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International Arbitration

  • July 31, 2025

    Eco Oro Wants Colombia Mining Damages Claim Revived

    Eco Oro Minerals Corp. said Thursday it will look to revive its damages claim against Colombia after an international tribunal found that the country had breached an underlying treaty by blocking the Canadian precious metals company's mining project to protect surrounding wetlands.

  • July 31, 2025

    Lloyd's, Loan Provider Settle $3M Pitcher Coverage Feud

    Lloyd's of London underwriters and loan service provider RockFence Baseball LLC have settled their dispute over coverage for the $3.16 million loan of a former Minnesota Twins pitcher, after a California federal judge ordered the parties into arbitration in January 2024.

  • July 31, 2025

    New Arbitration Act To Streamline UK Dispute Resolution

    A suite of reforms to the U.K.'s arbitration laws aimed at attracting more business to the country's legal sector took effect Friday, as the government enacted the first updates to the almost 30-year-old law.

  • July 31, 2025

    Arbitrators Nix $65M Georgia Port Project Claim

    The country of Georgia said Thursday that it has fended off a roughly $65 million claim asserted by a Dutch investor in a Black Sea deep-water port project that never came to fruition, a year after the country prevailed in a contract-based $1.5 billion arbitration over the same project.

  • July 30, 2025

    U.S. Co. Defends $1B Suit Over Nixed LNG Facility In Canada

    A U.S. company making a $1 billion claim against Canada over a stymied liquefied natural gas facility in Québec is urging an international tribunal not to toss the case on jurisdictional grounds, saying the country's objections are without merit.

  • July 30, 2025

    Samsung Gets Patent License At $1.05B After Arbitration

    Samsung will fork over $1.05 billion to license patents owned by a technology research firm covering wireless and video technology through 2030 after a group of arbitrators set the rate, according to federal securities filings.

  • July 30, 2025

    Peru Docs Bid In Toll Road Project Feud Improper, Court Told

    Asset manager Brookfield, law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and Scotiabank are fighting efforts by Peru to force them to turn over documents in a feud stemming from an allegedly corrupt toll road project, arguing that the country is attempting an end-run around a previously unsuccessful petition.

  • July 30, 2025

    Software Co. Says Founder Can't Escape $9M Award

    Software investment company The Resource Group International Ltd. on Monday asked a New York federal judge not to let its former chairman, Invisalign inventor Zia Chishti escape a $9 million arbitration award against him, arguing it's too late to challenge the judgment now that it's been confirmed by the court.

  • July 30, 2025

    Traders Say Sanctioned Firm Can't Swap Plaintiff In $2.5M Suit

    A company facing trade sanctions cannot swap out another entity as a plaintiff in its suit targeting a crude oil sales firm's owners as it looks to collect $2.5 million based on an arbitral award, the owners have argued in Connecticut state and federal court.

  • July 30, 2025

    BVI Co. Seeks OK Of $5.8M Cost Award In Telecoms Fight

    A British Virgin Islands company is asking a California federal court to enforce a $5.8 million cost award stemming from an arbitration dispute over a failed project to bring satellite broadband internet to sub-Saharan Africa.

  • July 29, 2025

    Hedge Fund Nets $54M In S. Korea Samsung Merger Fight

    South Korea has paid nearly $54 million owed under an arbitral award issued to a U.S. hedge fund in a dispute over a government bribery scandal that allegedly underpinned the $8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015, Seoul said on Tuesday.

  • July 29, 2025

    2nd Circ. Says Russian Helped Oligarch Dodge Sanctions

    A lower court correctly denied a Russian citizen's bid to dismiss an indictment purporting that she joined in a conspiracy to help an oligarch evade sanctions imposed by former President Barack Obama against people who contributed to the national emergency in Ukraine, a Second Circuit panel has found.

  • July 29, 2025

    Mexican Media Co. Wants Fox's Soccer Licensing Suit Tossed

    A Mexican media company facing contract breach claims from Fox Cable Network Services LLC over soccer broadcasting rights called on a California federal judge Monday to dismiss the case, asserting that the U.S. media giant's case is too thin and that litigation already underway in Mexico should take precedence.

