Latest Post
Piercing the Veil of Veil-Piercing
Alter ego entities are a pervasive presence in complex international commercial arbitrations If those entities are named as Respondents, and they are non-signatories of the arbitration agreement, two procedural courses are possible. The first, and perhaps the more common, is that the alter egos will raise an objection to arbitral jurisdiction, and participate in the arbitration subject to that objection. This participation may or may not entail an express submission of the alter ego issue to the arbitrators – and whether there has been such a submission of course affects the scope of judicial review of the Tribunal’s decision on…
Read More »