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Chambers USA 2026 has recognized Jenner & Block’s Washington, DC office as a hub of legal excellence, with 29 individual lawyers ranked across 16 key practice areas.

Jenner & Block is pleased to announce that three of its International Arbitration lawyers have been recognised in the Arbitration Lexology Index Report, which highlights the leading arbitration practitioners worldwide and features lawyers, expert witnesses, and future leaders.

On September 17, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a policy statement (the Statement) that allows companies to include mandatory arbitration clauses in their governing documents for investor claims, reversing its longstanding practice of prohibiting companies intending to go public from doing so.

Six Jenner & Block partners have been named to Lawdragon’s 2025 “500 Leading Global Litigators” list. The award honors top litigators and trial attorneys globally.

Many readers will be familiar with the Spanish renewables saga which centers on changes made by Spain to a renewable energy support scheme in 2007, which led to over 50 investment treaty arbitrations, including a number brought by Japanese investors. The European Commission has now invoked state aid to justify the non-payment of the resulting awards against Spain.

Welcome to the first edition of the Jenner & Block India Newsletter, a publication containing updates that would be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the India legal and business communities.

The threshold for challenging awards and their enforcement in the UK remains high, a key reason why London remains one of the busiest arbitration venues in the world and a key jurisdiction for the enforcement of arbitral awards, including those against state entities. As such, there are several prominent enforcement cases pending in England which are testing the scope of the State Immunity Act 1978 (the “SIA”). In the latest decision,1Sir William Blair, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, has

As all eyes focus on peace talks and the future of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, Russia recently suffered another defeat in the long running Yukos saga, with the English Court of Appeal confirming that Russia could not invoke immunity against enforcement of the infamous Yukos award.

The wave of Russian sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine has led to counter measures by the Russian state which are now having significant practical consequences for parties caught up in disputes with Russian entities. The English High Court decision in Google LLC and others v. Nao Tsargrad Media and others1 provides a particularly noteworthy example.

On October 30, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 19 Indian private sector entities and two Indian nationals for facilitating the circumvention and evasion of US sanctions against Russia. OFAC announced its conclusion that these individuals and entities (“persons”) were involved in supplying Russia with advanced technology and dual-use equipment needed for its war in Ukraine. In total, OFAC targeted over 120 persons across 17 jurisdiction

A Jenner & Block team led by Partners Wade Thomson, Annie Kastanek, and Ken Beale secured a rare order by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacating an arbitration award against Meleveetil Damodaran, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which is akin to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In our September 2023 newsletter, we wrote about proposed amendments to the English Arbitration Act as it approaches its 30th anniversary. The proposed amendments were seen as very light touch, but included changes to:

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of six of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2024 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is a multi-nation investment treaty which protects investors from the nationalization of assets and other arbitrary and discriminatory state conduct made at the expense of investments in the energy sector. Most importantly, it provides a means for investors to make claims against member states for breaches of their obligations through international arbitration. Until recent withdrawals, members included Japan, the EU and the European states, the UK, and the former

In a decision of potential importance to arbitral award creditors and debtors, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently reversed a federal district court decision confirming an English arbitral award on the basis that the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over the award debtor.[1]The award debtor had sought to enforce its foreign award in federal court in Louisiana under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention)

English courts possess broad powers to ensure parties that agree to arbitrate are held to their agreement. This includes the ability to grant a stay of proceedings under s.9 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (“the AA 1996") if domestic court proceedings are initiated in breach of an arbitration agreement.  Recent rulings of the Supreme Court and Privy Council provide welcome clarity on how the courts approach staying proceedings involving, respectively, allegations of bribery and winding-up petitions.

In this article for Law360, Partners James Rogers and Kenneth Beale and Associate Jonathan Cowe discuss how the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted a Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Dispute Resolution, addressing transparency and independence issues in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). The code, developed over six years, reinforces arbitrators' ethical conduct and regulates the practice of "double-hatting" arbitrators who al

On 21 July 2023, as part of its 56th annual session in Vienna, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted a Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Dispute Resolution (the Code). The Code, which has been in development for over six years, is applicable to investment arbitration proceedings by consent of the parties or as required in the instrument of consent (i.e., the relevant investment treaty under which arbitration is commenced) and seeks

The English Arbitration Act of 1996 is revered as underpinning the subsequent success of London as perhaps the world’s busiest arbitration venue. However, as the Act approaches its 30th anniversary, light touch reform is being considered.

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of seven of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2023 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Charlie Lightfoot, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.