International Arbitration

  • January 24, 2024

    Amyris Says Claim Releases Needed For Post-Ch. 11 Success

    Biotechnology company Amyris Inc. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday it needs to eliminate potential shareholder claims in order to emerge from its Chapter 11 case as a successful company.

  • January 24, 2024

    Apartment, Insurers Settle Stalled Construction Coverage Row

    A Tampa, Florida, apartment complex owner and its insurers settled their dispute in federal court over coverage for delayed construction after mediation, they said Wednesday in a joint settlement notice.

  • January 24, 2024

    India's Zee Pushes Sony To Withdraw $10B Deal Termination

    Zee Entertainment on Wednesday issued a statement calling on Sony Group's India unit to "immediately withdraw" the termination of its agreement to buy Zee for $10 billion, adding that it has approached India's National Company Law Tribunal for assistance in closing the deal.

  • January 24, 2024

    Investors Seek Upfront Payment In Spain's €120M Energy Row

    Two investors urged an English court on Wednesday to make Spain's challenge to a €120 million ($131 million) arbitral award for slashing its economic incentives for renewable energy investors conditional on the state paying the full amount upfront.

  • January 23, 2024

    Australia, US, UK Sanction Russian Over Medibank Hack

    Officials from Australia, the U.S. and the United Kingdom revealed Tuesday that they had sanctioned a Russian national believed to have played an integral role in a 2022 cyberattack that hit Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd., marking the first time the three nations have made such a coordinated strike. 

  • January 23, 2024

    50 Cent Can Look At Ex-Liquor Boss's Assets For $7M Award

    A Connecticut bankruptcy judge is allowing rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's cognac company to examine assets belonging to its former brand manager, a move that could help the artist behind "In Da Club" recover a roughly $7 million judgment for claims accusing the now-insolvent ex-employee of stealing from the business.

  • January 23, 2024

    $57M Morocco Hotel Award Can't Be Enforced, 3rd Circ. Hears

    An investment firm urged the Third Circuit on Monday not to force it to pay a $57 million arbitral award issued against its former subsidiary following a dispute over a mismanaged luxury hotel, saying the suit is an act of desperation by a hotel owner with nowhere else to turn.

  • January 23, 2024

    Oligarchs May Be Exploiting Art Facilities To Dodge Sanctions

    Facilities storing valuable artwork should be on the lookout for designated Russian individuals who may have squirreled away pieces in order to evade international sanctions, the National Crime Agency warned Tuesday.

  • January 22, 2024

    2nd Circ. Tosses Arbitration Ruling In Ousted Chair's Suit

    The Second Circuit on Monday vacated an order refusing to halt arbitration initiated by the ousted former chairperson of software investment company The Resource Group International Ltd., who was forced to resign in late 2021 following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal.

  • January 22, 2024

    DC Circ. Mulls Enforcing $486M Award Against Djibouti

    The D.C. Circuit spent the better part of an hour Monday morning trying to sort out the intricacies of a dispute between the Republic of Djibouti and a Dubai-based state-owned shipping coordinator over a $486 million arbitral award.

  • January 22, 2024

    Sony Ignites Potential Legal Battle In Nix Of $10B Zee Merger

    Sony Group's India unit said Monday it has terminated its planned $10 billion merger with Zee Entertainment after the two sides failed to close the deal by a final deadline, although Zee claimed it doesn't owe a related $90 million termination fee and threatened potential "legal action."

  • January 22, 2024

    Skyscraper's Ties To Laundering Cut After Sale, Judge Told

    Two Miami businesspeople told a Florida federal judge that a pair of Ukrainian oligarchs lost their investment in a Louisville, Kentucky, skyscraper when an entity turned over the deed to avoid foreclosure on the property in 2018, countering the government's claim of a connection to a money laundering scheme.

  • January 22, 2024

    Zimbabwe Can't Escape $125M Award In England

    England's High Court has nixed the Republic of Zimbabwe's bid to set aside an order enforcing a $125 million arbitral award against it, finding the country's argument that it was immune from the jurisdiction of the English courts was "irrelevant."

