Arbitration
In many cases, particularly in the international shipping and transportation sectors, arbitration can be a speedier and more cost-effective alternative to litigation as a means of settling disputes.
AKD has extensive experience of representing its clients at
arbitration tribunals, most notably in disputes involving the
international trade, carriage of good, chartering,
shipbuilding, offshore, yachting and aircraft manifacturing
sectors.
Quite apart from the potential advantages of lower costs and
shorter, more simplified proceedings, arbitration can also be an
attractive option because disputants can be certain that the
arbitrators appointed to hear their claim will be specialists in
their own particular field. Furthermore, parties to arbitration are
not exposed to the risk of surprising and singular decisions of the
sort sometimes handed down by courts in foreign jurisdictions. On
the basis of its expensive experience in this field, AKD is able to
advise its clients when arbitration is the most advantageous
option, and to act for them accordingly.
Contact: Vincent de Brauw