Dear friends, colleagues, and clients:
We are pleased to announce our success in the California Supreme Court. On April 2, 2020, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling regarding the right of parties to agree to waive the mandatory provisions for service of process abroad under the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (“Hague Service Convention”). We drafted one of the leading amicus curiae briefs that set forth a legal argument in support of the right of private parties to agree to waive the provisions of the Hague Service Convention in the context of proceedings to enforce an award resulting from an international commercial arbitration. The Court was convinced and ruled in favor of Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) to the tune of no less than half of a billion dollars. We drafted the amicus brief for the Pacific Rim Cultural Foundation, an affiliate of Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia).
We are extremely grateful to the California Supreme Court and all parties involved for setting the stage for this opinion and adding us to the annals of legal history on a correctly and succinctly decided case.
A link to the opinion is here:
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2020/s249923.html