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Colombia is held liable for treaty breach in second arbitration dispute with Glencore, but damages awarded are lower than claimed
Apr 23, 2024 -
Looking Back: ATA v. Jordan tribunal found that “retroactive application” of Jordanian arbitration law violated investment treaty and reinstated contractual arbitration clause annulled by Jordanian courts
Apr 22, 2024 -
Politically-charged arbitration against Georgia concludes with Award
Apr 19, 2024 -
El Salvador challenges entire ICSID tribunal in banking dispute, shortly after Rule 41(5) decision was issued
Apr 18, 2024 -
Singapore court enforces costs award in favour of Laos
Apr 18, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear third ICSID arbitration between gold/diamond miner and Venezuela
Apr 18, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal rejects bifurcation request, applying three-fold test codified in 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules
Apr 17, 2024 -
Telecoms case against Papua New Guinea is discontinued following settlement
Apr 17, 2024 -
Revealed: ICSID tribunal in MetLife v. Argentina sees no customary international law limitation period and finds that state expropriated pension fund’s assets, but quantum is reduced to fraction of damages claimed
Apr 17, 2024 -
Analysis: Annulment committee in RWE v. Spain sees no manifest excess of powers or failure to state reasons in ECT award that upheld jurisdiction over intra-EU dispute and declined to apply EU law on the merits
Apr 16, 2024 -
Delaware court hearing defamation claim concerning 2020 US presidential election orders production of documents from parallel ICSID arbitration against Venezuela
Apr 12, 2024 -
Banking investor challenges Ukraine’s appointee in ICSID dispute
Apr 11, 2024 -
Uranium miner to lodge ECT claim against Spain
Apr 10, 2024 -
Bernard Hanotiau is tapped to chair billion-dollar banking claim against Ukraine, while EU court rules on sanctions imposed on claimant’s minority shareholders
Apr 10, 2024 -
Colombia appoints eight women to ICSID’s Panels, following public call for applicants
Apr 09, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear investor’s bid to annul award that declined jurisdiction over snow crab claim against Norway
Apr 09, 2024 -
ICSID arbitration stemming from pensions dispute with Argentina concludes with Award
Apr 08, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal rejects Honduras’ argument that claims manifestly lack legal merit due to investor’s failure to exhaust local remedies
Apr 05, 2024 -
Investor in public transportation sector makes good on earlier threat to bring treaty claim against Serbia
Apr 05, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal hearing banking dispute with Portugal decides to hear state’s preliminary objections in bifurcated proceedings
Apr 04, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID tribunal found that Tanzania breached its investment treaty with Sweden when the state expropriated agricultural venture
Apr 04, 2024 -
[Updated] Gas distribution company lodges ICSID claim against Peru
Apr 02, 2024 -
Belgium rejects request for disclosure of DP World award
Apr 02, 2024 -
[Updated with RfA] Portuguese individual lodges BIT arbitration against Angola
Apr 01, 2024 -
Cavinder Bull is tapped to chair trio of ECT arbitrations against Denmark, Germany, and the European Union
Mar 30, 2024 -
Parties report failure of court-ordered mediation in US set-aside proceedings regarding NAFTA award that held Mexico liable for denial of justice
Mar 29, 2024 -
Croatian energy company puts Bosnia and Herzegovina on notice of treaty dispute over termination of wind park concession
Mar 28, 2024 -
In Riverside Coffee v. Nicaragua, tribunal rules on format of hearing, while USA provides views on interpretation of CAFTA
Mar 28, 2024 -
Investigation: As voting process is ongoing, ICSID informs its member states how it intends to address potential conflicts of interest of proposed new Secretary-General
Mar 27, 2024 -
[Updated] Tribunal majority rules that The Gambia breached its investment law by expropriating aquaculture business
Mar 27, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal rules on damages in Lima subway construction dispute
Mar 22, 2024 -
Three are named to hear ICSID claim against South Sudan – shortly before the case is suspended
Mar 22, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID tribunal orders Qatar to submit undertakings aimed at safeguarding claimant from criminal proceedings, while declining to adopt further provisional measures; arbitrators partially grant request for disclosure of third-party funding information under 2022 ICSID Rules
Mar 21, 2024 -
