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International Business Corporation (IBC) v National Hydrocarbons Company (SNH) (Paris Court of Appeal RG 16/22740)

French proceedings concerning an application to set aside a CCJA award arising from IBC’s shareholder agreement and its dispute with Cameroon’s national hydrocarbons company.

  • Setting aside arbitral awards
  • International commercial arbitration
Seat
France
Applicable rules
CCJA Arbitration Rules · CCJA Internal Arbitration Rules

Procedural record

  1. 15 January 2014France

    15 January 2014France

    CCJA arbitral award dated 15 January 2014

    Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA (CCJA)

    Decision summary
    The tribunal rejected the claimants' claims and ordered them jointly and severally to pay 1,912,877,218 CFA francs to the Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) and 283,897,414 CFA francs to SNH personnel.

    Participants

    International Business Corporation (IBC)
    LEN HOLDING SA
    [EY] [HX] [KX]
    [MC] [RG] [KX]
    EPIC Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH)
    Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA (CCJA)
    Arbitrator
    [NF]
    Arbitrator
    [BE] [NO]
    Arbitrator
    Chifflot Bourgeois

    6 years, 1 month and 10 days later · 2232 days

  2. 25 February 2020France

    25 February 2020France

    Decision of the Paris Court of Appeal, Division 1, Chamber 1 in the case RG 16/22740 dated 25 February 2020

    Paris Court of Appeal, Division 1, Chamber 1

    Case no.
    RG 16/22740
    Citation
    Paris Court of Appeal, 25 February 2020, RG 16/22740
    Decision summary
    The court rejected the procedural objections and the appeal seeking annulment of the 15 January 2014 CCJA arbitral award. It held that the challenge to the arbitrator's independence was inadmissible because no timely CCJA recusal request had been made, that the award was rendered within the authorized time limit, and that the adversarial principle had been respected; it also ordered the claimants to pay EUR 100,000 and costs.

    Participants

    International Business Corporation (IBC)
    Representative
    Emmanuel JARRY (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    Representative
    Romain DUPEYRE (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    LEN HOLDING SA
    Representative
    Emmanuel JARRY (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    Representative
    Romain DUPEYRE (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    [EY] [HX] [KX]
    Representative
    Emmanuel JARRY (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    Representative
    Romain DUPEYRE (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    [MC] [RG] [KX]
    Representative
    Emmanuel JARRY (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    Representative
    Romain DUPEYRE (For: International Business Corporation (IBC) · LEN HOLDING SA · [EY] [HX] [KX] · [MC] [RG] [KX])
    EPIC Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH)
    Representative
    Frédérique ETEVENARD (For: EPIC Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH))
    Representative
    Gill DINGOME (For: EPIC Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH))
    Paris Court of Appeal, Division 1, Chamber 1
    Judge
    Anne BEAUVOIS
    Judge
    Jean LECAROZ
    Judge
    Marie-Catherine GAFFINEL
    Other
    Institutional administrator
    Mélanie PATE
    Witness
    [YN]

    Authorities cited

    3
    • French Code of Civil Procedure
      statute
    • French Civil Code
      statute
    • CCJA, Plenary Assembly, 15 October 2015
      case-law

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