Search for:
Category

Middle East – Africa

Category

Baker McKenzie has released the 10th anniversary edition of its annual International Arbitration Yearbook, an in-depth report reviewing significant developments in international arbitration over the past 10 years across 47 jurisdictions. Section A of each country chapter gives an overview of legislative changes affecting arbitration over the past decade, and also covers relevant arbitral institutions and the development of their rules. Section B summarizes important court decisions over the period, covering those that are noteworthy…

Post-M&A arbitration has long followed an established pattern: In the course of the transaction the buyer assesses the characteristics of the target company by way of a due diligence review and based thereon determines what the buyer considers to be an adequate value of the target company. To ensure that the target company shows the expected characteristics when the buyer takes over the company from the seller, the buyer and the seller describe in their…

This article analyses the options for arbitration in the UAE, including the DIFC. It analyses the advantages and disadvantages of using the UAE or the DIFC as a seat of arbitration, including issues relating to applicable law, formalities, interim measures, confidentiality, costs, and ratification of local and foreign awards. The rapid growth of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) economy brought with it tourism, mass infrastructural projects, construction, commerce and international investment. The UAE’s exceptional growth…

Angola is to become the 157th signatory state to the New York Convention, paving the way for the first time to the effective recognition and enforcement in Angola of awards rendered outside Angola. Angola’s accession was approved by Resolution No. 38/2016 of 12 August 2016 of the Angolan National Assembly, but is yet to take effect. Angola now needs to deposit the resolution with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, with the convention then coming…