October 15, 2021
Jones Swanson files new case at ICSID
Jones Swanson represents the Turkish construction company Bayindir in a case against Pakistan at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The Ankara-based company filed its claim under the 1995 Turkey-Pakistan bilateral investment treaty. Read article…
February 11, 2018
Third-party funding at the heart of possible international rules changes
Third-party funding has become increasingly common in international arbitration disputes worldwide, and several of the field’s leading organizations are taking that fact into account as they update their rules. In January, The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) announced that it was…
September 7, 2016
Jones Swanson, Fishman Haygood collaborate to form new international arbitration practice
NEW ORLEANS, LA (September 7, 2016) – Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, LLC is pleased to announce its alliance with the New Orleans and Baton Rouge firm of Fishman Haygood to develop a new international arbitration practice. Jones Swanson and Fishman Haygood have collaborated for years on numerous projects. This is the first time, however,…
March 24, 2016
Investor state dispute settlement and the $50 billion case
On July 18, 2014, an arbitral tribunal sitting in The Hague ordered the Russian Federation to pay shareholders of the defunct oil company Yukos an unprecedented sum of damages — $50 billion, plus $60 million in legal fees and costs. One year later, after Russia had made no move…
