After discovering that glassmaker OIEG concealed the fact that it sold the right to enforce a US$500 million award to an unnamed Irish investment fund, GST LLP attorneys are quoted as saying that the company is essentially foisting “…a flawed award on this court that takes advantage of an arbitrator’s misconduct, continues to exploit a weakness of the investment arbitration system and conceals the owner of the award and true party in interest.” Quinn Smith noted the “significant doubts” arising and further suggested that it wasn’t even clear whether the sale of the award actually took place. Law360 notes the “stiff opposition” mounted by GST LLP which asserted that federal law prohibits arbitral awards being granted in the proceedings in NY and that OIEG had also brought a parallel complaint in DC.