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December 22, 2025
Qatar National Bank pressed its case against the Bank of South Sudan's bid to avoid enforcement of a $1 billion arbitral award that found South Sudan defaulted on a $700 million loan agreement from its civil war era, arguing Friday that the Sudanese bank is seeking "an impermissible appeal of unfounded issues."
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December 22, 2025
A Quantum Biopharma investor has filed a proposed class action against several major Canadian banks, accusing them of running a spoofing scheme for years that artificially drove down Quantum's stock price — flooding exchanges with fake sell orders to mislead the market and buy shares at deflated prices, costing ordinary shareholders millions.
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December 19, 2025
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.
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December 19, 2025
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.
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December 19, 2025
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.
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December 19, 2025
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.
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December 19, 2025
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.
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December 18, 2025
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.
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December 18, 2025
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.
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December 18, 2025
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.
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December 18, 2025
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.
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December 18, 2025
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.
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December 17, 2025
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.
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December 17, 2025
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.
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December 17, 2025
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.
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December 17, 2025
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.
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December 16, 2025
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.
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December 16, 2025
Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.
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December 16, 2025
Success rates for parties challenging international arbitral awards remain low across multiple jurisdictions, including New York, according to a new report published by Reed Smith LLP that analyzes six years of data ending in 2024.
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December 16, 2025
The Australia-headquartered litigation funding firm Omni Bridgeway has hired new leaders for its arbitration and antitrust initiatives in the U.S., who bring experience working at the U.S. Department of Justice, the International Court of Justice and a number of law firms to the team in Washington, D.C.
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December 16, 2025
An advertising business has sued Gannons at a London court, alleging that its dispute with a shareholder escalated to arbitration after the law firm failed to help properly exercise an option to buy shares under a settlement deal.
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December 15, 2025
The Bank of South Sudan urged a D.C. federal court not to side with Qatar National Bank in a dispute over enforcement of a $1 billion arbitral award that found South Sudan defaulted on a $700 million loan agreement from its civil war era, arguing that the arbitral tribunal lacked jurisdiction.
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December 15, 2025
A jury on Friday returned a guilty verdict for a former One Sotheby's International Realty agent who was accused of stealing $3.7 million in proceeds from the sale of a Miami-area beachfront luxury condo.
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December 15, 2025
One of two suits by fans blocked from attending a soccer championship match by unticketed fans storming the entrances last year moved a step closer to resolution after the other suit reached a settlement with the stadium and tournament organizers.
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December 15, 2025
Two prominent international arbitration professors and a Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC partner are urging the Third Circuit to revisit its decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds Burford Capital's bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation.