Enforcement planned from the start
The collection strategy is built before the award is in hand.
Recognition and enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards, including under the New York Convention of 1958.
Winning an arbitration is the first half. Turning the award into money - in the country where the losing party holds assets - is the half that decides whether the win was real. The firm treats enforcement as a strategy that should begin before the award is even issued, not as an afterthought once the other side refuses to pay.
The firm picks the enforcement forum by where the assets are, not by where the award was made, and it secures those assets early where there is a risk they will disappear. It anticipates the narrow grounds on which the debtor can resist - the convention's exceptions are limited and known - and closes them off in how the award and the record are presented. Enforcement is run as its own case, because that is what it is.
The collection strategy is built before the award is in hand.
Freezing relief where there is a real risk of dissipation.
The known grounds for refusing enforcement are closed off in advance.
A creditor holding a foreign arbitral award faces a debtor whose assets sit in a different jurisdiction and who declines to pay. The firm runs recognition under the New York Convention, moves to secure the assets against dissipation, and meets the debtor's set-aside attempt on the convention's limited grounds.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
Through recognition under the New York Convention framework, after which the award can be enforced like a judgment; the grounds to resist are limited, which is what makes a properly presented award enforceable.
Only the narrow, defined grounds in the convention, such as an invalid arbitration agreement, denial of a fair opportunity to be heard, or conflict with public policy; ordinary disagreement with the result is not one of them.
Often yes, where there is a real risk the assets will be moved or hidden, provisional relief can secure them while recognition proceeds.