The Ljubljana Arbitration Centre (LAC) is a body organised within the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and is the central arbitration institution in Slovenia. The LAC is an autonomous and independent administrative body that provides a wide range of dispute resolution services, most notably arbitration, mediation and conciliation.[1] The LAC has a long-standing tradition […]
International Arbitration
Transparency in Investment Arbitration
Transparency in Investment Arbitration: Entry into Force of the Mauritius Convention On 18 April 2017, Switzerland became the third UN Member State to ratify the 2015 United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration (“The Mauritius Convention”). The Mauritius Convention reaffirmed the 2014 UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (UNCITRAL Rules) and […]
The ICC Arbitration Clause – International Chamber of Commerce
By including an ICC Arbitration Clause in a contract, the parties agree that their dispute will be resolved by arbitration and that the arbitration proceedings will be governed by the procedural rules in the ICC Rules of Arbitration, in addition to any mandatory rules at the seat of arbitration. This also implies that the International […]
Aceris Co-Sponsors Conference on the Protection of Foreign Investments
Aceris Law co-sponsored a one-day-conference on international arbitration and the protection of foreign investments organised on June 2, 2017 by Student Societies from 4 French universities: the Association des Juristes de Droit International (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbone), the Association du Master 2 de Droit International Economique (Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas), the Association des Anciens Etudiants de Droit […]
Provisional Measures in ICSID Investment Arbitration
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Convention allows parties to an ICSID arbitration to request provisional measures from arbitral tribunals. Provisional measures are frequently requested in the course of arbitrations, and the ICSID has compiled a comprehensive table with past requests for provisional measures, showing when requests for provisional measures in […]
S SpA v. T GmbH, Oberster Gerichtshof, Case No. 180Cg1/15v, 23 June 2015
This case, resulting from a partial award rendered in a VIAC commercial arbitration, concerns the formal requirements of the validity of an arbitration agreement under Austrian law. The facts are as follows: a German consultant signed a contract for service with S SpA, an Italian company, for the sale of heat exchangers. This contract was […]
Sales Representative (Iraq) v. Manufacturer (France), ICC Case No. 16684, Final Award (2012)
This ICC arbitral award concerns the notion of estoppel and a Representation Agreement between the parties, and whether a contract was valid and enforceable despite a United Nations embargo, with respect to a contract under Swiss law. While the contract was being performed, an Iraq embargo was ordered by the United Nations following the invasion […]
Arbitration and World Wide Freezing Orders: U&M Mining Zambia v. Konkola Copper Mines, English High Court (2014)
U&M Mining Zambia Ltd v Konkola Copper Mines Plc [2014] EWHC 3250 (Comm) (10 October 2014) concerns the issuance of world wide freezing orders (“WFO”) against a losing party to an arbitration. By way of background, a dispute had arisen out of a contract entered into by the parties for the provision by U&M Mining […]
IMPREGILO S.P.A. V. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC (ICSID CASE NO. ARB/07/17) – AWARD of 21 June 2011
In 1996, Claimant was awarded a contract for a concession to privatize the water and sewer services of the Province of Buenos Aires. To execute the contract, Claimant incorporated AGBA (an Argentinean company). Under the contract, AGBA acquired the exclusive right to collect, treat, transport, distribute and commercialize water and sewage and, in return, was […]
