In a recent case, the Swiss Federal Court upheld an arbitral award declining jurisdiction over a dual national’s claim against Venezuela under the Spain-Venezuela BIT. It confirmed that the BIT is…
As part of the 2024 Year in Review series, this post highlights the most significant arbitration-related decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“SFSC”) in 2024. The 2024 decisions provide…
The Swiss Arbitration Summit is back! Following the resounding success from its first edition in Geneva last year, the second edition of the Summit is scheduled to take place this year in Zurich from…
Over the last decade, the Czech Republic has defeated several treaty claims that were brought by investors following reforms in the Czech solar power sector. The state's winning streak ended in June…
On 11 June 2024, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (the “Court”) rendered another pair of decisions in the high-stakes arbitration saga Crescent Petroleum Co. International Ltd. ("Crescent") v.…
On 26 April 2024, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“SFSC”) rendered decision 4A_486/2023, upholding the unpublished Final Award in Clorox Spain S.L. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“Clorox v.…
On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (“Court” or “ECtHR”) delivered its highly anticipated ruling in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (“KlimaSeniorinnen”),…
This post highlights the most significant arbitration-related decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ("SFSC") in 2023 that are of interest to the international arbitration community at large.…
Part II of the 2023 Year in Review: Switzerland post (see Part I here) introduces new case law on the enforcement of arbitral awards. It also includes a continuation of the Swiss Federal Supreme…
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (the “Court”) recently outlined when a subsequently discovered ground for challenge of an arbitrator can be a possible ground for review of an award. The present post…
