International Arbitration

  • February 24, 2026

    Heirs Push DC Circ. To Rehear Nazi Art Expropriation Case

    The descendants of a Hungarian Jewish art collector trying to recover a Nazi-looted art collection have asked the full D.C. Circuit to rehear their appeal, arguing that a three-judge panel of the court erred in affirming a lower court's dismissal of their lawsuit.

  • February 24, 2026

    Tariff-Related Disputes May Go Beyond Just Refunds

    In addition to the likely chaotic refund process to follow last week's bombshell U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Trump administration's broad tariff regime, the decision could also result in a wide range of private commercial disputes, and possibly even investment treaty claims against the U.S.

  • February 24, 2026

    Mishcon Denies It Was Negligent In Administration Row

    Mishcon de Reya LLP has denied acting negligently when it advised two former directors of a brand development business to place the holding company and its U.K. arm into administration.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Wary Of Broad Reading Of Cuba Expropriation Law

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared inclined to erect guardrails around a federal law allowing U.S. victims of property seizures by the Cuban government to seek damages, in a pair of cases involving damages that could exceed $1 billion and claimants that include Exxon Mobil Corp.

  • February 23, 2026

    South Korea Wins Rethink Of $48.5M Hedge Fund Award

    South Korea persuaded a London court Monday to partly set aside a $48.5 million arbitration award over claims that the country's former president and senior officials unlawfully interfered in an $8 billion merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Won't Review Russian's Fugitive Label

    A Russian woman accused of helping an oligarch evade sanctions imposed by former President Barack Obama won't get a chance to contest her fugitive status at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices declined to review her case Monday.

  • February 23, 2026

    Supreme Court Rejects Cafe's Petition Over $2.86M Grant

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Georgia cafe's petition seeking guidance on the standards by which arbitral awards can be vacated, after the Eleventh Circuit refused to revive its claims against a bank that returned a $2.86 million COVID-19-era grant on suspicion of fraud.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Reject Eni Natural Gas Project Feud

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined Italian energy giant Eni's bid to review a New York appellate court decision that it says "stretched the claim preclusion doctrine beyond all constitutional bounds," in a long-running and multifaceted dispute stemming from a deal over a billion-dollar Mississippi liquefied natural gas processing facility.

  • February 20, 2026

    Lebanese Bank Challenges NY Jurisdiction In Terrorism Suit

    A Lebanese bank is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit's finding that it is subject to the personal jurisdiction of New York courts on claims over alleged assistance to Hezbollah by a bank it acquired, a decision that it says "entrenches a deep conflict among the lower courts."

  • February 20, 2026

    Carpatsky Seeks Baker Hughes Docs In $150M Award Row

    Carpatsky Petroleum Corp. asked a Texas federal court Friday to order energy giant Baker Hughes to respond to its document requests as it looks to enforce a $150 million arbitral award against Ukraine's largest oil company, OJSC Ukrnafta.

  • February 20, 2026

    DeLorean Says $4.2M Award Dispute Has No Houston Ties

    The DeLorean Motor Co. argues that a $4.2 million international arbitral award granted to an Italian design firm over a contract dispute for work on a reimagined version of the company's storied sports car has no business being litigated in a Houston federal court.

  • February 20, 2026

    Up Next At High Court: Cuban Seizures & Removal Deadlines

    The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its February oral argument session by hearing cases that could expand or limit the availability of damages for U.S. victims of property seized by the Cuban government and a defendant's chance to remove state court cases to federal court.

  • February 20, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Squire Patton

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP convinced an international tribunal last year to toss a $2.1 billion claim against Slovakia, in part by showing that the claimant's employees had faked injuries allegedly caused by the police and others, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2026

    Burford Capital Targeted For Docs In German Funding Feud

    A German entity is accusing Burford Capital LLC of improperly trying to dodge information requests in a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation by citing an underlying arbitration clause, despite being a nonsignatory and the Third Circuit shutting down the arbitration bid last year.

  • February 19, 2026

    Funder Longford Wins Patent Litigation Settlement Dispute

    Litigation funder Longford Capital has prevailed in arbitration relating to a dispute with Arigna Technology Ltd. over a settlement that ended certain patent litigation, according to documents filed in Delaware federal court.

