Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty, Multicontract, Multi-Issue and Class Actions

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This thorough and up-to-date guide to this area of practice--the first and only such guide available--provides a comprehensive analysis of all the issues arising from multiparty-multicontract arbitrations, including those involving States and groups of companies. The numerous factors and problems analysed in depth include the following: - theories on the basis of which courts and arbitral tribunals determine who are panics to the arbitration clause, - whether an arbitration clause may be extended to non-signatories, - to what extent one can bring to a single arbitration proceeding the various parties who have participated in a single economic transaction through several contracts, - whether a respondent can join other defendants to the arbitration, be they privy to the arbitration agreement or third parties, - whether a party to a complex contractual structure can intervene voluntarily in the proceedings, - under what conditions separate arbitration proceedings may be consolidated, - how and to what extent one can overcome the inconveniences that arise from having several parallel proceedings, - appointment of arbitrators when the various parties to the dispute have divergent interests, - res judicata, and in particular whether an arbitral tribunal should take into consideration an arbitral award rendered in a connected arbitration arising from the same project, and- enforcement of multiparty-multicontract awards.