{"id":1175,"date":"2022-01-17T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:10:30","slug":"texas-us-district-court-compels-signatory-to-an-arbitration-agreement-to-arbitrate-with-non-signatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/texas-us-district-court-compels-signatory-to-an-arbitration-agreement-to-arbitrate-with-non-signatory\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS US DISTRICT COURT COMPELS SIGNATORY TO AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE WITH NON-SIGNATORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>SOURCE:<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>PRACTICAL LAW ARBITRATION<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Binh v. King & Spalding LLP<\/em>, 2022 WL 130879 (S.D. Tex. Jan 10, 2022), the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas compelled arbitration of a client\u2019s claim against his lawyers under an arbitration agreement signed by the client and a third-party funder but not signed by the lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dutch client, Trinh Vinh Binh (Binh), sued his law firm King & Spalding (K&S) for allegedly mishandling the distribution of proceeds resulting from a PCA administered UNCITRAL arbitration under the Netherlands-Vietnam bilateral investment treaty (1994). In the UNCITRAL arbitration, K&S won an award of over USD45 million on Binh\u2019s behalf. K&S moved to dismiss the case and compel arbitration under an arbitration clause contained in Binh\u2019s financing agreement with Burford Capital. Binh opposed the motion on the ground that K&S was a non-signatory to the financing agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The District Court disagreed with Binh and compelled arbitration. The court found that the arbitration agreement covered claims under all \u201cTransaction Documents\u201d, which were defined in the financing agreement to include a letter agreement between Binh and K&S concerning distribution of funds recovered in the UNCITRAL arbitration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the Court found that the agreement containing the arbitration clause tasked K&S \u201cwith performing certain duties\u201d and that the issues K&S seeks to arbitrate are \u201cintertwined\u201d with the financing agreement. The Court dismissed Binh\u2019s lawsuit rather than stay it under section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act, allowing Binh to take an appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: PRACTICAL LAW ARBITRATION In\u00a0Binh v. King &#038; Spalding LLP, 2022 WL 130879 (S.D. Tex. Jan 10, 2022), the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas compelled arbitration of a client\u2019s claim against his lawyers under an arbitration agreement signed by the client and a third-party funder but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84],"tags":[195,196,428,187,429],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nicarb-adr-developments","tag-adr-2","tag-arbitration-2","tag-arbitration-agreement","tag-nicarb-2","tag-non-signatory","col-lg-4 col-md-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.nicarb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/week-2.1.jpeg?fit=340%2C148&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcb80P-iX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nicarb.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}