On 28 March 2024 the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Minsheng Vocational Education Company Limited against an injunction enjoining Minsheng from purporting to enforce certain share charges. This is...more
On July 8, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that 28 U.S.C. §1782, which affords discretion to U.S. courts to order discovery in the U.S. in connection with foreign proceedings, does not extend to...more
On July 8, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled in Hanwei Guo v. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated,...more
Just as the jurisprudential pendulum appeared to be swinging smoothly in one direction, the Second Circuit declined to get on board and instead pushed back to the future on July 8, 2020 in holding that federal courts may not...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently reaffirmed a more than two-decades old decision holding that parties to a private, foreign arbitration proceeding cannot utilize federal courts to compel the...more
A ripening circuit split over the availability of U.S. discovery in foreign arbitration proceedings took another step toward a possible Supreme Court showdown with the July 8 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for...more
Decision encourages a deferential approach to enforcing foreign awards in England and confirms narrow interpretation of the public policy exception under the New York Convention. The English Court of Appeal has confirmed...more