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SCC Arbitration Institute Explores Security for Costs in International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

The parties’ “war chests” and ever escalating party costs raise questions of equality of arms in the proceedings and affect their willingness to enter into settlement negotiations as well as the terms of such settlement. This finding reflects the exceptional nature of a grant of security for costs and the high threshold applied by tribunals.

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Recent Dubai Court of Cassation Judgments: Is Arbitration an Exceptional Means of Resolving Disputes?

Kluwer Arbitration

993 of 2017 of 4 February 2018, which held that arbitration is an equally valid dispute resolution forum as litigation and Case No. 993 of 2017 The Appellant, a distributor, and the Respondent, a foreign distributor, entered into an agreement on the distribution of a specific range of sports products in various territories.

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Violations of Competition Law as Grounds for Setting Aside Arbitral Awards: Lessons from the Paris Court of Appeal in GBO v. CAI

Kluwer Arbitration

In 2017, CAI granted a license to GBO to use CAI’s trademarks, such as Disney, for the purpose of distributing CAI’s branded shoes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Despite negotiations, GBO notified CAI that the agreement was terminated, alleging several breaches. CAI manufactured shoes in Asia.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

These percentages are the result of political negotiations and, consequently, debatable, particularly since knowledge mega-enterprises look set to become ever larger in the future and will reside mostly in developed economies, limiting the laudable redistributive function. They also do not include the introduction of a general QDMT.

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Turning up the Heat on Tech Investors: Navigating the New “Tech Cold War”

Kluwer Arbitration

Countries are enacting new national security laws to limit foreign influence, including China’s 2017 National Security Law; the US’s 2022 National Security Strategy; and the EU’s 2023 Economic Security Strategy. a negotiation period, time limitations, or excluded disputes).

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English Court of Appeal Introduces Uncertainty as to the Scope of Commercial Anti-Assignment Provisions

Kluwer Arbitration

The decision will also be of interest to insurers, banks and any other third parties who deal with contractual rights arising under an English law contract containing a prohibition on assignment. Delivery was delayed and MBA agreed to pay liquidated damages to the JCG.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

18] And, for DoD, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) 216.203-4 limits the use of the FAR EPA clauses to DoD contracts that exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (presently $250,000 with exceptions), and performance is longer than six months. [19] GAO’s competitive prejudice threshold should be similar.