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3 Choice of the seat of arbitration contd.

Which seats do corporations
prefer?

In the 2006 School of International Abitration/
PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, we also
asked respondents about their preferred
arbitration venues. In that survey, respondents
were asked to rank their top three preferred
venues. Of the first choices (using the terms
adopted in that report), 38% preferred
England, 12% each preferred Switzerland and
United States, 10% preferred France, 5%
preferred Japan and 3% preferred Sweden. A
further 21% of respondents chose other seats
as their first choice. Taking into account the
differences of the current respondent sample,
it appears that the general pattern of
preferences has remained similar over the past
four years, with corporations displaying a
strong preference for London. In the 2010
results, it appears that the wider sample has


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