  • February 19, 2026

    Attys React To Test Of Free Speech At Winter Olympics

    The Winter Olympics in Milan have delivered the expected drama of national and individual success and defeat, but for sports law experts, one Ukrainian athlete's expulsion stood as a test of the rules governing political protest and personal expression.

  • February 19, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's international arbitration lawyers scored a key discovery victory for client Exxon Mobil Corp. in a €20 billion ($23.74 billion) dispute over gas production in the Netherlands and successfully defended Ukraine against a $100 million investment treaty claim brought by a Russian-American businessman, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2026

    Engineering Co. Fights $2.4B Award In Colombia Project Row

    Amec Foster Wheeler has asked ICSID to annul an arbitration award a tribunal handed out after rejecting its claims against Colombia over a $2.4 billion liability imposed by its regulators, saying its arguments were wrongly deemed inadmissible.

  • February 18, 2026

    Equifax's Bid To Arbitrate 'Too Clever By Half,' Judge Says

    Equifax waived its right to arbitrate a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the income and employment verification market, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, calling the credit reporting agency's post-complaint addition of an arbitration provision in its user agreement a legal tactic "too clever by half."

  • February 18, 2026

    Liability Up First In ExxonMobil Suit Over Dutch Gas Phaseout

    An international tribunal will consider as an initial matter whether the Netherlands is liable in a politically sensitive dispute with a Belgian ExxonMobil unit over the phaseout of gas extraction in Europe's largest gas field before moving on to damages, according to an order made public on Wednesday.

  • February 18, 2026

    Eversheds Hires International Arbitration Partner In Bucharest

    Eversheds Sutherland has added to its cross‑border disputes capabilities in Europe, saying it has appointed a longtime international arbitration lawyer to work in the firm's Bucharest office.

  • February 18, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Freshfields

    Freshfields LLP scored a historic win in the world of international arbitration in December 2024, when it secured for Austrian construction company Strabag SE the first-ever investment treaty award against Germany, earning the law firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 17, 2026

    $500M Medical Glove Feud Must Be Arbitrated, Court Hears

    A medical gloves supplier is arguing that a Malaysian exporter must arbitrate its $500 million fraud and breach of contract suit after the two had a falling out stemming from a massive COVID-19-era pact aimed at supplying repackaged nitrile gloves to Walmart.

  • February 17, 2026

    No Need To Reopen Asbestos Suit, Insurance Exchange Says

    An insurance exchange for the trucking industry has told a California federal judge he does not need to reopen its case against a group of reinsurers as the parties battle whether to remove a "side-switching" arbitrator, explaining that a New York state court will likely rule soon on the issue.

  • February 17, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP helped Panama fend off a $2 billion claim asserted by a subsidiary of Canada-based First Quantum Minerals after the company's concession for one of the world's largest copper mines was ruled unconstitutional, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

    Author Photo

    As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

    Author Photo

    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

    Author Photo

    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Series

    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • EU-US Data Transfer Ruling Offers Reassurance To Cos.

    Author Photo

    The European Union General Court’s recent upholding of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in Latombe v. European Commission, although subject to appeal, provides companies with legal certainty for the first time by allowing the transfer of European Economic Area personal data without relying on alternative mechanisms, say lawyers at Wilson Sonsini.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

    Author Photo

    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

  • Israeli Ruling Shows A Non-EU ICSID Enforcement Approach

    Author Photo

    An Israeli district court's recent decision declining to enforce an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes award served as a prominent testing ground for how a non-European Union jurisdiction approaches the enforcement of an intra-EU award against an EU member state, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray’s Inn.

  • Series

    Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

    Author Photo

    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

  • Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes

    Excerpt from Practical Guidance
    Author Photo

    Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

    Author Photo

    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

  • Series

    Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

  • AI Risks Legal Sector Must Consider In Dispute Resolution

    Author Photo

    Artificial intelligence presents significant opportunities to lawyers and decision-makers navigating increasingly data-heavy legal proceedings, but two recent cases provide a sobering reminder of the potential for misuse, say lawyers at White & Case.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

    Author Photo

    Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

Want to publish in Law360?


Submit an idea

Have a news tip?


Contact us here
Can't find the article you're looking for? Click here to search the International Arbitration archive.