Arbitration and ADR

Parties to a cross-border contract frequently prefer arbitration to litigation in either party’s national courts. That preference is only effective if the arbitration clause is drafted to work — an agreement that names a non-existent institution, or is silent on seat and governing law, produces a dispute about the forum before the dispute itself can be heard.

Digests Global Law Firm advises on the resolution of commercial disputes by arbitration and by other means outside the courts.

Our practice in this area covers:

• Drafting arbitration and dispute resolution clauses, including the choice of institution, seat, governing law, language and number of arbitrators
• Representation in international commercial arbitration and in arbitration before the Tashkent International Arbitration Centre
• Arbitration under the rules of the principal institutions, and ad hoc arbitration
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Uzbekistan under the New York Convention, and applications to set an award aside
• Investment disputes involving states and state entities
• Mediation and negotiated settlement

We advise at the contract stage on which forum is realistically enforceable against the counterparty in question, since an award that cannot be enforced where the assets are is of limited value.