Insights

London – October 4, 2023: Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP has been recommended in four practice areas in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024. In addition, partner Andrew Knight has been named as a leading individual for asset based lending. The firm’s full rankings can be viewed here.

 Washington, D.C. – May 11, 2017: Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce that 12 practice areas and 11 lawyers in its Brussels and London offices were recognized by the Legal 500 Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) 2017 edition. The firm was recognized as “top tier” in five categories. Among the lawyers recognized, three were listed in the elite "Leading Lawyers" category.

The English Court of Appeal has recently handed down a helpful judgment, clarifying the test for breach of duty in cases of alleged negligence by valuers. In short: (i) the valuation must fall outside a reasonable margin of error of the ‘correct’ valuation; and (ii) the valuer must have carried out the valuation in a way that no reasonably competent valuer could have done (the Bolam test).

This alert follows our previous review of the judgment of the U.K. Supreme Court in IPCO (Nigeria) Limited v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2017] UKSC 16 (IPCO). That case concerned a challenge to enforcement of a New York Convention arbitration award and considered whether the provision of security on the award value could be made a prerequisite to launching such a challenge. In a unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court held the provision of security may only be made a prerequisite in cases of adjournment pending resolution of a challenge in the courts of the seat of arbitration.

In IPCO (Nigeria) Limited v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2017] UKSC 16, a unanimous bench of five members of the Supreme Court held that the English courts may not condition a New York Convention award debtor’s challenge to award enforcement under the Convention and Arbitration Act 1996 upon payment of security on the award’s value, except in cases of adjournment pending resolution of a challenge in the courts of the seat of arbitration. The judgment, dated 1 March 2017, is available here.

Crowell & Moring International Dispute Resolution Group associate Kassi D. Tallent was featured in Global Arbitration Review for launching a trial phase of "Young-OGEMID." OGEMID, the Oil Gas Energy Mining Infrastructure and Investment Disputes Group, is a restricted internet forum for practicing international arbitrators, mediators and negotiators. Young-OGEMID is for associates only, however PhD students with a particular interest in arbitration may be eligible. Thus far, there have been over 130 registrations since the forum became active on June 16, 2008.

The five-day Düsseldorf International Arbitration School aims at providing young practitioners, post graduates and advanced students – especially Moot Court participants – with the requisite specific knowledge. The School is based on a highly practical, inter-active teaching concept. Participants get the rare opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge in both the law and practice of international commercial arbitration.

The American Law Institute has begun work on the Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. In drafting an American restatement of an international subject, "fault lines" may appear - unresolved or controversial issues that are not viewed the same way in all cultures or legal systems. This conference will examine such issues under two broad headings: How national is international arbitration? And what are the limits of party autonomy?

The UIA is proud to present its first international seminar organised in Syria, jointly with the Syrian Bar Association.