Complex Arbitrations: Multi-party, Multi-contract and Multi-issue: A Comparative Study 2nd ed

Complex Arbitrations: Multi-party, Multi-contract and Multi-issue is a fully updated and renewed second edition of the far-sighted 2006 guide that was extensively used and much appreciated worldwide. Arbitrations which involve two or more parties and complex multi-party issues are becoming very common and frequent year by year. This one-stop guide provides a comprehensive and unique in-depth analysis of the multiplicity of issues arising from multi-party and multi-contract arbitration. It includes the decisions of several hundreds of courts from all major arbitral jurisdictions in the world and ad hoc and institutional awards – published and unpublished – rendered in all parts of the world under the auspices of all leading institutions.

The book covers the theories based on which an arbitration clause may be “extended” to non-signatories, issues arising from groups of contracts, joinder of parties and consolidation of arbitration proceedings, enforcement of such awards and their res judicata effects are analysed in this book. The analysis highlights the following factors and issues:

• theories based on which various courts and tribunals determine who are parties to the arbitration clause and whether a non-signatory may be part of the proceedings;
• to what extent one can bring to a single arbitration proceeding the various parties who have participated in an economic transaction through several contracts;
• reasoning to follow when it comes to deciding whether another company of the same group can be joined to the arbitration;
• whether a party to a complex contractual structure can intervene voluntarily in the proceedings;
• under what conditions arbitrations may be consolidated;
• to what extent res judicata applies when a second arbitration is initiated between the same parties on different legal grounds;
• how and to what extent one can overcome the inconveniences arising from having several parallel proceedings; and
• enforcement of multi-party and multi-contract awards.

The book also contains appendices specifying multi-party and multi-contract arbitration clauses, provisions of international conventions and relevant national legislative and institutional rules.