China Railway No 10 Engineering Group Co Ltd v Triorient LLC - United States District Court Southern District of New York Case No 21 CV 5941 RMB - Decision and Order - 14 January 2022
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2022
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Decision and Order
Based on the record herein, including without limitation (i) Respondent Triorient, LLC's failure to appear and/or participate in these confirmation proceedings even though it spent nearly 14 months in arbitration with Petitioner China Railway No. 10 Engineering Group Co. Ltd. See Docket; (ii) the arbitration award issued on December 11, 2020 by arbitrator Franco Ferrari, a professor at New York University School of Law, who determined that Respondent was obligated to pay Petitioner $778,265.00 under the parties' contract dated September 4, 2017, plus $74,300.00 in "arbitration costs" and $93,247.80 in "legal fees and expenses incurred during the arbitration proceedings." [1] See Pet. Ex. B (Arb. Award) ¶ 160; and (iii) the (unopposed) Petition to Confirm the Arbitration Award, dated July 15, 2021, seeking an order confirming the arbitrator's Award plus an award of Petitioner's "reasonable attorneys' fees incurred in bringing this proceeding" and such other relief "that this Court, in the interests of justice, deems necessary and proper." [2] See Pet. at p. 12, the Court hereby grants the Petition to Confirm the Arbitration Award, as follows:
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