A well-drafted arbitration clause is only the first step. The moment a dispute crystallizes, the choice of arbitrator and how carefully that arbitrator screens ...

Not every dispute with a foreign government belongs in ordinary commercial arbitration. Many investors only discover this once a regulatory decision has ...

Few sectors generate disputes as varied, technically dense or geopolitically charged as metals and mining. A single mine may sit at the intersection of a state ...

A shipment of steel leaves Mumbai bound for Houston. A software license is signed between a Bangalore start-up and a buyer in Berlin. A letter of credit moves ...

Trade between the United States and India has grown quickly enough that the contracts underpinning it have started to outpace the legal thinking around them. ...

When a cross-border contract goes wrong and the parties turn to arbitration rather than the courts, the single most consequential decision they will make is ...

There is a peculiar assumption in cross-border dispute resolution that expertise must be narrow to be credible. Such a shipping dispute needs a maritime ...

When an Indian manufacturer and an American buyer fall out over a shipment, a software license or a half-finished construction project, the instinct is often ...

One of the earliest and most consequential decisions parties face, whether at the contract-drafting stage or once a dispute has already arisen, is whether to ...