https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781961 A foreign-seated international commercial arbitration governed by Benin law excludes Part I of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, so Section 11 cannot be used to appoint an arbitrator in India for the BSA dispute. Later Sales Contracts and HSSAs did not novate or supersede the BSA and its Addendum, as they were separate transaction-specific arrangements and did not show a clear intention to replace the earlier dispute resolution clause. Prior findings in the anti-arbitration injunction suit operated as issue estoppel on the contractual matrix and the primacy of the BSA. The group of companies doctrine also did not justify a composite reference because common affiliation alone does not bind non-signatories without clear mutual intention. en-us Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:57:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781961 A foreign-seated international commercial arbitration governed by Benin law excludes Part I of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, so Section 11 cannot be used to appoint an arbitrator in India for the BSA dispute. Later Sales Contracts and HSSAs did not novate or supersede the BSA and its Addendum, as they were separate transaction-specific arrangements and did not show a clear intention to replace the earlier dispute resolution clause. Prior findings in the anti-arbitration injunction suit operated as issue estoppel on the contractual matrix and the primacy of the BSA. The group of companies doctrine also did not justify a composite reference because common affiliation alone does not bind non-signatories without clear mutual intention. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=781961