March 15, 2023
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday restarted an international arbitration dispute in which the Peruvian capital city of Lima is attempting to nix a highway contractor's more than $131 million award, ordering both sides to submit revised motions to vacate or affirm the award with updated case law citations following a nearly three-year stay.
March 07, 2023
A D.C. federal judge on Monday indicated that her patience may be waning with the Peruvian capital city of Lima as it attempts to serve litigation seeking to nix a more than $131 million arbitral award, noting that the lawsuit has already been on hold for nearly three years.
January 24, 2023
An international tribunal has rejected the Peruvian city of Lima's attempts to void an allegedly corrupt highway construction contract that led to a more than $131 million arbitral award, instead awarding the contractor more than $7 million in additional lost profits.
June 10, 2022
A Peruvian highway contractor is arguing that delays in a nearly two-year-old lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., where it seeks to enforce a $131.5 million arbitral award against the city of Lima, have compromised what should be a summary proceeding in a highly regarded venue for international arbitration.
January 31, 2022
A Peruvian highway contractor cannot force the city of Lima to put up security as the two fight over the validity of a $117 million arbitral award issued to the contractor, after a federal judge ruled Monday that the city hadn't clearly waived its sovereign immunity rights.
January 12, 2022
A former Odebrecht unit that won $117 million in arbitration over a Peruvian highway contract is arguing that the city of Lima can't try to undo the award by claiming that the company's lawyers lied to the tribunal by denying allegations that the underlying highway contract was procured through bribery.
December 15, 2021
An infrastructure company owned by the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht is urging a D.C. federal judge to force the government of Lima, Peru, to put up security for an arbitral award currently totaling nearly $117 million with interest.
October 14, 2021
An infrastructure company owned by the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht says that a year of administrative delays pushed by the government of Lima, Peru, has denied it access to an arbitration award that has ballooned to more than $112 million and that enough is enough.
February 01, 2021
An infrastructure company formerly owned by the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht has urged a D.C. federal court to resume a $66 million award annulment initiated by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, arguing that the Peruvian city is trying to stifle its award enforcement efforts.
January 22, 2021
The city of Lima, Peru, asked a D.C. federal court to continue pausing its suit attempting to annul a $66 million arbitral award issued to an infrastructure company formerly owned by Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, a company Lima says is "notorious for corrupt practices," because proper procedures have not been followed yet.