Hold On To Your Seat! São Paulo Court of Appeals Declines to Adjudicate Annulment of NY-Seated Award
May parties contractually dissociate the forum competent to adjudicate annulment proceedings from the seat of the arbitration? In other words, may they choose one city as the arbitral seat while designating the courts of another to entertain proceedings to set aside the arbitral award? This question has been rarely tested in the Brazilian scene, but…