April 20, 2022
Nigeria and an asset manager the country is seeking documents from have continued to clash over the scope of appropriate discovery in a $10 billion arbitration battle, with the African nation arguing the company is offering peanuts and hoping to avoid review.
November 06, 2020
Nigeria came up short on Friday as it sought discovery aimed at propping up bribery allegations relating to a nearly $10 billion arbitral award against it after a New York judge said the petition appeared to be an attempt to avoid U.S. Department of Justice scrutiny of its request.
October 27, 2020
Kobre & Kim could not persuade a New York judge to resolve whether it could be conflicted out of representing an engineering company that's trying to enforce a nearly $10 billion arbitral award against Nigeria, after the judge concluded that any decision he made would be an impermissible advisory opinion.
October 21, 2020
A dispute has arisen over whether Kobre & Kim could be conflicted out of representing an engineering company that's trying to enforce a nearly $10 billion arbitral award against Nigeria, after the firm offered a job to a U.K. lawyer who may have seen information that is confidential to the country.
September 09, 2020
Nigeria has urged a New York federal judge not to quash his earlier order allowing the country to seek information it claims will prove bribery underpinning a nearly $10 billion arbitral award against it, pointing to a recent decision in England that allows related litigation to proceed.
July 13, 2020
Nigeria is fighting a Manhattan asset manager's bid to quash an information request tied to alleged bribes underpinning a nearly $10 billion arbitral award, saying the American company can't seek to enforce a treaty that wouldn't bar the action anyway.
June 23, 2020
A Manhattan asset manager urged a New York federal court on Monday to quash subpoenas allowing Nigeria to target it for information relating to alleged bribes former officials took from a British Virgin Islands engineering firm, saying "strong grounds" exist to vacate the order.
May 15, 2020
A New York judge has granted Nigeria's petition to subpoena a Manhattan asset manager to aid the country's prosecution of former government officials who allegedly accepted bribes from a British Virgin Islands engineering firm, which later won a $9.8 billion arbitral award against the country.
May 13, 2020
Nigeria has opened another front in its bid to prove that a British Virgin Islands engineering firm paid bribes to secure a lucrative government contract that led to a $9.6 billion arbitral award, targeting a Manhattan asset manager that acquired an interest in the firm in 2018.