Construction

• We successfully represented a contractor against the Republic of Guinea in an action to confirm and enforce an arbitration award against corporate shareholdings of Guinea in Delaware.
• We represented a European company in an ICC arbitration against a ministry of the State of Libya over a construction claim concerning a plant in Libya, which ended favorably for our client. The award was later enforced by UK courts.
• We represented a German manufacturer in an ICC arbitration in London against a major Indian wind energy company. The tribunal made an award by consent awarding substantial payment in favor of our client. We also assisted our client in successfully enforcing the award in the High Court in London.
• We represented a Tanzania-based subcontractor company in an ICC arbitration arising out of a dispute with a US-based contractor company. We prevailed in the arbitration and were subsequently successful in enforcing the ICC award and also obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction in the English courts in order to obtain payment from the US-based contractor company.

Financial Services

• We successfully represented a Swiss bank in recovering funds defrauded from it, including in actions in Utah, Gibraltar, Spain, and the BVI.
• We represented a Chinese bank in proceedings to recover over RMB 900 million of outstanding loans and enforce against properties provided as guarantees, including litigation against the borrowers and guarantors in Hong Kong and obtaining a winding-up order.
• We advised a financial institution on a cross-border recovery action and the realization of securities in Hong Kong, PRC, and Macau, involving loans of US$100 million and HK$400 million.
• We represented a syndicate of Taiwanese banks on the recovery of outstanding loans (US$800 million) and the enforcement against properties provided as guarantees, including winding-up applications, the appointment of provisional liquidators, and litigation in the PRC.
• We represented a bank where a fraudster had forged instructions from the bank’s customer and withdrawn funds from the customer’s account. We recovered more than HK$40 million for the bank by tracing the funds, filing claims, and applying for interim injunctions against the recipients of the relevant funds.
• We advised a leading Japanese banking corporation that was the victim of a sophisticated fraud in its US operations. We obtained injunctions and initiated recovery proceedings in the High Court of Hong Kong leading to the recovery of most of the proceeds.

Hospitality

• We represent leading casinos in the United States and Asia in tracing assets and enforcing judgments against various high-net-worth debtors in jurisdictions around the world, including offshore jurisdictions.

Manufacturing

• We represented a US-based company in two related SIAC arbitrations arising out of two joint venture disputes with a PRC partner. We prevailed in the arbitrations and enforced the US$42 million SIAC arbitration award before the Supreme People’s Court of China, getting all of the money out of the PRC and into our client’s US-based bank account.

Oil and Gas

• We represented a South American state-owned oil and gas company in a post-M&A representation, warranty, and indemnification arbitration under New York law and ICDR rules and in related federal court litigation seeking to enforce a favorable award.
• We represented an oil and gas company against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in an action to confirm an arbitration award as a precursor to judgment enforcement against assets in the United States.
• We successfully represented a defendant resisting the enforcement of a US$40 million ICC London seat award in Singapore and India. We were co-counsel in the Singapore High Court proceedings and achieved a highly successful settlement for our client, resulting in a 70% reduction in the liability.

Personal Injury

• We successfully obtained multimillion judgments for victims of terrorism and are enforcing those judgments against the US assets of the judgment debtors and their agencies/instrumentalities.

Real Estate

• We represented a Canadian investor against the United Mexican States in an action to confirm a NAFTA arbitration award in US courts as a precursor to judgment enforcement against Mexican assets in the United States.
• We advised a leading developer in Hong Kong and successfully defended an action to enforce a CIETAC arbitration award in a cross-border joint venture dispute involving the development of land in Xiamen, China.

Renewable Energy

• We successfully represented a US clean energy company that was a victim of fraud concerning a turnkey hydroelectric project in Mexico—obtaining a US arbitral award, having it confirmed in Hong Kong, and collecting assets held by the debtor’s bank in Hong Kong.
• We represented a UK clean energy company in obtaining an arbitration award against Chinese defendants and coordinated with Mayer Brown’s Hong Kong office to successfully enforce an arbitration award to recover funds from the defendants’ Hong Kong bank account.

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

• We advised one of Korea’s most prominent media and entertainment groups on asset tracing taking place in three different countries in connection with the enforcement of a partial award that we had secured for our clients at an earlier stage of proceedings.

• We represented a South Asian state before the Washington DC courts in opposing confirmation of the ICSID award. The petition to confirm the award has been dismissed by mutual agreement.
• We successfully represented a major Asian state-owned enterprise in an arbitration case against a US company. The New York court confirmed the substantial award, and we enforced the judgment against the assets of the US company and its affiliates.
• We acted for the Republic of The Gambia in ICSID annulment proceedings, successfully staying enforcement of the award unconditionally (a rare outcome in ICSID annulment proceedings).
• We represented a financial institution pursuing a cross-border enforcement strategy against a state in over six jurisdictions to recover assets and satisfy substantial judgments against that state. This involved addressing immunity issues, service issues, and related enforcement matters.
• We advised an Asian governmental entity on legal, procedural, and tactical considerations concerning the enforcement of treaty arbitration awards, including enforcement options, sovereign/state immunity objections, and practical strategies for the state to guard against enforcement exposure.
• We successfully assisted an African state in its efforts to resist the enforcement of an arbitral award in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.*

* includes experience of Mayer Brown lawyers prior to joining the firm.