Stanimir Alexandrov - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Stanimir Alexandrov

• Analysis: In NAFTA arbitration, Mexico is found to have breached FET standard by denying environmental permit for exploitation of phosphate deposit to US investor; dissenter sees no FET breach in light of Mexico’s international obligations regarding environmental protection
  Dec 30, 2024
• Parties appoint Pierre Tercier to chair treaty arbitration against Poland over pharmacy investment
  Dec 24, 2024
• Revealed: UNCITRAL tribunal hearing mining dispute with Bolivia sees no prohibition against claims by dual nationals or need to prove denial of justice to establish judicial expropriation, but claims ultimately fail on the merits
  Dec 23, 2024
• NAFTA legacy arbitration against Mexico is bifurcated, but issues related to fulfilment of Salini criteria are joined with the merits
  Nov 11, 2024
• Laurent Lévy is tapped to chair ICSID arbitration against Trinidad and Tobago
  Oct 11, 2024
• ICSID tribunal suspends arbitral proceedings over claimants’ failure to comply with security for costs order
  Oct 08, 2024
• [Updated with Award] Tribunal issues award in NAFTA arbitration against Mexico stemming from state’s refusal to grant environmental permit
  Sep 17, 2024
• Analysis: UNCITRAL tribunal hearing treaty arbitration stemming from refusal to grant environmental permits for mining activities rules that relevance and materiality of expert report relate to the merits, not admissibility
  Sep 11, 2024
• [Updated with Order] Port concession arbitration against Albania is discontinued
  Aug 15, 2024
• ICSID tribunal dismisses power plant claim against Lebanon
  Jun 24, 2024
• Analysis: In Schoenberger v. Tajikistan, tribunal majority declines jurisdiction over “ordinary purchase of goods” transaction
  Jun 06, 2024
• Uncovered: UNCITRAL tribunal in Waleed Aljarallah v. Turkey finds that restriction of minority shareholder’s rights in aftermath of attempted coup does not amount to BIT violation
  Apr 26, 2024
• ICSID tribunal rejects bifurcation request, applying three-fold test codified in 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules
  Apr 17, 2024
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal found that Tanzania breached its investment treaty with Sweden when the state expropriated agricultural venture
  Apr 04, 2024
• Belgium is ordered to pay 41 million EUR for expropriation of port investment
  Feb 19, 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
• Tribunal dismisses treaty claims against Belarus, finding that Russian claimant engaged in fraudulent conduct
  Feb 02, 2024
• Analysis: NAFTA tribunal dismisses Mexico’s allegation that claimant breached waiver requirement by lodging second ICSID case
  Jan 18, 2024
• Alexis Mourre is tapped to chair NAFTA legacy taximeter arbitration against Mexico
  Jan 17, 2024
• Analysis: Micula v. Romania (I) tribunal majority finds that Romania’s request for interpretation of award is inadmissible
  Jan 04, 2024
• Micula v. Romania (I) tribunal rejects state’s request for interpretation
  Jan 03, 2024
• [Updated with Award] ICSID AF arbitration against Tajikistan concludes with award
  Dec 11, 2023
• ICSID tribunal orders claimant to post security for costs
  Nov 29, 2023
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal refuses to revoke provisional measures due to overlap with second NAFTA legacy claim
  Nov 07, 2023
• [Updated] Bolivia claims victory in mining arbitration
  Nov 03, 2023
• Arbitrators comings and goings: A successful arbitrator challenge, a new tribunal, and a resignation
  Nov 01, 2023
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal partially grants provisional measures in NAFTA legacy claim, directing Mexico to refrain from making VAT refunds into frozen accounts, but rejecting claims to suspend local proceedings or prohibit media statements
  Oct 31, 2023
• UNCITRAL tribunal dismisses under-the-radar treaty claim against Turkey
  Oct 19, 2023
• [Updated with Dissenting Opinion] Revealed: On jurisdiction, WCV v. Czech Republic tribunal split on meaning of “permanent seat”, admissibility of claims stemming from round-trip investments, and intra-EU objection
  Sep 04, 2023
