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CIAC Files Arbitration Amicus Brief to CA Supreme Court
Last week, the California International Arbitration Council (“CIAC”) filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of California in the Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII v. Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd. case. Because [...]
EU & China Release Joint Statement Following 21st Summit
On April 9, 2019, after the 21st EU-China Summit, the two world leaders released a joint statement reaffirming their partnership. In 2012, the EU and China jointly announced open treaty negotiations and the start [...]
Sweden’s Revised Arbitration Act Takes Effect
Sweden’s newly revised Arbitration Act, passed on November 21, 2018, went into effect on March 1, 2019. An English translation can be found here. The revisions aim to modernize Sweden’s arbitral systems to maintain [...]
AT&T Implements Baseball Arbitration to Save Time Warner Merger
The AT&T / Time Warner merger has been a subject of antitrust controversy for quite some time. Although vertical mergers are generally less-heavily scrutinized than horizontal mergers, the U.S. Department of Justice fought to [...]
Uber’s Arbitration Clause Deemed Unconscionable in Canada Court of Appeals
In the Ontario Court of Appeal’s first decision of 2019, the Court unanimously reversed a stay of proceedings and allowed a class action suit to continue within the judicial system, despite an arbitration clause [...]
China & Singapore Agree to Assemble Multi-National BRI Mediation Panel
During the opening speech of the China-Singapore International Commercial Dispute Resolution Conference, held on January 24, Senior Minister of State for Health and Law Edwin Tong announced China and Singapore’s agreement to assemble a [...]
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