On January 10, 2014, Judge Kathleen Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the federal court based in Miami, issued an opinion which further solidifies the role of role of arbitration in international disputes, even when parallel litigation is pending in other jurisdictions.
In December 2010, several entities affiliated with JSC Acron, a Moscow-based agrichemicals company, filed suit in Saskatchewan, Canada, to recover for certain breaches of fiduciary duty relating...