Compania De Inversiones v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua
| Docket Number | 19-1151 |
| Decision Date | 17 August 2020 |
The parties to this appeal were a Bolivian company, Compania de Inversiones Mercantiles S.A. (“CIMSA”), and Mexican companies known as Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, S.A.B. de C.V. and GCC Latinoamerica, S.A. de C.V. (collectively “GCC”). Plaintiff-appellant CIMSA brought a district court action pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act to confirm a foreign arbitral award issued in Bolivia against Defendant-appellee GCC. The underlying dispute stemmed from an agreement under which CIMSA and GCC arranged to give each other a right of first refusal if either party decided to sell its shares in a Bolivian cement company known as Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento, S.A. (“SOBOCE”). GCC sold its SOBOCE shares to a third party after taking the position...
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Compañía De Inversiones Mercantiles S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V.
...companies, sought to acquire an interest in Bolivia's largest cement company, Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento, S.A. ("SOBOCE"). Compañía I , 970 F.3d at 1276-77. At that time, CIMSA, a Bolivian company, was SOBOCE's controlling shareholder. GCC offered CIMSA approximately $59 million to pur......
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Douglass v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
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Hetronic Int'l, Inc. v. Hetronic Germany GMBH
..."The plaintiff has the burden of proving that the court has jurisdiction." Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V. , 970 F.3d 1269, 1281 (10th Cir. 2020) (citation omitted), cert. denied , No. 20-1033, ––– U.S. ––––, ––– S.Ct. ––––, ––– L.Ed.2......
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...of the award bears the burden of furnishing proof of an enumerated defense. Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., 970 F.3d 1269, 1295–96 (10th Cir. 2020). DynaResources provides no authority to support its contention that Article 5(1)(e) of......
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Mastering Dispute Resolution Clauses: Three Drafting Tips To Improve Arbitral Award Enforcement
...Venezuela, 863 F.3d 96, 124-25 (2d Cir. 2017); Compania de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., 970 F.3d 1269, 1292 (10th Cir. 2020); Conti 11. Container Schiffarts-GMBH & Co. KG M.S., MSC Flaminia v. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. S.A., 91 F.4th 789,......
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...process demands something like a ‘proximate cause’ nexus”). [v] See, e.g., Compania de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., 970 F.3d 1269, 1285 (10th Cir. 2020) (“This court on several occasions has declined to choose between but-for and proximate cau......
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FORD'S UNDERLYING CONTROVERSY.
...approach to defining claim). (114.) See, e.g., Compania de Inversiones Mercantiles, S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua S.A.B. de C.V., 970 F.3d 1269, 1284-89 (10th Cir. 2020), cert, denied, 141 S. Ct. 2739 (2021); uBID, Inc. v. GoDaddy Grp., 623 F.3d 421, 430-31 (7th Cir. 2010); Novian &am......
