���� The chair of the Arab Association for International Arbitration, Abdel Hamid El-Ahdab, has been appointed as Lebanon's second appointee to the ICSID panel of arbitrators.
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���� Chaired by Nikolai Dubik, Member of the Gazprom Management Committee assembled today for an annual meeting at the Company��s Headquarters. Taking part in the meeting were representatives of the Gazprom Legal Department.

���� The meeting noted that the work done over the previous years with regard to improving the Rules of the Arbitration Court had ensured a 15 per cent cost reduction in arbitration proceedings in 2008.
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���� ZURICH: Swiss cement maker Holcim Ltd. said Monday it is seeking help from an international arbitration panel in a dispute with the government of Venezuela over the nationalization of its plants in the country.
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���� A pair of senior lawyers are to chair the Spanish Arbitration Club, replacing Jos�� Mar��a Alonso��Antonio Hierro and Jesus Remon.

���� Hierro, 50, and Rem��n, 49, hope to expand the club's membership in Latin America in particular. Today the club has over 350 members from more than 20 countries��
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���� Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Nigel Blackaby from the firm's Washington, DC, office as head of the firm's US international arbitration group.
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