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Lima Takes Dispute Over Arbitrator Complaint To DC Circ.

    Peru's capital city of Lima is appealing a D.C. federal judge's order directing the city to turn over a criminal complaint it filed against arbitrators adjudicating claims against it related to a highway project and concession contract, maintaining that the judge issued the order before considering the city's immunity defenses.

  • January 19, 2024

    22-Year ICSID Vet Proposed To Succeed Retiring Kinnear

    World Bank Group President Ajay Banga has proposed that a 22-year veteran of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes replace Secretary-General Meg Kinnear when she steps down from her position later this year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Thales Looks To Halt Sale Of Avionics JV While Arb. Plays Out

    A New York federal judge Friday ordered defense contractor L3 Technologies to appear before him next month to defend itself in litigation filed by French aerospace firm Thales over the contested sale of L3's majority stake in the companies' aviation electronics joint venture.

  • January 19, 2024

    Winston & Strawn Dodges Sanctions In NC Pharma Fight

    A North Carolina pharmaceutical company's attempt to sanction a Polish drugmaker and its attorneys at Winston & Strawn LLP over allegedly duplicative litigation involving a consulting agreement that tanked is "misguided," a federal judge said in an order denying the request.

  • January 18, 2024

    RICO Suit In $92M Russian Award Feud May Be Trimmed

    Seven months after a Russian businessman convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to let him forge a path via U.S. civil racketeering law to try to enforce a $92 million arbitral award, a California federal judge has now teed up significant parts of his lawsuit for the chopping block.

  • January 18, 2024

    Chinese Co. Says Arbiter Failed To Disclose Pro-Amazon Past

    A Chinese third-party seller on Amazon has asked a New York federal judge to reconsider confirming an arbitration award favoring the retail giant after the online marketplace tossed it from the platform while freezing $50,000 in sales, saying new evidence shows partiality and misconduct by the arbitrator.

  • January 18, 2024

    SEC, US Trustee Object To Releases In Amyris' Ch. 11 Plan

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Trustee's Office have expressed new concerns about nonconsensual third-party releases in biotechnology company Amyris' Chapter 11 plan, arguing that such releases are only allowed in extraordinary circumstances that were not met by the debtor.

  • January 18, 2024

    Yelp Ends TM Suit Over Yelp.ai Domain Name After Settlement

    Crowd-sourced business review platform Yelp Inc. has voluntarily dismissed its trademark infringement suit against a California man accused of cybersquatting on a domain for Yelp's artificial intelligence product after settling out of court.

  • January 18, 2024

    Canada To Challenge US Lumber Duties Under Trade Pact

    Canada renewed its calls for a panel of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to rule against duties on Canadian softwood lumber after the U.S. Court of International Trade declined to sunset the five-year tariffs last November.

  • January 18, 2024

    US Sanctions Emirati Shipper For Oil Price Cap Violations

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday sanctioned a United Arab Emirates-based owner of a ship that transported Russian crude oil above a $60 per barrel price cap, marking the department's first oil price cap enforcement action of the new year.

Expert Analysis

  • Perspectives

    A Judge's Pitch To Revive The Jury Trial

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    Ohio state Judge Pierre Bergeron explains how the decline of the jury trial threatens public confidence in the judiciary and even democracy as a whole, and he offers ideas to restore this sacred right.

  • It All Comes Down To Choice Of Law In Nazi-Looted Art Case

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in a nearly 20-year ownership battle over a Nazi-looted painting shows the court lacked adequate guidance on how California's choice-of-law rule should be applied to stolen property and that the choice of law — between California or Spain — will likely determine whose claim to the painting prevails, says Kevin Ray at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Opinion

    Plea For A New Int'l Tribunal For Russia's Crime Of Aggression

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    Legal experts worldwide should support the International Bar Association and other organizations calling for a United Nations special criminal tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, or risk standing by as war atrocities and threats to global security increase, says Olga Kostina at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.

