Corporations
do regularly use arbitration to solve disputes they have with their partners.
But arbitration may also be useful for disputes arising within the company.
They concern the validity of decisions of the general assembly of shareholders,
of the board of directors, the liability of directors or the dissolution of the
company, to name a few. This paper shows, first, that this kind of disputes is
now largely considered arbitrable under French and Belgian laws, whereas other countries
develop a less open approach. Beyond the question of their arbitrability,
corporate internal disputes raise the question of the impact of their
multiparty character on the procedure. Therefore, the present article, in its
second part, deals with the scope and effect of an arbitration clause included
in the corporate by-laws and examine the incidence of multiple parties on the
setting up of arbitral tribunals.