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Developments in Arbitration in 2025: Regional and Global Perspectives.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s disputes teams invite you to join our dynamic speed-networking format during Dubai Arbitration Week. Building on the positive feedback from last year, we will examine key trends shaping the regional arbitration landscape in 2025, offering insights from our regional and international lawyers.
Participants will move around small group discussions led by our senior lawyers. This format provides a unique opportunity to connect with peers and contribute to conversations around the issues that matter most in arbitration today.
EU Law and International Arbitration in Focus: Overview of 2025 Developments
The event is a continuation of a series of events at 2024 Dubai Arbitration Week, where the experts of LGP, together with a group of fellow practitioners, discussed main takeaways of 2024 from the field of sanctions in EU, Switzerland, UK, US.
This year, the focus of the panel is arbitration, investment and commercial, including the following issues:
- 18th EU sanctions package, as well as previous EU sanctions regulations’ impact on arbitration, investment and commercial.
- 2025 court practice of CJEU and national courts of EU Member States, new requests for preliminary ruling to CJEU, (non)-recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in sanctions disputes.
- 2025 updates in intra-EU BIT arbitrations, inter alia anti-arbitration injunctions, resistance to enforcement of the intra-EU BIT awards, infringement proceedings against EU Member States.
Fraud and Arbitration: a view from England and the UAE / Middle East
A discussion of how the courts in England and the UAE deal with allegations of fraud, and what practitioners can do.
Issues to be discussed will include:
- Standard of proof (both during arbitration and in setting-aside/enforcement proceedings). “Red flags” v “smoking guns”.
Ethical obligations: when can fraud be pleaded? - Difference between fraud discovered during the arbitration, raised as a ground for setting-aside or as a defence to enforcement
Categories of fraud / illegality - Procedural fraud during the arbitration
- Confidentiality in major arbitrations involving a State
Ciarb UAE Branch Event
This in-person event explores whether modern arbitration is advancing or losing momentum. Join us and leading figures from Ciarb, top practitioners, experts, and arbitral institutions for a dynamic discussion on the trends reshaping dispute resolution. We will explore what’s driving increased contention, what it means for the future of arbitration, and how to strike the right balance between fairness and efficiency.