[Updated with Decision] ICSID ad hoc committee upholds RWE v. Spain award
Mar 21, 2024 -
Romania reportedly ordered to pay 42.2 million EUR to renewable energy investor under ECT
Mar 21, 2024 -
Renewable energy investor makes good on earlier threat to lodge ICSID claim against Belarus
Mar 20, 2024 -
Tanzanian court enforces ICSID discontinuance order that granted costs to the state
Mar 19, 2024 -
Analysis: Investors’ claims in Encavis v. Italy fail on the merits, as tribunal finds that amendments to Italian renewable energy incentives scheme served legitimate public purpose and fulfilled proportionality requirement
Mar 19, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID tribunal in Encavis v. Italy upholds jurisdiction, dismissing intra-EU and forum selection clause objections in ECT dispute
Mar 19, 2024 -
Analysis: CJEU finds that UK Supreme Court’s enforcement of ICSID award infringed Article 351(1) TFEU, duty of sincere cooperation, preliminary reference mechanism, and EU state aid rules
Mar 15, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID tribunal finds that Uruguay breached BIT by exacerbating financial difficulties of local airline through inconsistent, imprudent, and irrational conduct
Mar 15, 2024 -
[Updated with Award] ICSID tribunal dismisses emissions trading claim against Canada
Mar 14, 2024 -
CJEU finds that UK infringed EU law by enforcing Micula v. Romania (1) ICSID award
Mar 14, 2024 -
Mexico is hit with treaty-based renewable energy claim
Mar 14, 2024 -
Cypriot company lodges ICSID case against Hungary under Energy Charter Treaty
Mar 14, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear coal phase-out dispute with Germany under Energy Charter Treaty
Mar 14, 2024 -
ICSID updates its background paper on annulment, highlighting latest trends in annulment proceeding and key principles derived from recent case law
Mar 13, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal is constituted to hear waste management dispute with Morocco
Mar 13, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal in Encavis et al. v. Italy dismisses all claims on the merits
Mar 12, 2024 -
Analysis: Tribunal in Red Eagle v. Colombia splits on whether minimum standard of treaty protects legitimate expectations; majority rules that Colombia did not breach FTA when banning high-altitude mining
Mar 12, 2024 -
Bulgaria seeks counsel for ICSID arbitration brought by crypto company; deadline is in ten days
Mar 11, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal is constituted to hear claims under Georgia-USA BIT
Mar 11, 2024 -
Eduardo Zuleta is tapped to chair arbitration between Libyan Investment Authority and Belgium
Mar 08, 2024 -
[Updated] Tribunal majority dismisses billion-dollar claim against Romania in controversial gold mining dispute
Mar 08, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear insurance dispute with Panama
Mar 08, 2024 -
ICSID chair dismisses challenge to all three committee members in dispute with Oman
Mar 07, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID tribunal sees insufficient evidence of control by Italian nationals over Panamanian claimant, dismissing BIT claim against Panama
Mar 06, 2024 -
Analysis: In Omega v. Panama, ICSID tribunal found insufficient evidence of corruption pursuant to host state law to preclude jurisdiction and admissibility; investors’ claims were ultimately dismissed on the merits
Mar 06, 2024 -
Pleadings in Slovakian oil and gas dispute detail parties’ disagreements on “social license to operate”, use of DCF valuation without investment track record, and need for active investment
Mar 05, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal dismisses claim by bioethanol company against Panama, finding insufficient evidence of foreign control
Mar 04, 2024 -
Investors in Serbian agriculture venture file for partial annulment of award that only upheld jurisdiction over (and granted damages to) the investment’s ultimate beneficial owner
Mar 04, 2024 -
[Updated with Award] Tribunal majority rejects claims on the merits in mining dispute with Colombia over environmental measures
Feb 29, 2024 -
ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear Spain’s bid to annul 25 million EUR award
Feb 29, 2024 -
Honduras challenges claimants’ appointee in multi-billion-dollar ICSID arbitration
Feb 28, 2024 -
NAFTA tribunal grants request by local indigenous representative to make amicus submission, but declines to repeat non-aggravation order in light of recent conduct by Mexico
Feb 28, 2024 -
Snow crab investors file for annulment of award in first known treaty case against Norway
Feb 28, 2024 -
ICSID tribunal dismisses security for costs request in fracking dispute with Slovenia
Feb 23, 2024 -
Renewable energy arbitration against Sri Lanka concludes with award
