International Arbitration Services
Navigating the complexities of international arbitration in Africa requires expert guidance through the various factors specific to each jurisdiction on the continent.
Our dedicated team of international arbitration practitioners are fully equipped to help you answer those questions and to guide you through the entire process in a pragmatic and commercially driven manner - from negotiating the arbitration clause, the governing law for the agreement, choosing the appropriate seat and/or location for the arbitration hearing, selecting the most appropriate procedural rules to govern the procedure, choosing the appropriate arbitrator right through to ultimately enforcement of the award, including risk advisory services relating to bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
Our services include:
- The drafting of arbitration clauses and agreements.
- Choice of governing law.
- Appropriateness of institutional or ad-hoc arbitration, particularly in Africa.
- International investment arbitrations.
- Investment law aspects of treaty-based arbitrations.
- Risk advisory services relating bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
- Aspects relating to the rules published by various arbitration institutions.
- The choice of arbitrator.
- Interim relief.
- Procedural aspects of international arbitrations.
- Challenges to the appointment of arbitrators.
- Challenges to arbitral awards.
- Enforcement of arbitral awards.
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International Arbitration Services
Navigating the complexities of international arbitration in Africa requires expert guidance through the various factors specific to each jurisdiction on the continent.
Our dedicated team of international arbitration practitioners are fully equipped to help you answer those questions and to guide you through the entire process in a pragmatic and commercially driven manner - from negotiating the arbitration clause, the governing law for the agreement, choosing the appropriate seat and/or location for the arbitration hearing, selecting the most appropriate procedural rules to govern the procedure, choosing the appropriate arbitrator right through to ultimately enforcement of the award, including risk advisory services relating to bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
Our services include:
- The drafting of arbitration clauses and agreements.
- Choice of governing law.
- Appropriateness of institutional or ad-hoc arbitration, particularly in Africa.
- International investment arbitrations.
- Investment law aspects of treaty-based arbitrations.
- Risk advisory services relating bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
- Aspects relating to the rules published by various arbitration institutions.
- The choice of arbitrator.
- Interim relief.
- Procedural aspects of international arbitrations.
- Challenges to the appointment of arbitrators.
- Challenges to arbitral awards.
- Enforcement of arbitral awards.
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More newsCan the parties to an arbitration agreement restrict the arbitrator’s powers to determine their procedure by way of email?
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently handed down judgment in the case of Rabinowitz v Levy and Others (1276/2022) ZASCA 8 (26 January 2024) in which it, inter alia , addressed the rights of parties in an arbitration proceeding to amend or curtail the arbitrator’s powers through email correspondence.
Early Detection of Fraud and/or Corruption in Arbitrations: Lessons from the Recent English Court Decisions?
Two recent English Commercial Court decisions serve as a warning to dishonest parties hoping to exploit the arbitral process to obtain or enforce fraudulent or corrupt arbitration awards. The English courts generally follow a non-interventionist approach when it comes to the challenge of enforcement of arbitral awards. However, these recent decisions signify that the Commercial Court can and will use its statutory powers to intervene, investigate and order disclosure to uphold the legitimacy of the arbitral process and parties’rights.
Pipped at the post? (the pitfall of instituting a claim in the wrong forum and how this relates to the relevant arbitration clause and underlying agreement)
As a result of court backlogs and delays, and the public nature of court hearings, it has become common place for commercial contracts to include an arbitration clause. Arbitrations are a form of alternative dispute resolution whereby a dispute is resolved through a private procedure before an arbitrator instead of a judge. An arbitration clause normally seeks to include all disputes between the parties arising out of an agreement.