India slipped from being one of the five countries with the highest number of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitrations in 2012, to bringing the 10^th highest number of ICC arbitrations in 2014, according to data from the International Chamber of Commerce, where India lost its four-year lead on China after 2012.

Hengeler Mueller advised auto ancilliaries company Varroc Engineering India on the enforcement of an arbitration award it won at the International Court of Arbitration (ICC) in Singapore. Hengeler Mueller disputes partner Carsten van de Sande and associates Johanna Peters, Liliane Djahangir and Abhi...

Former Clifford Chance foreign legal consultant Pranav Mago is now heading the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) South Asia. Mago took over the role on 17 August from Scheherazade Dubash.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Fox Mandal advised South Korean steel major Posco in the Supreme Court (SC), challenging the Orissa High Court’s decision to set aside the state government recommending a preferential grant to mine iron ore. JSA Delhi dispute resolution partners Amar Gupta, Dheeraj Nair ...

Luthra & Luthra has won an anti-arbitration injunction for Sony-owned Multi Screen Media Satellite (MSMS) against former Indian Premier League (IPL) sports marketing company World Sports Group (WSG) restraining it from invoking or continuing with any international arbitration.

This week’s The Firm asks whether we are doing too little too late about sexual harassment as the Protection Against Sexual Harassment of Women Bill still awaits enactment long after the government promised to put sexual harassment laws on the books 13 years ago.

India’s minister of law and justice Veerappa Moily unveiled a “national litigation policy” today under which the government “must cease to be a compulsive litigant” by creating a new layer of supervisory bureaucracy, reducing appeals and reviewing all existing cases, while tightening legal panels and increasing fees of lawyers representing the government.

Parliament has passed the National Green Tribunal Bill (NGB), which paves the way for the setting up of four mobile ‘green tribunals’ to speedily adjudicate environmental disputes and resolve over 5,000 pending environmental cases.

India’s law ministry has proposed to nullify the controversial Supreme Court judgement of Venture Global Engineering vs Satyam Computers Services by amending the Arbitration Act and preventing Indian courts from challenging international arbitral awards. Other proposals include making institutional arbitration mandatory for disputes over Rs 5 crores and narrowing “public policy” in light of the ONGC v Saw Pipes case.