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International Arbitration Newsletter - January 2019

Brief overview of arbitration in 2018: Achmea, Brexit and Prague Rules, among other hot topics

2018 has been another significant year for international arbitration, with certain topics being repeatedly mentioned and discussed in different fora worldwide. As the new year starts, Garrigues’ International Arbitration Group makes a brief overview of the most outstanding developments in international arbitration in 2018, including the impact of the Achmea case, Brexit, the Prague Rules and much more.

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Regional Overview

THE AMERICAS

  • Argentina: ICSID annulment committee confirms award against Argentina on water dispute
  • Mexico: Mexico faced with Treaty claim of Singaporean marine services provider
  • Mexico: Mexico sees new NAFTA claim on limestone quarry
  • Panama: ICC tribunal issues second award in favour of Panama Channel authority
  • Peru: Peru hit with a new ICSID Treaty claim on hydroelectric power plants

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EUROPE

  • Italy: Italy receives first solar claim award against it
  • Romania: Romania sees new ECJ action over Micula brothers ICSID award enforcement
  • Serbia: ICSID tribunal accepts jurisdiction to hear round-trip claim against Serbia
  • Spain: Spain faces ECT claim brought by European Solar Farms
  • Turkey: Turkey hit with new ICSID claim in uranium mining dispute

 

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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

  • Egypt: Egyptian gas company seeks award enforcement despite settlement
  • Egypt: ICC seeks to stop “sham” Cairo award
  • Libya: Libya hit with UNCITRAL oil refinery claim brought by UAE investor
  • Morocco: Morocco faced with ICSID claim from German scrap recycler
  • Qatar: Three prominent arbitrators convicted by a court in Qatar

 

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ASIA PACIFIC

  • China: US-based start-up Faraday Future settles CIETAC dispute
  • China: CIETAC to hear music-streaming dispute
  • India: Gas migration award challenged by India
  • India: India requests arbitration proceedings to be heard by Delhi High Court
  • Hong Kong: Hong Kong government publishes code of practice for third-party funding

 

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INSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER NEWS

  • Publication  of the CESA 2017 Arbitration Yearbook
  • ICC releases updated guidance on the conduct of arbitration under its rules 
  • New arbitration rules of SCIA to include appellate procedures

TEAM NEWS

Appointments

  • Senior Associate Elisa Vicente (Madrid office) has been appointed as a coordinator of the CEA Under-40 for Madrid for the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA)
  • Joe Tirado (London) has been appointed to the China Arbitration Association and the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association international panels of arbitrators and mediatiors

Speaking engagements

  • Pedro Tent (Valencia) to speak on 25 January 2019 in Valencia at Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Valencia in cooperation with the Asociación Europea de Arbitraje
  • Joe Tirado (London) to speak at 7th Annual Arbitration and Investment Summit - Caribbean, Latin America and Other Emerging Markets, in Nassau on 25 January 2018

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