The OHADA Arbitration Act is potentially applicable for arbitrations with their seat in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire), the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Niger, the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Senegal, Chad and Togo. The OHADA (Organisation pour l’harmonisation en Afrique du […]
The ICC Rules of Arbitration (2012)
ICC Rules of Arbitration (2012) These ICC Rules of Arbitration are current as of June 2014. The ICC Rules of Arbitration may be used internationally to resolve international commercial arbitrations as well as to resolve investment treaty arbitrations in certain cases. They are appropriate to be used for nearly all international business disputes. A full-text version of the […]
International Arbitration in Africa
Many practitioners and arbitrators are unfamiliar with international arbitration in Africa and have very little actual experience with it. Yet, sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions where the use of international arbitration to resolve international disputes is expanding the most swiftly in the world. This should come as no surprise, as the International Monetary […]