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Contract Drafting Arbitration Jurisdiction

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Top 5 Pitfalls to Avoid in Arbitration Agreements

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Once you decide to arbitrate rather than litigate, the next crucial step is ensuring the arbitration agreement is well-drafted. While arbitration offers businesses a private, efficient, and flexible method for resolving...more

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Judgment Gymnastics: Enforcing Overseas Judgments and Arbitration Awards in the U.S.

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Perhaps you represent a U.S. company that is entering into a contract with an overseas entity, or vice versa. You are contemplating whether the contract should provide for arbitration or litigation in the event of a dispute....more

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Supreme Court Holds that Where Two Contracts Conflict on the Issue of Arbitrability, Courts - Not Arbitrators - Decide Which...

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When there are two conflicting contracts—one requiring a court to address whether a case should be decided by arbitration or court action, and another requiring an arbitrator to address that issue—who decides which contract...more

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Arbitration Clauses in International Agreements – Do’s and Don’ts

Contractual engagements inevitably beget legal disputes. Even the best agreement is no guarantee the engagement will succeed. Accordingly, one of the most important provisions in any commercial agreement is the provision that...more

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Hong Kong Law Contract Guide

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Our team in Hong Kong recently developed a Hong Kong Law Contract Guide. The guide discusses relevant legal principles that inform the most common contractual clauses in Hong Kong. The guide offers practical points to...more

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Challenging Arbitral Awards – Who’s the Boss and What Can It Do?

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Appealing High Court decisions under the Arbitration Act 1996 (the Act) may be restricted following a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal. In Integral Petroleum SA v Melars Group Limited (2016 EWCA Civ 108), the Court of...more

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Court Rules That Procedural Law Is Synonymous With the Law of the Seat Arbitration

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A recent decision of the English Commercial Court (Shagang South -Asia (Hong Kong) Trading Co Ltd v Daewoo Logistics [2015] EWHC 194 (Comm)) addresses a potential ambiguity in poorly drafted dispute resolution clauses. In...more

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Seven Things You Should Know About Arbitration Clauses

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Arbitration clauses are routinely added to commercial contracts, but often with very little reflection on the many strategic and tactical issues that should be considered. Further, there is a great deal of misunderstanding of...more

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