Accepting Appointment as Sole Arbitrator

Why Commodity Trading Houses Turn to a Specialist Commodity Dispute Arbitrator

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International commodity trading moves at a pace few other industries can match. Cargoes of grain, oilseeds, metals and energy products change hands across multiple jurisdictions within days, often through a chain of back-to-back contracts. When a dispute arises over quality, delivery, payment or force majeure, the parties rarely have the luxury of a multi-year court

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FIDIC Disputes Explained: Why Construction Contracts So Often End Up in Arbitration

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FIDIC contracts, the standard forms published by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, govern more cross-border construction and infrastructure projects than any other family of contracts in the world. The Red, Yellow and Silver Books sit behind everything from a single power plant to a multi-billion-dollar rail concession, and nearly all of them route disputes

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Sovereign Disputes vs Commercial Disputes: Why the Arbitrator’s Experience Matters

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Two companies disputing a supply contract and an investor disputing a license revocation with a national government may both end up in arbitration, but the resemblance largely ends there. A commercial dispute is bounded by the four corners of a contract and the commercial law the parties chose to govern it. A sovereign dispute adds

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Banking Disputes Across Borders: When Should Financial Disputes Go to Arbitration?

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A single trade transaction can pass through half a dozen banks before it settles. An issuing bank in Mumbai, a confirming bank in London, a correspondent in New York and a reimbursing bank in Singapore may all sit inside one letter of credit, each governed by a different regulatory regime and each with its own

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Sector Expertise Across Commodity, Shipping and Construction Arbitration

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Commercial arbitration is often described as a single discipline. Still, in practice it splits into distinct trades, each with its own procedural conventions, standard-form contracts, and points of recurring friction. A tribunal member fluent in one sector cannot always transfer that fluency to another without a learning curve, and in time-sensitive commercial disputes, that learning

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Why Sovereign States and Global Infrastructure Turn to Independent Arbitrators

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Cross-border disputes rarely announce themselves gently. A concession renegotiated by a change in government, a pipeline delayed by permitting disputes, a transmission project caught between two regulatory regimes each can escalate from a contractual disagreement into a matter of national consequence within months. What separates a dispute that is resolved efficiently from one that drags

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Accepting Appointment as Sole Arbitrator in Partnership and Investment Treaty Disputes

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A well-drafted arbitration clause is only the first step. The moment a dispute crystallizes, the choice of arbitrator and how carefully that arbitrator screens the appointment shapes everything that follows: procedural timetable, the tribunal’s grip on the merits, and ultimately the enforceability of the award. Two categories of dispute make this screening especially demanding: those

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Five Signs Your Cross-border Dispute Needs an Investment Treaty & Sovereign Dispute Arbitrator

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Not every dispute with a foreign government belongs in ordinary commercial arbitration. Many investors only discover this once a regulatory decision has already reshaped their project, by which point the more useful question is no longer “was our contract breached?” but “does international law give us a separate route to relief?” Recognizing that shift early,

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The Work of a Metal & Mining Dispute Arbitrator

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Few sectors generate disputes as varied, technically dense or geopolitically charged as metals and mining. A single mine may sit at the intersection of a state concession, a joint venture agreement, an offtake contract, an environmental permit and a bilateral investment treaty, and a dispute arising from any one of these instruments can ripple through

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