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2.11.26
Wilson Sonsini Secures HKIAC Arbitration Victory for Clients
On February 6, 2026, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) issued a partial award (the Partial Award) in a dispute between Leed Education Holding Limited, National Education Holding Limited, and Hyde Education Holding Limited (collectively, the Claimants) and Minsheng Vocational Education Company Limited (the Respondent), a subsidiary of Minsheng Education Group Company Limited (Minsheng Education). Wilson Sonsini represents the Claimants in the arbitration.
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9.19.25
SEC Issues Policy Statement Clarifying View on Mandatory Arbitration Provisions
On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) approved a Policy Statement clarifying the SEC’s position on accelerating the effective date of registration statements for the offer and sale of securities under the Securities Act filed by companies that have mandatory arbitration provisions in their governing documents. The Policy Statement represents a significant development in the SEC’s approach to filings by companies with mandatory arbitration provisions applicable to claims under the federal securities laws—and potentially other governance claims as well. The Policy Statement also comes at a time of growing debate over the proper role of stockholder litigation as a policy matter and the optimal approach to such matters under state corporate law.
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9.27.24
Wilson Sonsini Defeats $341 Million Arbitration Claim Against Aadi Bioscience
On September 26, 2024, an international arbitration tribunal delivered a unanimous award in favor of Wilson Sonsini’s client, Aadi Bioscience, Inc., and decisively rejected the claimant’s multimillion-dollar demand for damages.
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4.03.24
Cayman Court of Appeal Dismisses Appeal Against Interim Quia Timet Injunction Granted Pursuant to Section 54 of Arbitration Act
The Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Reaffirms Ruling of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and Provides Further Guidance on the Interpretation of Section 54 of the Arbitration Act
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2.23.24
Seventh Circuit Hears Oral Argument About Mass Arbitration and Class Action Waivers
In the latest development regarding so-called mass arbitrations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently heard argument in a case that any company with consumer-facing terms should be following. In Wallrich v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., No. 23-2842 (7th Cir. Nov. 8, 2023), Samsung was the target of a mass-arbitration campaign, i.e., a coordinated effort where plaintiffs lawyers line up thousands of individual claimants and file identical arbitration demands for them in order to force the company (here, Samsung) to pay millions of dollars in arbitration filing fees having nothing to do with the merits of the claims.
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5.22.18
U.S. Supreme Court Permits Employer Use of Class Action Waivers in Employee Arbitration Agreements
In one of its most important employment law decisions in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an employer's use of a class or collective action waiver (class waiver) in a mandatory employment arbitration agreement must be enforced as written and its inclusion in the agreement does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).1While tens of millions of employees in the U.S. are already subject to arbitration agreements, many employers do not include class waivers in their agreements or use arbitration agreements at all. Because Epic Systems gives most employers the green light to include class waivers in their employment arbitration agreements, the decision is certain to result in the growing use of both arbitration agreements and class waivers, and therefore will have significant ramifications for employment litigation, including fewer employee class actions.
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7.14.17
Recent $455 Million Payment Reaffirms Certainty of International Arbitral Awards
One of the most often overlooked features of arbitration in the context of international commercial disputes is the certainty provided by a final award. Recently, Dow Agrosciences paid Bayer Cropscience more than $455 million to satisfy an arbitral award rendered by an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal. On July 6, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released the supersedeas bond securing that payment.1