US law firms are benefiting from Iberian infrastructure and capital markets investment in both North America and Latin America...

Mexico's sweeping judicial reforms are expected to be implemented from June 2025. They may present formidable challenges, given the scale of the reforms as well as the size and importance of the country and its economy.

A few weeks ago, for London International Disputes Week, I organised an event which looked at this question. As it was of interest, I decided to share my views more openly...

After a stormy year, the major arbitration centers across the globe kicked off the year 2021 with brand new rules of procedure.

It wasn't so long ago that mergers and acquisitions were the axes around which London's legal universe evolved. Indeed, elite UK law firms spent 2006 and the first half of 2007 basking in the radiance of record-breaking M&A activity.

With Collaborative Intelligence, legal leaders will no longer have to chase compliance. It empowers the legal team for operational efficiencies.

African governments have grown wise to the fact that arbitration can be a source of economic activity, with conference centres, hotels and local lawyers set to benefit.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Chilean firm Carey have helped a consortium led by Japanese trading company Sojitz Corporation obtain financing for a solar project in northern Chile.

The last March 19, 2010 came into force the AGREEMENT by means of which the preceding agreement that establishes the guidelines for filing applications before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (MIIP), issued by the General Director of the MIIP and published in the Official Journal of the Federation on March 18, 2010, was modified.

Multijurisdictional merger filings have multiplied in recent years in line with the proliferation of merger regimes around the world.

An adjudication decision in favour of Tyroddy was held not to be enforceable because the adjudicator had failed to consider a defence put forward by Harrington.

The likes of Karen Seward, Natasha Harrison and Melissa Butler also talk about the main challenges facing female lawyers and the most common mistakes and misconceptions affecting women in law.

In this edition of Who Wins, Where and Why?, I have the privilege to write about my adoptive home – Paris, France.

London arbitration remains attractive to commercial parties because English law treats arbitration awards as final and binding, while the English courts continue to adopt a restrained approach to intervention.

Various arbitral institutions have started to address when and how a party needs to disclose the existence of a third-party funder.

Allowing third party funding in arbitration proceedings is a positive step forward for both Singapore and Hong Kong.

Arbitration is not always a high priority for in-house counsel, who rarely get to shape its rules and procedures to be user-friendly. Challenging this state of affairs is Jean-Claude Najar, a senior in-house counsel for GE in Paris, and founder and chair of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG).

International arbitration, being a transnational field, necessitates a global outlook and consistent interchange and reciprocation of ideas and judicial practices between jurisdictions.

Construction, Property & Real Estate round-up.