As any student (or former student) of chemistry will know, palladium forms one of the platinum group elements in the Periodic Table. And so the Commercial Court recently ruled upon a platinum-coated mess arising from an arbitration and settlement negotiations in a dispute concerning the paint system applied to the new-build superyacht, m/y “PALLADIUM”. The case of Goodwood Investments Holdings Inc. v Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, heard in May 2018, arose from an app