Hurricane Harvey tore up large areas of the Texas Gulf Coast with gale-force winds and storm surge, and then inundated vast areas, including Houston, with unprecedented amounts of rain. Many businesses in those areas are still shut down and operations are only slowly being restored. Moreover, refineries have been shut down which means that companies […]
Dear Fellow IR Global Members, We are pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with law firm Langlois lawyers to unify our respective practices. Effective September 1, 2017 we will continue our practice under the name Langlois lawyers, llp. This unification considerably increases the firms’ service offering to clients and potential clients, as […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Philip Van Huizen Jr. of Van Huizen Law. Flip has joined IR as our exclusive Insurance Law Member in Netherlands. Van Huizen Law is a young and dynamic lawfirm in Rotterdam with much expertise. Van Huizen Law is specialised in the areas of International […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Philip Van Huizen of Van Huizen Law. Philip has joined IR as our exclusive Insurance Law Member in Netherlands. Van Huizen Law is a young and dynamic lawfirm in Rotterdam with much expertise. Van Huizen Law is specialised in the areas of International Trade […]
Contracts form a critical part of any commercial operation, allowing businesses to enter into agreements with the suppliers, customers and distributors that drive their operation. Commercial contracts can be complex […]
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Insurance policies are complex contracts, often riddled with pitfalls for the policyholder. The pursuit of a claim in the wake of a loss is equally fraught. Yet all too many companies entrust their assets and their very survival to insurance policies that are vetted by neither in-house counsel nor a broker with the mandate or […]
The finality of arbitration, and lack of judicial review or appeal, is often held up as an important reason for the use arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism. Finality refers to the absence in most jurisdictions of extensive appellate review of arbitral awards. As a general rule, the decisions of arbitrators are final and binding. […]
Many companies from in the US and around the world have one very odd thing in common: they have insurance policies that are governed by New York law. This is not a coincidence. Many insurance companies have decided that risks with little or no connection with New York should be decided under its law. International […]
Insurance brokers are among the most important suppliers that any company deals with. Yet, often the arrangement between brokers and their clients consists of nothing more than a broker of record letter, or even a verbal authorization to present insurance proposals. As a general rule, a written agreement that addresses the scope of services provided […]
Weather experts reported recently that fewer hurricanes are likely to develop this season. But as most meteorologists will also tell you, it only takes one hurricane to make the season a catastrophe. Storms have increased in intensity in recent years, and most climate scientists believe that global warming will cause increasingly severe disruptions. Whether striking […]
Over the last several years, the world’s leading arbitral institutions have adopted new rules, recognizing that the growth in international arbitration has been accompanied by the increasing complexity and sophistication of disputes. Institutional statistics reveal increases in disputes involving multiple parties, multiple contracts and multiple arbitration agreements. Parties to a dispute subject to arbitration are […]
Lead poisoning in drinking water has been a problem since ancient Rome, and it simply won’t go away. As the recent history of Flint, Michigan demonstrates, lead in drinking water can result in multiple serious, and extraordinarily expensive, challenges for municipalities. Since the problem in Flint was discovered in 2014, unsafe levels of lead have […]
