Arbitral Insights

Partner Donald Sham and associate Clara Fung discuss why 2020 was an encouraging year for Hong Kong as an international arbitration centre. Find out what advantages Hong Kong holds as an arbitral seat, and learn the impacts that newly introduced arrangements with Mainland China will have on the future of Hong Kong arbitration.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

LCIA President Paula Hodges QC joins international arbitration lawyer Ben Love to discuss the LCIA’s most recent arbitration rules, which include revisions addressing remote proceedings and electronic communications, expedited procedures, consolidation and composite requests, tribunal secretaries, and early determination.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

Hear international arbitration lawyer JP Duffy and Claudia Salomon, the ICC International Court of Arbitration’s president-elect, discuss new ICC guidelines relating to: joinders and consolidations; remote proceedings; third-party funding; representation; inequality of tribunal appointments; and expedited procedures.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

New York international arbitration counsel Ben Love discusses decommissioning in the upstream oil and gas industry with Chris Moyes, president, and Chris Moore, managing director, at global advisory and consulting firm Moyes & Co. The Q&A session covers: the evolution of decommissioning arrangements; prominent decommissioning models; various forms of decommissioning disputes; how issues can be avoided; and developments around decommissioning in joint operating agreements.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

Partner Gautam Bhattacharyya and associate Catherine Lewis explore common circumstances that lead to conflicts over jurisdictions in international arbitration. Jurisdictional problems impact a whole range of entities (such as international firms operating in many jurisdictions) and contractual arrangements (such as multiple contracts that may overlap in time, geography and/or subject matter). The duo discuss what happens when a breach of arbitration agreements occurs, how to enforce arbitration agreements and whether this will be a continuing feature of international arbitration.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

New York-based partner JP Duffy and London-based partner Iqbal Hussain explore why international arbitration creates an environment where disputes can be brought without destroying business relationships. They discuss how alternative resolution is a contributing factor to long-term collaborations, in the second episode of our life sciences focused podcast miniseries.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

Hear stories about how to best manage sub-optimal situations in international arbitration. Middle East Office Managing Partner Sachin Kerur and Dubai-based associates Jane Miles and Alison Eslick provide case studies of ‘arbitrations gone wrong,’ from non-forthcoming witnesses to the death of an arbitrator. 

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

Selecting the right arbitrator is critical to ensure that proceedings run smoothly and efficiently, and that a fair and well-reasoned outcome is reached. Dubai-based associate Alison Eslick explores how appointing the right arbitrator for your matter is perhaps more of an art than a science, and shares examples of five types of arbitrator you may come across when making your decision.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

In the first of our Arbitral Insights’ India-focused miniseries, two international dispute resolution lawyers discuss how COVID-19 has impacted arbitration in India, including: their own experiences of remote hearings; new best practices arbitrators are using; and what the future holds in terms of technological and other innovations in arbitration. Reed Smith international arbitration lawyer Gautam Bhattacharyya is joined by Shreyas Jayasimha, a counsel, arbitrator and mediator who is also founding partner of Aarna Law in Bangalore, India.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.

Reed Smith partner JP Duffy discusses the benefits of using international arbitration to settle disputes in life sciences industries. This is the first session in an Arbitral Insights life sciences miniseries.

For more information, please visit Reed Smith's International Arbitration page.