MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Freshfields’ head of international arbitration, Lucy Reed, talks to Singapore International Arbitration Centre chief executive, Lim Seok Hui, about the institution’s recent rise to prominence Lucy Reed, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer: Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)’s reputation in the market has skyrocketed in the last five years. What are some of the …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Following a high-profile internal squabble, the CIETAC is going global. Yu Jianlong, the institution’s secretary general, tells Clyde & Co partner Patrick Zheng why Hong Kong was its first port of call Patrick Zheng, Clyde & Co: With a growing number of arbitral institutions around the world, why should a party …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Manfred Heider, secretary general of VIAC, talks to Zeiler. Partners’ Gerold Zeiler about how recent changes to the institution’s rules will maintain its position as a key location for European disputes Gerold Zeiler, zeiler.partners: With a growing number of arbitral institutions, why should a party use your institution? Manfred Heider, Vienna …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION James Hope of Vinge talks to Annette Magnusson, secretary general at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, about arbitrator diversity, emergency relief and sharing best institutional practices That Sweden boasts both one of the earliest modern arbitration statutes – predating by two years the English Act of 1889 …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION What’s so great about scrutiny? ICC International Court of Arbitration secretary general Andrea Carlevaris discusses his institution’s calling card with White & Case partner Michael Polkinghorne There are no bad arbitrators, only inappropriate arbitrators for specific cases. So says ICC International Court of Arbitration secretary general, Andrea Carlevaris, the man charged …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION What’s next for the institution that pioneered the now-ubiquitous emergency arbitrator provision? WilmerHale partner John Pierce talks to American Arbitration Association senior vice president Richard Naimark to find out In the context of dispute resolution, ‘US-style’ rarely denotes a positive quality. Be it for the brand of aggressive cross-examination practised in …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION ICSID secretary general Meg Kinnear talks annulment, case administration and the globalisation of treaty arbitration with Baker & McKenzie partners Grant Hanessian and Teddy Baldwin That more cases were filed at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2013 than during the first 24 years of its existence …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Shortly before the LCIA’s rule revisions came into effect on 1 October, the institution’s director general Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof met with WilmerHale partner Steven Finizio to discuss how its provisions fit into her vision for the future Steven Finizio, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr: The growth of the London …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION CMS Cameron McKenna’s Guy Pendell and Lindy Patterson QC assess industry sectory arbitration and the role of the specialist institution Arbitration is available to resolve almost any dispute between parties capable of giving legal consent. Arbitration is available for religious groups through Beth Din (for the Jewish community) and the Muslim …
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Three Crowns’ Jan Paulsson looks at how little we know about arbitration in the present and what that means for predicting the future Speculating about the future of international arbitration is a more comfortable activity than speculating about its present, because as long as we are not talking about the near …
