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Africa is in an era of significant growth and transformation: its population is expected to double by 2060, while economic growth in...
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On 12 November 2025, Meg Kinnear, who served as ICSID Secretary-General from 2009 until 2024, delivered the 40th Freshfields Arbitration...
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On 18 September 2025, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, Constitutional Court published two closely...
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The European Union’s recent approval of its 19th Sanctions Package marks a pivotal shift in its stance on Russian energy. A central...
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On 4 June 2025, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (the Centre) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) launched a (now closed) public...
On 10 November 2025, the England & Wales High Court delivered an important decision in OperaFund Eco-Invest and Schwab Holding v. Spain,...
From data-crunching to dialogue: AI's evolving role in arbitration Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept in the legal...
The following article was co-authored by Matheus Bastos Oliveira and Gustavo Santos Kulesza. It was published by Kluwer Arbitration Blog...
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On 3 September 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) submitted two proposals for the signing and provisional application of...
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On 4 June 2025, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (the Centre) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) launched a (now closed) public...
Earlier this month, the Governing Board (the Board) of the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (the Fund) held its...
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On 29 August 2025, the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) confirmed that four ICSID awards rendered under the Energy Charter Treaty...
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Generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, and international arbitration is no exception. At Freshfields, we...
On 4 June 2025, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Unified Patent Court (Centre) launched a public consultation to gather...
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On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its 18th sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Alongside a...
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As discussed in our previous update, in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) removed...