/internationalarbitration?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: International Arbitration Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:02:21 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423342?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423342 A federal judge has agreed with energy infrastructure company Enbridge that Michigan cannot unilaterally shut down an international petroleum pipeline that crosses the Great Lakes, ruling that oversight of the pipeline falls to the federal government. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:01:01 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2424310?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2424310 Italian energy giant Eni is urging the U.S. Supreme Court 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. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:09:51 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2422026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2422026 As more organizations eliminate their in-house legal departments in favor of outsourcing legal work, fractional general counsel roles offer practitioners an engaging and flexible way to practice at a high level, but they can also present legal, ethical and operational risks that must be proactively managed, say attorneys at Boies Schiller. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:31:37 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2424053?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2424053 This past week in London has seen the designer of an 88-facet diamond bring a copyright claim against a luxury watch retailer, collapsed firm Axiom Ince bring legal action against the solicitors' watchdog, and the Post Office hit with compensation claims from two former branch managers over their wrongful convictions during the Horizon information technology scandal. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:09:08 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2424033?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2424033 A London court ruled Friday that there is nothing unlawful about the U.K. amending a sanctions license that would block VTB Bank of Russia from recovering approximately £205 million ($274 million) in debts through the administration of its British subsidiary. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:31:53 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2424031?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2424031 Motorola has successfully reinstated a $136.3 million judgment that enforces a U.S. decision against a Chinese radio-maker for infringing its intellectual property rights, as an appeals court held on Friday that ongoing proceedings abroad were no reason to revoke the English decision. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:45:55 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423809?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423809 A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected a bid by Venezuela's state-owned oil company to find that service of a lawsuit over a roughly $62 million defaulted bond was insufficient under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, ruling that the company had waived its right to be served in compliance with the act. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:01:25 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423817?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423817 The Second Circuit on Thursday backed a finding that the owner of "Baby Shark" trademarks, which won a default judgment against dozens of Chinese companies, didn't properly serve two of those businesses, saying an email didn't pass muster under the rules of the Hague Service Convention. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:12:48 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423774?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423774 Aetna cannot force food services company Aramark to arbitrate allegations the insurer cost it millions of dollars by approving shoddy health benefit claims, a split Fifth Circuit panel affirmed Thursday, saying the parties' agreement doesn't clearly delegate arbitrability to an arbitrator and the claims seek equitable, not legal, relief. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:20:22 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423273?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423273 A New York federal judge ordered the parent company of a Colombian coffee supplier to arbitrate a dispute over its soured relationship with the U.S. arm of a Swiss coffee merchant despite not signing an underlying arbitration agreement, ruling that the pact could be enforced based on an agency theory. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:01:48 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2421416?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2421416 A New York federal court's recent decision in Flextronics v. Allianz, sustaining an $11 million arbitration award against the insurer, represents a significant affirmation of core policyholder protections in directors and officers insurance, specifically those dealing with allocation, insurability and best-efforts obligations, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:04:10 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423533?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423533 EuroChem failed on Thursday to overturn an order for it to end legal proceedings in Russia brought against Italian industrial group Tecnimont SpA — including a judgment award worth more than $2 billion — in breach of an English arbitration agreement. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:38:41 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2398225?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2398225 Nature photography reminds me to focus on what is in front of me and to slow down to achieve success, and, in embracing the value of viewing situations through different lenses, offers skills transferable to the practice of law, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:10:36 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2422540?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2422540 The Third Circuit has concluded that Avis did not waive its right to arbitrate a long-running class action over traffic fines incurred during a rental with certain members of the class by continuing to litigate the dispute years after incorporating an arbitration clause in its rental agreement. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:46:31 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423259?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423259 Two Mauritian mining companies are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to recognize a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:57:24 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2423343?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2423343 A Tenth Circuit panel on Wednesday reinstated a $2.9 million Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration award against a financial adviser who allegedly undermined a firm she worked for, ruling that she waived any objections she had to arbitrating with the plaintiffs before FINRA. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:39:57 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2417776?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2417776 Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:32:57 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2408939?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2408939 Federal circuit courts in 2025 strained under a crush of Trump administration lawsuits, as judges directed animated language at litigants and even their fellow judges. And while the president only added a handful of appellate jurists, they had outsize impacts on circuit benches as they joined the cadre of conservatives seated in his first term. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:41:32 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2422668?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2422668 Though French arbitration law is highly supportive of arbitral autonomy, last week's Paris Court of Appeal judgment annulling a $14.9 billion arbitral award against Malaysia reaffirms that such support is neither unqualified nor blind to defects striking at the very legitimacy of the arbitral process, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:26:52 +0000 /internationalarbitration/articles/2422636?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /internationalarbitration/articles/2422636 Venezuela and its state-owned oil company pressed a D.C. federal court Monday to nix litigation aimed at enforcing a more than $351 million arbitral award owed to a pair of Spanish food distribution service investors via a French judgment, saying it has sovereign immunity.