The Brazilian Oil and Gas Agency (“ANP”) has recently published the draft agreements for exploration and production of oil and gas in Brazil, which will apply to the next bid rounds (public bids for private parties to acquire exploration and production rights) (available in English here). The 14th general bid round for concession of blocks in Brazil is expected to take place in September 2017, while the 2nd and 3rd special bid rounds for the…
Tribunal dismisses investor’s claims because of breach of admissibility requirements under the applicable BIT in the ICSID case…
Law 13.448 was published today in Brazil, to regulate the possibility of extending or submitting to new bid…
In a legal Opinion handed down on 16 May 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) declared that the free trade agreement signed between the EU and Singapore in June 2015 cannot be ratified without the approval of all 38 of the EU’s national and regional parliaments. Given the broad subject-matter of the agreement, including potentially controversial provisions regarding investor-State dispute settlement, might this decision spell the end of the EU’s fledgling…
As a condition of employment, employers often require their employees to sign arbitration agreements requiring that all employment…
On April 26 the Brazilian House of Representatives has approved a reform of the Brazilian Labor Code (“Consolidação…
In Norcia, Plaintiff filed a putative class action against Samsung, alleging that it made misrepresentations as to the performance of the Galaxy S4 phone. Plaintiff purchased his Samsung phone from a Verizon Wireless store in San Francisco, California. As part of the purchase process, he signed a Customer Agreement with Verizon, containing an arbitration provision that did not reference Samsung or any other party. The phone also came in a sealed box containing a Product…
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) was founded in 1917. It is part of…
On March 1, 2017, the new Arbitration Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC-Rules”) come into force.…
On January 31, 2017, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals authorized a court-appointed Receiver to avoid arbitration clauses contained in employment and employment-related agreements.[1] While, at first glance, the Court’s decision not to compel a non-signatory to arbitration appears unremarkable, in fact the decision reflects how far the Court was willing to go in order to protect a Receiver’s choice of a judicial forum. Background Allen Stanford, through a network of companies, operated a now-infamous…