  • July 29, 2025

    Insurer Says Misrepresentations Void Real Estate Co.'s Policy

    Material misrepresentations in a commercial real estate firm's insurance renewal application mean the insurer has no duty to defend the firm or a former director against a $6.5 million claim related to the sale of a client's properties, the insurer told an Indiana federal court.

  • July 28, 2025

    UpHealth Moves To Toss Glocal Ch. 11 Dispute

    Bankrupt medical tech company UpHealth is urging a Delaware bankruptcy judge to nix a $200 million adversary proceeding launched by Glocal Healthcare in a bitter feud over an ill-fated merger, accusing the Indian digital healthcare services platform of bad faith through a pattern of delay and obfuscation.

  • July 28, 2025

    Co-Leader Of 2 Gibson Dunn Practices Joins King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP has hired the former co-leader of two of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's practices who is joining it in Washington, D.C., to work on international disputes after more than two decades at his previous firm.

  • July 28, 2025

    Czech Republic Loses Latest Challenge To $350M Award

    A London appeals court on Monday rejected the Czech Republic's latest challenge to a $350 million award in favor of a blood plasma company owner, ruling that the businessman was still entitled to the award even though his company was not.

  • July 25, 2025

    Sports & Betting Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025

    Certain court cases have become staples on both the midyear and end-of-year must-watch lists in sports and betting at ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. One that seemed best positioned to finally fall off the list, as it turns out, is far from over: the multibillion-dollar NCAA settlement regarding name, image and likeness payments and revenue sharing with hundreds of thousands of college athletes. A handful of other suits from past years will also continue to bear watching through the end of 2025.

  • July 25, 2025

    Venezuela Urges Del. Judge To Reject $7B Citgo Sale

    Venezuela called on a Delaware federal judge to reject a Gold Reserve subsidiary's $7.4 billion bid to buy Citgo's parent company, arguing that the purchase price is well below half of the shares' fair market value of $18.6 billion.

  • July 25, 2025

    Russia Loses Bid To Nix Enforcement Of $63B Awards

    A Singapore court on Friday denied Russia's bid to dodge litigation seeking the enforcement of more than $63 billion in arbitral awards issued to former investors in Yukos Oil Co. 11 years ago, rejecting the Kremlin's argument that it never agreed to arbitrate the dispute.

  • July 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Punts $17M Drug Arbitration Case To 2nd Circ.

    The Federal Circuit said Friday it lacked jurisdiction over a dispute over a $16.6 million arbitral award between two drugmakers, ruling that because it was being asked to consider an arbitration issue and not a patent law issue, the Second Circuit must hear the case.

  • July 25, 2025

    Switzerland Faces $5B Claim After Credit Suisse Collapse

    Switzerland is facing another claim arising from the 2023 collapse of Credit Suisse and the write-down of some $17 billion worth of Additional Tier 1 bonds, as global law firm Holman Fenwick Willan LLP announced its intention to file a $5 billion investor-state claim against the country on behalf of a "substantial group" of bondholders.

  • July 24, 2025

    9th Circ. Urged Not To Let $1.3B India Award Suit Drag On

    Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an outlier Ninth Circuit decision refusing to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award against India, an Indian satellite communications company's shareholders are now urging the circuit court to minimize or nix briefing on issues left open by the justices.

  • July 24, 2025

    Celebrity Cruises Can't Arbitrate Sexual Assault Case

    A former Celebrity Cruises Inc. employee will not have to argue her sexual assault case in an arbitration proceeding because a federal act requires such claims to be brought before a court, a Florida federal judge has ruled.

  • July 24, 2025

    FedArb CEO Takes Full Ownership Of ADR Service

    California-based alternative dispute resolution service Federal Arbitration Inc. has announced a change in ownership, as its current CEO has bought out the other partners.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • High Court Elects Substance Over Form In Arbitration Dispute

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    The High Court recently found that an arbitral tribunal has jurisdiction over the dispute in Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority v. India, underscoring the importance of aligning treaty interpretation with the goal of fostering investment, while rejecting interpretations that unduly limit investor protections, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

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