Andrew Mizner

The US firm has hired a leading academic, counsel and arbitrator from Clyde & Co, adding a figure who has played a central role in London's arbitration community. US law firm Steptoe has hired Professor Loukas Mistelis as a partner in its London international arbitration practice. The hire was announced on Tuesday (16 June). Professor Mistelis, who announced that “key clients” are moving with him, spent the last four years as a partner at Clyde & Co, and works as counsel and

Leading arbitration practitioners from South Africa, Kenya and France have joined the body which oversees the Southern African arbitral institution.

The crypto sector's desire to ‘move fast and break things' means that speed is of the essence when managing fraud risk and resolving disputes, according to lawyers and technologists at an event in London. Companies and investors in the crypto-asset and blockchain industries are at great risk of fraud and have very specific needs when it comes to dispute resolution. That was the consensus view of private practice lawyers, in-house counsel and technology specialists speaking at the Global

Collective redress considered a more trustworthy way of securing compensation than government bodies including Trading Standards and ombudsmen.

Jade Tess Weiner of Angeion Group International considers differing philosophies in mass litigation settlement, and how game theory reshapes strategic outcomes.

Disputes involving cryptocurrencies, digital tokens and other assets require a fresh approach to planning, writes Shan Greer of the BVI International Arbitration Centre.

The Malagasy court has confirmed the government's right to seize land sold to foreigners during the country's colonial era.

New notes aim to ‘establish a clear and robust regulatory regime' for any institution issuing or trading in virtual assets within the island state.

The US firm has continued the run of recent additions to its investigations practice, with the hire of a former prosecutor, the second US white-collar departure from Freshfields in the space of a week.

The Libyan Foreign Bank has challenged the Burkinabe government's decision to nationalise its stake in commercial bank BCB.