• Czech Republic releases interim awards issued in gambling arbitration
  Aug 31, 2023
• Analysis: UNCITRAL tribunal in WCV v. Czech Republic finds that the state properly used its police powers to regulate the gambling sector
  Aug 16, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Czech Republic claims victory in UNCITRAL arbitration over video lottery terminals
  Jul 28, 2023
• UNCITRAL tribunal reportedly awards almost 30 million EUR to French government-controlled energy giant EDF in dispute under Energy Charter Treaty
  Jul 03, 2023
• Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is tapped to chair port arbitration against Albania
  Jun 23, 2023
• ICSID tribunal hearing uranium mining dispute dismisses Kyrgyzstan’s request for bifurcation of quantum issues
  May 19, 2023
• Analysis: Tribunal majority finds that China’s investment treaty with Singapore limits investment arbitration to disputes over the amount of compensation for expropriation; dissenter considers that BIT was not properly interpreted
  Feb 27, 2023
• AsiaPhos v. China tribunal issues its award, with a tribunal majority seeing no scope to rule on existence of expropriation under arbitration clause limited to disputes involving the amount of compensation for expropriation
  Feb 24, 2023
• Analysis: Tribunal majority in Gardabani v. Georgia treaty arbitration is unconvinced that compensation awarded in parallel contract arbitration renders claims inadmissible and proceeds to find umbrella clause breaches; Zachary Douglas criticizes result that effectively grants claimants double recovery
  Feb 23, 2023
• ICSID award and dissent in dispute between Russian-owned electricity companies and Georgia come to light, as claimants seek enforcement in multiple jurisdictions; arbitrators disagree on double recovery and interpretation of umbrella clause
  Feb 14, 2023
• Uncovered: Redacted version of SCC award against Georgia reveals that tribunal dealt with one additional claim and opted against awarding compound interest; related ICSID award and dissent remain unpublished
  Jan 20, 2023
• Three are in place to hear dispute over Kyrgyzstan’s uranium mining ban
  Jan 19, 2023
• Three are in place to hear telecoms arbitration under China-Saudi Arabia BIT
  Jan 10, 2023
• ICSID tribunal dismisses highway investors’ treaty claims against Kuwait
  Dec 30, 2022
• ICSID tribunal hearing Croatian golf course dispute reportedly rejects provisional measures request
  Dec 01, 2022
• Gardabani v. Georgia BIT arbitration concludes with an award, shortly after related contract case came to a close
  Oct 28, 2022
• ICSID tribunal rules on costs for preliminary phase while a ruling on the merits remains pending
  Aug 25, 2022
• Three are in place to hear coal power plant dispute with Senegal
  Aug 22, 2022
• Singaporean investors secure funding for treaty claim against China
  Aug 22, 2022
• Reasons surface for ICSID tribunal’s decision to recommend some (but reject other) provisional measures in Georgia telecoms dispute
  Aug 22, 2022
• Analysis: ICSID AF tribunal finds that Bolivia’s failure to proficiently nationalize pension system violated FET and non-impairment standards; arbitrators award compensation on condition that claimant make its stake in investment available to Bolivia
  Jul 21, 2022
• Kyrgyzstan is reportedly ordered to pay damages to Russian hydropower investor
  Jul 19, 2022
• Treaty tribunal finds that Spanish bank was held “hostage” by Bolivia’s slow-moving pension nationalization process; arbitrators award over 100 million USD in damages and orchestrate transfer of investment to the state
  Jul 14, 2022
• Tribunal is constituted to hear Romania’s bid for interpretation of Micula I award
  Jul 04, 2022
• ICSID tribunal orders provisional measures in telecoms case
  Jun 20, 2022
• ICSID tribunal finds that pre-ISDS inter-state negotiation requirement is jurisdictional in nature, but merely entails notification obligation for the claimant
  Jun 18, 2022
• Port arbitration against Egypt is discontinued
  Apr 29, 2022
• Analysis: ICSID Chair declines to disqualify Stanimir Alexandrov on account of his professional relationship with expert involved in Ukraine case
  Apr 19, 2022
• [Updated with Award] Arbitrations against Tanzania and Bosnia-Herzegovina conclude with awards
