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 newsDetermining the law governing an arbitration agreement: Lessons from the UK for South Africa
As with all agreements, knowing and understanding which law governs an arbitration agreement is imperative for the parties for legal certainty and predictability. What most business people (even many commercial drafters) do not realise is that an arbitration clause in a main agreement is usually severable and is an agreement on its own, with an independent and separate existence from the substantive main agreement. For that reason, when we refer to arbitration agreement in this article, we refer to an arbitration clause in a main agreement.
Chasing evidence overseas for a local arbitration. A fool’s errand?
As a general principle a court in one country has no authority to make orders effective in another country, either at all or at least absent compliance with legislation and process in that other country. That stands to reason and is bound up in concepts of sovereignty and jurisdiction.
Navigating commercial risk during uncertain times in Africa: When the law is Foreign
In Africa, a significant number of international commercial contracts are governed by English law. When concluding cross-border or international commercial transactions most parties do not give much attention to the governing law clause or for that matter, the dispute resolution clause. It’s only when trouble strikes and advice is sought from lawyers on performance obligations that attention is given to the law governing the interpretation of contractual provisions such as force majeure .