As part of the Paris Arbitration Week, Dr. Hamid Gharavi gave an interview to the Indian law firm Nishith Desai on 4 April 2019 on the subject of judicial expropriation in bilateral investment treaties. Please follow this link to watch the interview on Nishith TV.
Melanie van Leeuwen will chair, on behalf of the IBA, the ICCA-IBA Joint Task Force to produce a guide to data protection issues in international arbitration. A draft guide for public comment will then be published in March 2019. For more information on the subject please follow the following link ICCA-IBA joint task force on data protection in international arbitration proceedings
Derains & Gharavi will be hosting the breakfast seminar “Pre- and Post-Award Attachment – Tried and Tested Enforcement through the Netherlands” on Wednesday 3 April 2019 from 8:30 am until 10:30 am (Centre Etoile Saint Honoré, 21-25, rue Balzac, 75008 Paris, Salon Véga), during the Paris Arbitration Week (PAW).
The Netherlands plays a central role in the corporate structuring and tax planning of internationally active corporates. The jurisdiction is also popular with several states for the purposes of sovereign wealth management. An interesting asset position, combined with the liberal Dutch system of leave for attachment and enforcement, make the Netherlands an interesting jurisdiction to obtain security for claims prior to and during arbitrations, and to enforce arbitral awards once the arbitral proceedings are completed.
During this breakfast seminar we will uncover the legal avenues available to litigants to secure their claims and to enforce arbitral awards on assets located in and structured through the Netherlands. Together with guest speaker, Gerard Meijer (professor Erasmus University Rotterdam and admitted to practice in Amsterdam), Derains & Gharavi’s Melanie van Leeuwen and Sophia von Dewall (admitted to practice in Amsterdam and Paris) will discuss a number of recent cases, in which generous security was obtained and awards were successfully enforced in the Netherlands.
For registration, please send an email with your name and affiliation to Ms. Geertje Foucault (gfoucault@derainsgharavi.com). Limited places available.
Derains & Gharavi will be hosting the 2nd Edition of the Lusophones’ Arbitration Meeting on Thursday 4 April 2019 from 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm (Centre Etoile Saint Honoré, 21-25, rue Balzac, 75008 Paris, Salon Boréal), during the Paris Arbitration Week (PAW).
This year the participants will discuss “The New Digital Economy and Arbitration”, with three Panels about the following subtopics:
Panel I: Dispute Resolution in the “New” Digital Economy (NDE)
Panel II: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Arbitration
Panel III: Predictions and Big Data: Expectations, Possibilities and Limits in Arbitration
This event will be conducted in Portuguese.
The full programme is available here.
For registration, please send an email with your name and affiliation to Dr. Ana Gerdau de Borja Mercereau (agerdaudeborja@derainsgharavi.com). Limited places available.
Melanie van Leeuwen will speak at the “The Future of International Arbitration” conference organised by KNect365 Law. She will co-lead the panel dedicated to the following subject: “technology and arbitration: in danger of being too comfortable bedfellows?”. The conference will take place in London on 26 March 2019.