March 31, 2026
A Delaware federal court rejected an investor's bid to escape litigation aimed at enforcing a $60 million arbitral award favoring the current owner of the Royal Mansour Hotel in Casablanca, pointing to a Third Circuit decision that reversed an earlier ruling by the lower court.
March 06, 2025
The owner of a luxury Casablanca hotel urged a Delaware federal court on Thursday not to toss its lawsuit looking to hold investors in its former hotel manager liable for a $60 million arbitral award, arguing that its complaint has a "wealth of detail" showing why they should be on the hook.
September 23, 2024
The Third Circuit has sent a decision over a $60 million arbitral award favoring the Royal Mansour Hotel's current owner back to a lower court for further consideration, saying the company has plausibly argued that it didn't cause the Moroccan establishment to fall into financial ruin.
August 09, 2023
A Delaware federal judge has refused to let the owner of a Moroccan hotel recoup a $60 million arbitral award from its former management firm's parent company, saying the attempt to pierce the corporate veil is an extreme step that's not justified by the ex-manager's failure to pay up.
September 30, 2022
A luxury hotel in Casablanca is resisting efforts by its former manager to escape liability for a nearly $60 million arbitral award, arguing in Delaware federal court that the manager's parent exercised direct control over its Moroccan subsidiary and used the unit as an alter ego.
September 19, 2022
The former parent company of the manager of a luxury hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, has asked a Delaware federal court to nix the hotel owner's bid to hold it liable for a nearly $60 million arbitral award, saying the owner hasn't met the criteria necessary to establish alter ego liability.
October 20, 2021
A Delaware federal court trimmed a Moroccan luxury hotel owner's suit looking to force Connecticut investment firm Starwood Capital Group to pay a €60 million ($70 million) arbitral award over an allegedly botched hotel management deal, saying Starwood and its subsidiary can't be held liable for a former subsidiary's breach of contract.
April 26, 2021
A U.K. High Court justice has dismissed an English accountant's challenge to an order compelling her deposition in a Delaware federal court case that seeks enforcement of a $60 million arbitration award against Starwood Capital Group Global I LLC.
March 29, 2021
A Moroccan hotel has urged a Delaware court to enforce a nearly $60 million arbitral award against Starwood Capital Group Global I LLC, saying the court already concluded the private investment firm can be held liable for the award based on an underlying breach of contract.
March 23, 2021
Private investment firm Starwood Capital Group Global I LLC has asked a Delaware federal court to toss litigation filed by a Moroccan hotel to enforce a nearly $60 million arbitral award, saying its Starman subsidiary can't be held liable for a former subsidiary's breach of contract.