  • How To Recognize And Recover From Lawyer Loneliness

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    Law can be one of the loneliest professions, but there are practical steps that attorneys and their managers can take to help themselves and their peers improve their emotional health, strengthen their social bonds and protect their performance, says psychologist and attorney Traci Cipriano.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Should Be Mandatory

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    Despite the Appellate Rules Committee's recent deferral of the issue of requiring third-party litigation funding disclosure, such a mandate is necessary to ensure the even-handed administration of justice across all cases, says David Levitt at Hinshaw.

  • Recalling USWNT's Legal PR Playbook Amid World Cup Bid

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    As the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team strives to take home another World Cup trophy, their 2022 pay equity settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation serves as a good reminder that winning in the court of public opinion can be more powerful than a victory inside the courtroom, says Hector Valle at Vianovo.

  • Tools To Fight Delay From Arbitrability Appeals After Coinbase

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent Coinbase v. Bielski decision mentioned a series of procedural tools litigants facing an automatic stay due to a Section 16(a) appeal can use to mitigate resulting harms and costs from the delay, and counsel should weigh the potential benefits and risks of these options, say Glenn Chappell and Spencer Hughes at Tycko & Zavareei.

  • Senate Hearing Highlights Antitrust Hazards In PGA-LIV Deal

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    The U.S. Senate's recent questioning of PGA Tour COO Ron Price on the proposed deal with LIV Golf and its release of a dossier of framework agreements covered a variety of issues that could exacerbate antitrust concerns, including the predatory purchasing theory of competitive harm, free-riding and alternate funding, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • What Venezuelan Gold Fight Means For UK One Voice Doctrine

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    The Court of Appeal's judgment in Deutsche Bank v. Central Bank of Venezuela clarifies the application of the "one voice" doctrine to foreign court judgments, highlighting that the reasoning depends on the recognition or nonrecognition of a head of state or government that is contrary to the U.K. government's position, say lawyers at Latham.

  • What's Causing EU-US Impasse On Steel And Aluminum

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    The EU and the U.S. have made limited progress in negotiating for a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum, and they face high obstacles to meeting the fast-approaching October deadline, say attorneys at Akin.

  • Perspectives

    Mallory Gives Plaintiffs A Better Shot At Justice

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    Critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern claim it opens the door to litigation tourism, but the ruling simply gives plaintiffs more options — enabling them to seek justice against major corporations in the best possible court, say Rayna Kessler and Ethan Seidenberg at Robins Kaplan.

  • How Conflict Management Can Prevent Arbitration Disputes

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    Recent International Chamber of Commerce guidance highlights that thinking beyond traditional arbitration and litigation can deliver huge benefits for businesses, which should be proactive in utilizing mediation, evaluations and expert determinations to expedite resolution and reduce costs, says Jennifer Haywood at Serle Court.

  • Rare UK Ruling Offers Clarity On Business-To-Consumer Arb.

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    In an unusual ruling, the High Court recently refused to enforce a foreign-seated arbitration award in Payward v. Chechetkin — as doing so would be contrary to public policy — which is an important reminder for businesses to tailor dispute resolution provisions to the needs of specific consumers, say Charlie Morgan and Elizabeth Kantor at Herbert Smith.

  • Courts Can Overturn Deficient State Regulations, Too

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    While suits challenging federal regulations have become commonplace, such cases against state agencies are virtually nonexistent, but many states have provisions that allow litigants to bring suit for regulations with inadequate cost-benefit analyses, says Reeve Bull at the Virginia Office of Regulatory Management.

  • Tales From The Trenches Of Remote Depositions

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    As practitioners continue to conduct depositions remotely in the post-pandemic world, these virtual environments are rife with opportunities for improper behavior such as witness coaching, scripted testimony and a general lack of civility — but there are methods to prevent and combat these behaviors, say Jennifer Gibbs and Bennett Moss at Zelle.

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