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Navigating the complexities of international arbitration in Africa requires expert guidance through the various factors specific to each jurisdiction on the continent.
Our dedicated team of international arbitration practitioners are fully equipped to help you answer those questions and to guide you through the entire process in a pragmatic and commercially driven manner - from negotiating the arbitration clause, the governing law for the agreement, choosing the appropriate seat and/or location for the arbitration hearing, selecting the most appropriate procedural rules to govern the procedure, choosing the appropriate arbitrator right through to ultimately enforcement of the award, including risk advisory services relating to bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
Our services include:
- The drafting of arbitration clauses and agreements.
- Choice of governing law.
- Appropriateness of institutional or ad-hoc arbitration, particularly in Africa.
- International investment arbitrations.
- Investment law aspects of treaty-based arbitrations.
- Risk advisory services relating bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
- Aspects relating to the rules published by various arbitration institutions.
- The choice of arbitrator.
- Interim relief.
- Procedural aspects of international arbitrations.
- Challenges to the appointment of arbitrators.
- Challenges to arbitral awards.
- Enforcement of arbitral awards.
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International Arbitration Services
Navigating the complexities of international arbitration in Africa requires expert guidance through the various factors specific to each jurisdiction on the continent.
Our dedicated team of international arbitration practitioners are fully equipped to help you answer those questions and to guide you through the entire process in a pragmatic and commercially driven manner - from negotiating the arbitration clause, the governing law for the agreement, choosing the appropriate seat and/or location for the arbitration hearing, selecting the most appropriate procedural rules to govern the procedure, choosing the appropriate arbitrator right through to ultimately enforcement of the award, including risk advisory services relating to bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
Our services include:
- The drafting of arbitration clauses and agreements.
- Choice of governing law.
- Appropriateness of institutional or ad-hoc arbitration, particularly in Africa.
- International investment arbitrations.
- Investment law aspects of treaty-based arbitrations.
- Risk advisory services relating bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.
- Aspects relating to the rules published by various arbitration institutions.
- The choice of arbitrator.
- Interim relief.
- Procedural aspects of international arbitrations.
- Challenges to the appointment of arbitrators.
- Challenges to arbitral awards.
- Enforcement of arbitral awards.
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More newsCan the parties to an arbitration agreement restrict the arbitrator’s powers to determine their procedure by way of email?
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently handed down judgment in the case of Rabinowitz v Levy and Others (1276/2022) ZASCA 8 (26 January 2024) in which it, inter alia , addressed the rights of parties in an arbitration proceeding to amend or curtail the arbitrator’s powers through email correspondence.
Capacity building and fostering expertise in international arbitration in Africa
The central theme of the Johannesburg Arbitration Week 2024 (JAW) was showcasing arbitration in Africa. This prompted engaging discussion and renewed calls for the Africanisation of international arbitration. This encompasses African disputes being arbitrated in Africa, presided over by African arbitrators, administered by African arbitral institutions, and argued by African lawyers. With expanding foreign direct investment in Africa and the expansion of BRICS to Egypt and Ethiopia, the calls to ensure that Africa has a voice in and imprint on the international arbitration proceedings it participates in are gathering momentum. This ensures that Africa’s unique priorities and experiences are sufficiently taken intoconsideration.
Arbitration on top or a comeback for the courts?
A key discussion point at the inaugural Johannesburg Arbitration Week was the expansion of the use of international arbitration to resolve commercial disputes in Africa. In many instances this has been at the expense of the courts, with parties increasingly preferring to arbitrate rather than litigate.