On 17 January 2023, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Timor-Leste) became the 172nd country to accede to United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958 (the New York Convention).

This landmark legislative reform is aimed at creating a more favourable and standardised legal environment for the conduct of international arbitration and the enforcement of international arbitration awards in Papua New Guinea.

On 23 April, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and Kluwer Law International, part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, hosted a panel discussion on the recent US Supreme Court decision in BG Group v. Republic of Argentina.

Mr. Berkovitz was previously a partner and Co-Chair of the Futures and Derivatives Practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

On Friday, December 5, 2014, the firm's international arbitration and litigation practice obtained a significant judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in the first freedom of expression case in the Court's history.

Nine panels involving 30 speakers focused over two days on the different avenues to resolve international environmental disputes especially in and with Small States, with environmental science and environmental and climate change politics providing the background to that discussion.

The SEC named Emily Westerberg Russell as the new Chief Counsel of the Division of Trading and Markets (the "Division").