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Greenberg Traurig LLP | USA | 20 Jul 2023
Nazi-Looted Art: One Painting, Two Owners, and Two Laws in Conflict: Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
For nearly two decades, the fate of Camille Pissaro’s Rue St. Honoré, après midi, effet de pluie (Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain)…
Sidley Austin LLP | USA | 19 Apr 2023
Supreme Court Rejects Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Protection In Criminal Prosecutions
In a landmark decision with vast implications for foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities and international organizations, the U.S. Supreme…
Norton Rose Fulbright | Global | 19 Jan 2023
Impact of current geopolitical climate on award enforcement against states
🕑 6 minutes Where a state fails to voluntarily comply with an arbitral award, award creditors face the daunting task of pursing enforcement against state assets wherever they may be found in the world. This has posed a perennial challenge for award creditors against Russia. The current geopolitical climate may, however, be changing that enforcement landscape.
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | USA | 8 Aug 2022
US Senate Calls for Designation of Russia as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
On July 27, 2022, the US Senate unanimously passed a nonbinding, bipartisan resolution to designate the Russian Federation as a “State Sponsor of…
Epstein Becker Green | USA | 21 Apr 2022
Supreme Court Decides Five Cases, Some of Which Lay Down Markers That Could Impact Future Decisions: SCOTUS Today
Auguring a flood of opinions in the remaining weeks of the term, the Supreme Court decided five cases today. Some of them offer support for the…
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | USA | 15 Mar 2022
D.C. Circuit Holds FSIA’s Arbitration Exception to Sovereign Immunity Applies Regardless of Annulment of Award at Seat of Arbitration
On March 11, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit clarified whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction under the Foreign…
Jones Day | USA | 9 Feb 2021
Supreme Court: FSIA's Expropriation Exception Applies Only to Sovereign's Taking of Foreigner's Property
The Supreme Court in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19-351, 592 U.S. __ (2021), held that the FSIA's expropriation exception to sovereign…
Twenty Essex | Germany, USA | 4 Feb 2021
US Supreme Court upholds Germany’s plea of State immunity in the “Welfenschatz” case
In September 2019, Professor Stefan Talmon joined eight other eminent international law experts in submitting an amicus curiae brief to the US…
Ropes & Gray LLP | USA | 3 Mar 2020
Justices Seem Poised To Increase Cos.' Liability Overseas
For corporations that are increasingly targets of lawsuits seeking to impose retroactive liability for their overseas activities, the Feb. 24 oral…
Baker McKenzie | Switzerland, USA | 21 Nov 2019
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. District court rejects that objects seized pursuant to valid search and seizure warrants were taken in violation of international law so no exception to sovereign immunity applied.
Aboutaam v. L'Office Federale de la Culture de la Confederation Suisse, No. 1:18-cv-08248 (S.D.N.Y. Sep. 24, 2019) [click for opinion] Plaintiff…
