Reclamações por atrasos são uma das mais frequentes em disputas originadas de projetos de construção. Eles podem surgir a partir de uma mudança do escopo da obra solicitado pelo contratante, problemas para dar acesso ao local da obra ou entregar as informações solicitadas pelo empreiteiro por parte do contratante, mas também pela falha do empreiteiro […]
International Arbitration
Arbitration in Quebec
Arbitrations seated in Canada are regulated primarily by provincial rather than federal legislation. Each of Canada’s provinces, except for Quebec, has enacted legislation adopting the UNCITRAL Model Law. In Quebec, the Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure are consistent with the UNCITRAL Model Law. In addition, each province has legislation to regulate domestic commercial […]
Arbitragem no setor comercialização de energia elétrica no Brasil
O setor de comercialização de energia elétrica do Brasil foi por muito tempo concentrado em um único agente. Mas com a intenção de obter maior eficiência na prestação desses serviços foi implantada a fragmentação dos serviços ou desintegração vertical. Assim, com as alterações introduzidas pela Lei 9.648/1998, a figura do produtor independente e a comercialização […]
International Investment Arbitration and EU Law: A Comparison of Protections Provided to Foreign Investors and Suggested Solutions to Reconcile Both Legal Orders
In the context of mistrust towards international investment arbitration, overlap is taking place between two legal orders that tended to ignore each other in the past, international investment arbitration and EU law, creating friction between the two legal communities. These frictions materialized in the judgment of the CJEU in Slovak Republic v. Achmea (“Achmea“), the […]
Arbitral Tribunal Finds that Achmea and the January 2019 Declarations Are Irrelevant to Consent to Arbitration under the ECT
On 7 May 2019, the arbitral tribunal in Eskosol S.P.A in Liquidazione v Italian Republic [1] took a position on various issues concerning ECT arbitration following the judgment of the CJEU in Slovak Republic v. Achmea (“Achmea“). The decision addressed a request filed on 4 February 2019 by the Italian Republic for an award declaring […]
Arbitration in Albania
As one of the most commonly used methods for settling international disputes, arbitration is common in Albania. The latter has signed and ratified important and well-known international conventions such as the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and The European Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, […]
Aceris Successfully Resolves Another ICC Arbitration Under Saudi Law
Aceris Law LLC has successfully resolved another ICC arbitration under Saudi Arabian law, obtaining the objectives of its client in full. In the dispute, Aceris Law represented the claimant, a sub-contractor, in a dispute involving breaches of a contract for engineering, procurement and construction activities. The place of arbitration was Paris. Aceris Law has served […]
Six-Month International Arbitration Internship: July-December 2019
Aceris Law LLC, a boutique law firm providing counsel for investment, commercial and construction arbitrations, is currently seeking an intern for a six-month internship beginning in July 2019 and ending in December 2019. Interns can be based in any city or country – we provide the technology that is necessary to work with our team, […]
Interim Measures in International Arbitration: A Need for Irreparable Harm?
It is a well-established rule of international arbitration that arbitral tribunals have the power to grant interim or conservatory measures. This is explicitly provided in all major arbitration rules (see, e.g., Article 28 of the 2017 ICC Rules, Article 25.1 of the 2014 LCIA Rules, Article 26 of the 2010 UNCITRAL Rules, Rule 30 of […]
