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    John Liebeskind assisted a Middle-Eastern pharmaceutical group in an arbitration resulting from the revocation of its contract for the research and development (R&D) of a new drug with a foreign developer. Although the arbitration tribunal ruled that the principal had been at fault, it reduced the multi-million quantum by 80% on the basis of John’s …
  • CASE: arbitration ; automotive industry
    John Liebeskind assisted Global Law Office advising and representing a major Chinese automobile manufacturer against a foreign yet Chinese-controlled joint-venture (JV) partner in an arbitration filed by the latter for breach of the JV contract which was governed by Swiss law. The dispute involved several issues of Swiss contract law diverging from Chinese legal concepts …
  • Letters of Intent in the M&A Context
    With the increasing number of mergers and acquisitions during the last two decades, the letter of intent, which precedes most forms of acquisitions of businesses, has become a widespread tool and, indeed, is often considered as a sine qua non condition of any merger or acquisition (M&A). Nevertheless, this institution still enjoys — or suffers …
  • CASE: arbitration ; deception
    John Liebeskind advised Chinese State-owned aeronautical conglomerate about the revocation, by the Chinese party, of a sale contract with a foreign supplier following the discovery that the latter had deceived the former by dissimulating its incapacity to perform, and assisted his client in the ensuing arbitration.