8/19/2025 12:34:56 PM Expanding the Legal Toolkit: The EU’s New Tools Against Sanctioned Russian Investors By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Leane Meyer Valerio Letizia Gonzalo Salazar +3 more... Show less On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its 18th sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Alongside a...
8/18/2025 8:43:28 AM Another major hurdle cleared: DC District Court enforces intra-EU ICSID Awards in the US By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Paige von Mehren Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less As discussed in our previous update, in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) removed...
8/8/2025 8:52:44 AM Freshfields Hosts Africa Arbitration Academy for Sixth Consecutive Year By Stephanie Mbonu Joshua Kelly Gregorio Pettazzi Thembela Ndwandwe Veronika Timofeeva Robert Colvin Camille Strosser +4 more... Show less On June 17 2025, Freshfields’ London office proudly hosted the 2025 cohort of the Africa Arbitration Academy (AAA), welcoming 27 mid to...
7/17/2025 1:46:22 PM Saudi Arabia Introduces New Measures to Advance International Arbitration By Amani Khalifa Kamel Diab Amr Omran Fulwah Alhamed Rawan Bahamran +2 more... Show less The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA) has announced a wide-ranging initiative of the Council of Ministers aimed at enhancing...
5/29/2025 1:08:02 PM German court denies Russian arbitral award recognition on the basis of EU sanctions By Clemens Treichl Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Hager Sameh +1 more... Show less Russia’s measures against so-called “unfriendly states” and consecutive sanctions packages from the EU, amongst others, have led to the...
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...