Feb 23, 2024 -
Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee in Magyar v. Hungary upheld 7 million EUR award, seeing no ground to annul tribunal’s dismissal of intra-EU objection and valuation of claimants’ losses
Feb 22, 2024 -
Analysis: In its first decision on enforcement of an ICSID award, Malaysia’s High Court finds that sovereign immunity has no relevance at award recognition stage
Feb 21, 2024 -
[Updated with Award] Analysis: Tribunal majority in EBL v. Spain finds discrete ECT violation on the merits, but declines to award damages and orders claimants to pay costs
Feb 20, 2024 -
Belgium is ordered to pay 41 million EUR for expropriation of port investment
Feb 19, 2024 -
In recently-released discontinuance order, RWE v. Netherlands tribunal finds respondent’s request for costs “inherently contradictory” with decision to seek German anti-arbitration injunction
Feb 19, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear contract-based airport dispute with Honduras
Feb 19, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear waste management claim against Macedonia
Feb 15, 2024 -
Uncovered: Tribunal in Grand Express v. Belarus declares claims inadmissible after finding that claimant defrauded its Belarusian partner and sent falsified documents to Eurasian Development Bank
Feb 15, 2024 -
Spain files for annulment of award that saw tribunal split on legitimate expectations analysis
Feb 15, 2024 -
Revealed: Majority of ad hoc committee sees manifest failure to exercise jurisdiction and contradictory reasons in tribunal’s approach to claim on the merits
Feb 14, 2024 -
[Updated with Award] ICSID tribunal orders Uruguay to pay damages in airline dispute
Feb 14, 2024 -
Analysis: Jurisdictional decision in Cambodia Power v. KOC confirmed consolidation of claims stemming from multiple contracts, and declined jurisdiction over state-owned company for lack of designation under Article 25(1) ICSID Convention
Feb 13, 2024 -
Analysis: In recently surfaced Cambodia Power v. Cambodia award, ICSID tribunal dismissed all claims in contract-based arbitration over energy project
Feb 13, 2024 -
ICSID ad hoc committee majority partially annuls Agility v. Iraq award, finding that tribunal failed to exercise jurisdiction and state reasons in dismissing claim on the merits
Feb 12, 2024 -
ICSID annulment committee upholds ECT award in dispute between Spain and Japanese investors
Feb 09, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear NAFTA legacy dispute between creditors of TV Azteca and Mexico
Feb 08, 2024 -
Analysis: In now-public decision, ICSID ad hoc committee rejected bid to annul award that dismissed first Highbury v. Venezuela arbitration for lack of proof of ownership over investment
Feb 08, 2024 -
Analysis: In first Highbury v. Venezuela award, ICSID tribunal declined jurisdiction over multi-million-dollar mining claim, as claimants failed to demonstrate ownership over disputed concessions
Feb 08, 2024 -
In unprecedented ruling, ICSID ad hoc committee hearing mining dispute with Tanzania dismisses most grounds for annulment for being manifestly without legal merit
Feb 06, 2024 -
USA files amicus curiae submission before US appeals court, supporting Spain’s attempts to reverse anti-anti-enforcement injunction and review intra-EU argument at enforcement stage
Feb 06, 2024 -
Arbitrations against Belize, Papua New Guinea, and Slovenia are discontinued
Feb 06, 2024 -
Jamaica may face its first ICSID claim in decades, as music copyright holding company threatens arbitration over corruption allegations
Feb 05, 2024 -
Industrial catering company reportedly makes good on earlier threat to lodge ICSID case against Chile
Feb 05, 2024 -
ICSID releases caseload statistics for 2023: Number of new cases is up, first ICSID case against REIO is lodged, Americas amount for majority of new claims, and gender diversity sees some progress
Feb 05, 2024 -
Resubmission tribunal is in place to hear gold mining dispute with Kazakhstan
Feb 05, 2024 -
Tribunal dismisses treaty claims against Belarus, finding that Russian claimant engaged in fraudulent conduct
Feb 02, 2024 -
Spain Round-Up: New awards and decisions, enforcement-related developments, and updates on pending arbitrations
Feb 02, 2024 -
Poland is hit with ECT claim over renewable energy venture
Jan 31, 2024 -
Three are in place to hear financial services dispute with Bahrain
Jan 31, 2024 -
BIT tribunal dismisses Republic of Congo’s counterclaims, on jurisdictional grounds
Jan 30, 2024 -
ICSID Secretary-General steps in to appoint arbitrators in multi-billion-dollar dispute with Honduras
Jan 30, 2024 -
[Updated] Mozambique sees new treaty claim after investor sells BIT rights to asset recovery firm
Jan 30, 2024