Yasmine Lahlou to Speak on Arbitration and Anti-Suit Injunctions at IBA Milan 2025

October 2025 — Chaffetz Lindsey’s Yasmine Lahlou will serve as a panelist at the 5th IBA Litigation Committee Conference on Private International Law, to be held October 2–3, 2025 in Milan.

Her session, “Arbitration and Anti-Suit Injunctions After UniCredit — A New Frontier?”, will explore the evolving landscape of anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions in arbitration following UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC. The panel will take a comparative approach across jurisdictions, including:

• Developments in England, notably changes under the Arbitration Act 2025
• Responses in the EU, such as “anti-anti-suit injunctions” and their operation under the Brussels Ia Regulation
• Case law from Asia and the U.S., including nuances involving third-party affiliates and enforcement protections

Panel Details

• Session Chair: Johanna Christine Wirth (Hengeler Mueller, Berlin), Scholarship Officer, IBA Litigation Committee
• Speakers:
  Swee Yen Koh SC (WongPartnership, Singapore)
  • Yasmine Lahlou (Chaffetz Lindsey, New York)
  • Paul Lowenstein KC (Twenty Essex, London)
  • Prof. Chiara Enrica Tuo (Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa)

This panel will help illuminate how courts and tribunals are navigating jurisdictional tension, procedural tools, and enforcement strategy in a shifting international arbitration environment.

More details on the IBA Conference can be found on the IBA event page.