Venezuela is taking its fight over a $1.4 billion arbitral award to the District of Columbia’s federal court of appeals.
The award capped a bitter dispute between Venezuela and Crystallex International Corporation, a...more
6/22/2017
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A long-running dispute between Chevron and Ecuador appears to have reached its end after the Supreme Court declined to take up Ecuador’s question of whether United States courts had jurisdiction to confirm a $96 million...more
7/1/2016
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Tribunals
The District Court of the Hague overturned a record $50 billion in damages awards issued by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (“PCA”), to the former controlling shareholders of the Yukos Oil Company on the grounds that...more