David Persampieri advised on a Canadian arbitration dispute regarding the payment of royalties by the operator of a mine producing high-grade iron ore concentrate which is sold on the seaborne market. He submitted an opinion detailing the appropriate market-based price on which to base royalty obligations.
Calculating damages in IEEPA tariff refund litigation
But it did not resolve a harder question: Who bore their economic cost? That distinction is now driving two parallel waves of private litigation: commercial...