The International Arbitration Conference Will Reveal the Benefits of Arbitration for African Businesses
In its Centenary year, the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration has set servicing African commercial disputes as one of its top strategic priorities. Speaking as the 7th ICC Africa Conference on International Arbitration prepares to kick off in Lagos at the end of this month, (31 May to 2 June), ICC Court President Claudia Salomon said “Our aim is for the African business community to see the ICC Court as their go-to partner for dispute prevention and resolution. And as we invest in, develop and deliver this strategy we are determined to include local voices, rather than impose our own ideas as a foreign institution. This conference will be hugely significant in placing arbitration, and our particular brand of it, centre-stage for the handling of African commercial disputes”.
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