9/30/2025 5:14:59 PM From the Freshfields SEC Desk: One Green Light for Mandatory Arbitration from the SEC By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took a significant step to reverse course on a decades-old policy...
3/25/2025 9:14:54 PM Takeaways from Our Webinar on Navigating Argentina’s RIGI By Melissa Raciti-Knapp Noiana Marigo Rosario Galardi Thomas Heilborn +1 more... Show less Last week, we hosted in association with Marval O’Farrell Mairal and Valo Columbus Investment Banking a webinar analyzing Argentina’s...
5/22/2024 7:45:26 PM Supreme Court Clarifies Role of Federal Courts in Disputes Referred to Arbitration By Thomas Walsh David Livshiz Maria Slobodchikova Liz Lewis +1 more... Show less On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that district courts must stay cases that they refer to arbitration, rather than...
3/18/2024 3:10:23 PM The AAA Updates its Mass Arbitration Rules By Thomas Walsh Christian Vandergeest Maylin Meisenheimer The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently published new amendments to its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules (Mass...
12/5/2023 9:45:22 PM The Curious Case of Crossover Witnesses in Post-M&A Arbitration By Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Stuti Gadodia Introduction A crucial aspect of any M&A deal is the transfer of employees along with the Target company. This is key to maintain...
6/28/2023 6:06:55 PM U.S. Supreme Court Allows Holders of International Arbitral Awards to Bring RICO Claims to Assist in Enforcement By Thomas Walsh David Livshiz Elliot Friedman Timothy Howard Maria Slobodchikova Zachary Simon Seve Kale +4 more... Show less On June 22, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a pair of related cases, Yegiazaryan v. Smagin and CMB Monaco v. Smagin, that foreign...
6/26/2023 10:37:23 PM U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Litigation Shall be Stayed Pending Appeal of a Denial of a Motion to Compel Arbitration By Thomas Walsh Maria Slobodchikova Anika Havaldar Kaitie Holland +1 more... Show less On June 23, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Coinbase v. Bielski, ruling by a narrow majority that a U.S. district court must stay...
3/6/2023 5:26:59 PM Tenth Circuit Affirms Enforcement of Arbitral Award Annulled at Foreign Seat of Arbitration By Elliot Friedman David Livshiz Christian Vandergeest Grace Brody +1 more... Show less When an arbitration award is set aside by the courts at the seat of arbitration, and that award is then brought to U.S. courts for...
2/6/2023 4:34:49 PM Updated Data Protection and Cybersecurity Guidelines for International Arbitration By Maria Paz Lestido Lee Rovinescu Christine Lyon The international arbitration community has been increasing its attention to data protection and cybersecurity issues. Given the...
10/12/2022 1:10:10 PM We Have Lift-Off: The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation, A New Specialized Dispute-Resolution Forum for the Global Aviation Sector By Amna Arshad Nicolas Cordoba Miranda Shaw On 21 July 2022, The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (Hague CAA) officially launched. This highly specialized dispute resolution...
9/28/2022 7:31:48 PM The AAA updates its Commercial Arbitration Rules: What are the key changes? By Thomas Walsh Christian Vandergeest Peter Kim The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently issued amendments to its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The Commercial Arbitration...
9/1/2022 7:36:19 PM Arbitration Reform in Brazil Sparks Controversy over Rules for Arbitrator Appointments and Confidentiality of Proceedings By Fernanda Pires Merouco In 2021, Congresswoman Margarete Coelho (Progressive Party) introduced a bill seeking to reform the current Brazilian Arbitration Law,...