A suit by a Guinea-based mining company against international financier George Soros was stayed Wednesday by a Manhattan federal judge pending arbitration between the company and the Guinean government that Soros allegedly convinced to undermine a pre-existing contract settled with the country’s prior presidential administration.

U.S. District Judge John Keenan for the Southern District of New York ordered the stay in lieu of a dismissal motion sought by the defendants, Soros and a number of his affiliated nonprofits, including the Open Society Foundations.