November 13, 2024
Nigeria has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards mandates judicial enforcement of arbitration awards against sovereign nations for cases that arise solely from their roles as sovereigns.
September 03, 2024
Nigeria intends to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit decision nixing its sovereign immunity defense in litigation to enforce a $65 million arbitral award against it, arguing that the appellate opinion extends a circuit split on treaty interpretation.
August 14, 2024
A Ukrainian bank looking to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award against Russia has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to consider a decision issued last week by the D.C. Circuit rejecting Nigeria's sovereign immunity defense in another litigation over an arbitral award.
August 09, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Friday affirmed a ruling greenlighting litigation to enforce a $65 million arbitration award issued to a Chinese company after it was ousted from Nigeria, saying the country's sovereign immunity defense fails because it agreed to arbitrate the dispute.
April 22, 2024
The D.C. Circuit seemed skeptical on Monday of Nigeria's sovereign immunity defense against the enforcement of a $65 million arbitration award issued to a Chinese company after it was ousted from the western African nation.
April 16, 2024
Nigeria has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion clarifying the reach of a carveout in federal arbitration law helps to boost its case looking to nix enforcement of a nearly $70 million arbitral award on sovereign immunity grounds.
November 17, 2023
Nigeria is asking the D.C. Circuit to revive its sovereign immunity defense as it fights the enforcement of a roughly $65 million arbitral award to a Chinese company, claiming a lower court wrongly held that an investment treaty with China means it must face the company's litigation.
June 20, 2023
The D.C. Circuit requested on Tuesday a full briefing on litigation in which a Chinese investor is trying to hold Nigeria liable for a $70 million arbitral award, rejecting an attempt by the investment firm to hasten its enforcement lawsuit over Nigerian objections.
May 01, 2023
Nigeria must cover a $70 million award that arbitrators gave to a Chinese investment firm after it was ousted from the West African nation, the company told the D.C. Circuit on Friday, pressing its view that Nigerian authorities are liable under a 2001 investment treaty between Abuja and Beijing.
April 18, 2023
Nigeria says it cannot be responsible for satisfying a $70 million arbitral judgment that a Chinese investment company won after being ousted from the African nation in 2016, telling the D.C. Circuit that local authorities, not the national government, were involved in that affair.