulen Joshua Kelly Camille Strosser +1 more... Show less On Tuesday 22 October 2024, an audience of government and private sector advisers, international law practitioners and academics attended...
9/27/2024 9:48:49 AM UK Supreme Court confirms the circumstances in which UK anti-suit injunctions are available in support of foreign-seated arbitrations By Ali Kirby-Harris Eid-Daniel Jadon Maxim Pyrkov Flavia Williams Jack Harrison Tobias Messervy-Whiting +3 more... Show less On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC following an earlier...
9/2/2024 11:56:15 AM Major hurdle cleared: US courts have jurisdiction to examine enforcement actions of intra-EU awards By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Lee Rovinescu Ruth Montiel Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) issued a landmark ruling on 16 August 2024 with significant...
8/21/2024 1:13:30 PM ICSID Background Paper on Compliance and Enforcement of Awards: Valuable insights on the monetisation of ICSID claims By Noiana Marigo Carsten Wendler Marta García Bel Gregorio Pettazzi Rosario Galardi Gonzalo Salazar +3 more... Show less The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) plays a vital role in facilitating the resolution of disputes...
7/23/2024 7:13:43 AM New EU Measures to Protect European Parties from Legal Actions and Expropriations in Russia By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Leane Meyer Gonzalo Salazar Valerio Letizia +3 more... Show less As part of the 14th package of sanctions against Russia adopted on 24 June 2024 as Regulation 2024/1745, the EU has introduced three...
7/1/2024 8:47:22 AM EU initiates second dispute settlement procedure with Algeria over trade restrictions – with implications for potential investment arbitrations By Alexandra van der Meulen Alexander Grimm Rahman Apalara The European Commission announced in June 2024 that it has started a dispute settlement procedure with Algeria under the 2002 EU-Algeria...
6/5/2024 8:09:52 AM AI and Arbitration: The Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Guidelines on the Use of AI in Arbitration By Elliot Friedman Marta García Bel Veronika Timofeeva Desmond Chong +1 more... Show less Introduction The Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC) recently published its first edition of Guidelines on the use of...
6/4/2024 1:35:04 PM Enforcement of intra-EU awards in the US: A further step towards more certainty By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Lee Rovinescu Ruth Montiel Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) has issued a decision that casts a positive light on the...