SCC: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?   Last week, the SCC Arbitration Institute co...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?   Last week, the SCC Arbitration Institute co-hosted a breakfast seminar in Kraków alongside Motieka & Audzevičius, Queritius, and the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA), in connection with the Ciarb European Branch Conference. The event was fully booked, a clear signal of the genuine appetite for substantive dialogue in the region.   The panel explored whether parties are becoming more deliberate when negotiating their seat of arbitration, and what the SCC's own data actually shows. The findings challenge some widely held assumptions: we are not seeing an increase in CEE-seated SCC cases. What we are seeing is a growing trend of Stockholm being chosen as a neutral seat in SCC arbitrations with no Swedish or Stockholm connection whatsoever, beyond the choice of the SCC itself.   The discussion then turned to the factors behind Stockholm's long-standing success as an arbitral hub, and whether those…