International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Blog

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Aaron H. Jacoby, David P. McHugh, Evgeny Magidenko, Tiffany O. Yadegar
The Corporate Transparency Act will now require certain entities to register with FinCEN.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Maya S. Cohen
On July 25, 2023, the United Nations Commission on International Trade (UNCITRAL) concluded its 56th session in Vienna, Austria.
Hunter T. Carter, Brian Farkas
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court sided with defendants seeking to compel arbitration of claims filed against them in federal court.
Riyaz Dattu*, Maya S. Cohen
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from the outset of his six-year term, made it abundantly clear that his government will exercise greater control and intrusive state supervision over mining activities in Mexico.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Jodi Tai
On January 20, 2023, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) released its statistics for 2022.
Riyaz Dattu*, Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*, Maya S. Cohen, Maxime Jeanpierre
The entitlement to bring claims for breaches of the investment standards and protections contained in Section A of Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement will soon end. 
Riyaz Dattu*, Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*, Maya S. Cohen, Maxime Jeanpierre
On January 30, 2023, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published its Caseload Statistics for the 2022 calendar year.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Maya S. Cohen, Derek Ha
On November 18, 2022, Luxembourg became the seventh country to announce plans to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), following in the footsteps of Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, and Germany.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Jodi Tai
On November 18, 2022, the European Commission announced the conclusion of negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Angola on a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA). 
Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*, Maya S. Cohen, Maxime Jeanpierre
On October 14th, 2022, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published its Annual Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 covering the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022, including statistics on cases administered by the Centre during that period. 
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Maxime Jeanpierre, Maya S. Cohen
On September 13, 2022, the European Parliament approved a report by its committee on legal affairs that calls for the introduction of a new regulatory framework to prevent abuses that may be caused by third-party-funded lawsuits
Lee M. Caplan, Hunter T. Carter, Timothy J. Feighery, Brian Farkas, Derek Ha
Parties can ask district courts to compel persons within the courts’ respective districts to provide evidence in aid of proceedings before “a foreign or international tribunal.” A longstanding question has been whether §1782 extends to private international commercial arbitration.
Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*, Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery
On March 21, the Member States of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) approved extensive amendments to the Centre’s rules and regulations that will go into effect on July 1, 2022.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Riyaz Dattu*, Gerard Leval, Maxime Jeanpierre
On February 7th, 2022, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published the latest edition of its Caseload Statistics, confirming the strong demand for ICSID Arbitration despite challenges posed by a second year of the coronavirus pandemic. 
Timothy J. Feighery, Gerard Leval, Maxime Jeanpierre
Last week, members of the European Parliament debated newly imposed Chinese sanctions as tensions between the two powers continue to escalate.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan
On January 29, 2021, the EU and Canada adopted four important decisions to ready the novel Investment Court System (ICS) for disputes arising under the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*
The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the leading arbitration venue for investor-State arbitration, has released its FY2020 caseload statistics.
On September 10, former US State Department lawyers filed a joint amicus brief in the Supreme Court encouraging the justices to reverse a DC Circuit court decision altering the FSIA.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan
On July 8, 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rendered its decision in In Re Application and Petition of Hanwei Guo for an order to take Discovery for Use in a Foreign Proceeding Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1782 (No. 19-781) (“Hanwei’), confirming that discovery under 28 U.S.C. §1782 is
Malcolm S. McNeil
On June 1, 2020, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled a non-signatory to an international arbitration agreement can enforce that agreement and rely on domestic state law doctrines to compel others to arbitrate.
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Hunter T. Carter, Malcolm S. McNeil, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu*
The world’s major arbitration institutions have jointly issued a statement encouraging parties and arbitrators to collaborate and discuss “any impact of the pandemic and potential ways to address it in an open and constructive manner.”
Arent Fox LLP, on behalf of UAB Skyroad Leasing, filed a petition in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on March 18, 2020, seeking to enforce an arbitration award of more than $20 million against OJSC Tajik Air, Tajikistan’s state-owned airline.
Timothy J. Feighery, Elliott M. Kroll
The typical path for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice when it determines that a contemplated merger is anticompetitive is to sue in federal court to block the merger.
Lee M. Caplan, Timothy J. Feighery
The release on December 12, 2019, of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (the BHR Rules) offers a new and innovative dispute resolution option in the field of corporate responsibility.
Timothy J. Feighery
IAReporter reports that on January 27, 2020, in the case of Dirk Herzig as Insolvency Administrator of the Assets of Unionmatex v. Turkmenistan, an ICSID tribunal, comprised of Nathalie Voser, Philippe Sands, and Lucy Reed as chair, granted Turkmenistan’s request for security for costs because of th