International Arbitration
The International Arbitration Blog covers the notable legal cases, trends and personalities in international arbitration and seeks to facilitate the development of Alternative Disputes Resolution practice.
This blog is designed to provide a forum for the discussion of current laws and developing practice of ADR. It highlights also new court decisions, new laws that impact the development of arbitration in Ukraine. Konstantin Pilkov, MCIArb is the lead writer.
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Recent Articles
The ruling of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in RosUkrEnergo v. Naftogaz Ukrainy JSC case
As we announced earlier the Supreme Court of Ukraine ruled on enforcement under the New York Convention of a Swedish arbitral award rendered in RosUkrEnergo v. Naftogaz Ukrainy JSC case. Recently the SCC published the unofficial translation of the Court’s ruling. For those who are interested it is...
ICSID announces its tribunal’s award in Global Trading Resource Corp. and Globex International, Inc. v. Ukraine case. The claim is commercial, not the investment one!
On December 1, 2010 the arbitration tribunal of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes announced its final award in Global Trading Resource Corp. and Globex International, Inc. V. Ukraine case. On 21 May 2009 the ICSID received a request for arbitration dated 18 May 2009...
CIArb Costs of International Arbitration Survey. Participate and obtain the results of the Survey!
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators commenced collection of information on the costs of international commercial arbitration proceedings. The aim is to gather data which will inform parties, legal representatives, and arbitrators about the overall costs of international commercial arbitration....
Final point in RosUkrEnergo v. Naftogaz Ukrainy case
On November 24, 2010 the Supreme Court of Ukraine adopted its final ruling on RosUkrEnergo v. Naftogaz Ukrainy JSC case. The Court supported the position of the court of first instance and the appeal court. As we informed in our previous posts that after the arbitral tribunal had issued its award...
Swiss Rules play a trick, of Why Ukrainian state courts do not recognize “arbitration in Geneva”?
With this post we continue the Ukraine – arbitration-friendly jurisdiction set of comments. We already discussed how Ukrainian courts treat ad hoc arbitration and what is their perception of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. This time the arbitration under the Swiss...
Holen Sie sich für 2011 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Wettbewerb bereit
Wie Sie wahrscheinlich wissen, ist der Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot einer der weltweit größten Studentenwettbewerbe in den Rechtswissenschaften. Die Teilnehmer erstellen ab Anfang Oktober auf der Grundlage eines realitätsnah aufgearbeiteten Sachverhalts in einem fiktiven Schiedsgerichtsverfahren...
RosUkrEnergo investigation commission of the Verkhovna Rada assumes that Naftogaz Ukrainy JSC lost the SCC case because of change of its legal position
On November 17, 2010 RosUkrEnergo investigation commission of the Verkhovna Rada presented draft report regarding the award of the arbitral tribunal under the rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The draft is subject to consideration of the core committee, thus...
Alpha Projektholding has won the investment dispute against Ukraine under ICSID rules
The Tribunal found that Ukraine conducted the expropriation of Alpha Projektholding’s rights and interests in the 1998 and 1999 Joint Activities Agreements in violation of Article 4 of the the Agreement for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments between the Republic of Austria and...
Everything you need to know about international arbitration on one page
International arbitration is a very tricky area, there are too many peculiarities so that even an academic course in this field is only a small amount of knowledge that the practitioner should have. We are often asked by young lawyers starting their practice in arbitration about the general...
Guerrilla Tactics in International Arbitration and Litigation
Do you want to have a detailed knowledge about what the Guerrilla Tactics in international arbitration and litigation mean and what are counsel’s and the arbitral tribunal’s tools to deal with those? Where does poor behavior end and guerrilla tactics start? How do arbitral institutions view the...