  Apr 19, 2022
• Stanimir Alexandrov survives challenge in arbitration against Ukraine
  Apr 18, 2022
• Analysis: Cremades-chaired tribunal finds conduct by Kazakhstan’s judiciary “questionable”, but deems it insufficiently flawed to amount to a denial of justice
  Apr 01, 2022
• Award in opaque arbitration against Kazakhstan surfaces, revealing reasons for dismissal of denial of justice claim
  Mar 29, 2022
• Romania requests interpretation of 2013 Micula award in light of ongoing US enforcement proceedings
  Mar 07, 2022
• CIS Round-Up: A new award is uncovered, two Supreme Court decisions, a failed set-aside bid, and other arbitration-related developments
  Feb 25, 2022
• Tribunal majority rejects request for amicus participation; Philippe Sands dissents, pointing to need to address concerns about legitimacy of ISDS regime
  Feb 10, 2022
• Ukraine challenges Stanimir Alexandrov in high-stakes energy arbitration
  Jan 28, 2022
• SCC and ICSID tribunals are in place, as first publicly known renewable energy arbitrations against Ukraine kick off
  Jan 19, 2022
• ICSID tribunal hearing claims against Nigeria is reconstituted, following the resignation of the claimant’s initial appointee
  Jan 17, 2022
• The Hague Court sets aside Cairn v. India award based on Cairn’s decision not to object to the set-aside application
  Jan 10, 2022
• Power generation arbitration against Saudi Arabia concludes with an award
  Dec 15, 2021
• UNCITRAL tribunal dismisses security for costs application and declines to issue partial award on advances for costs
  Dec 14, 2021
• Nigeria seeks to dislodge Stanimir Alexandrov from ICSID case
  Dec 13, 2021
• Georgia is ordered to pay 80 million USD in contract-based SCC arbitration
  Dec 03, 2021
• ICSID tribunal dismisses half-billion USD treaty claim against Kazakhstan
  Nov 29, 2021
• In NAFTA mining case, the United States and Canada express their opinions on national treatment, the minimum standard of treatment, expropriation, and the distinction between direct and reflective losses
  Nov 09, 2021
• Cairn and India move towards settlement of 1+ billion USD retroactive tax dispute
  Nov 04, 2021
• Three are in place to hear treaty-based claim over Damietta port project
  Nov 04, 2021
• ICSID tribunal finds discrete ECT breach in intra-EU case against Croatia, but claimant is awarded no damages due to lack of causation
  Oct 28, 2021
• Uncovered: Redacted partial award in contract-based Georgian electricity tariff dispute reveals tribunal’s approach to interpreting public law contracts, and suggests that a counterclaim was upheld
  Oct 13, 2021
• Updated: NAFTA tribunal dismisses request for interim measures, finding allegations of witness intimidation to be insufficiently substantiated
  Sep 07, 2021
• Three are in place to hear NAFTA legacy claim against Mexico
  Aug 29, 2021
• Analysis: UNCITRAL tribunal finds that tax measures amount to an indirect expropriation, but dismisses remaining claims arising out of failed Belarusian shopping mall investment; arbitrators disagree on jurisdiction under foreign investment law and standard for judicial expropriations
  Aug 27, 2021
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal declines jurisdiction after finding that hydro-energy investors may bring their claims jointly, but cannot add their individual claims to meet contractual quantitative preconditions to ICSID arbitration
  Aug 23, 2021
• Uncovered: ICSID tribunal denies both bifurcation of jurisdictional objections and “informal” bifurcation requested by the claimant, finding that adjustment of procedural calendar suffices to maximize efficiency and fairness
  Aug 10, 2021
• Details surface regarding provisional measures request in Georgia telecoms arbitration
  Aug 10, 2021
• Belarus asserts that UNCITRAL tribunal dismissed bulk of claims in treaty-based arbitration, but still awarded 19 million USD to the investor
  Aug 09, 2021
• Eiser claimants lodge resubmission proceedings in long-running renewables dispute with Spain
  Aug 02, 2021
• Revealed: Three are in place to hear treaty-based claim against China
  Jul 30, 2021
• Three are in place to hear golf course dispute at ICSID
  Jul 22, 2021
• Three are in place to hear Eni’s ICSID claim against Nigeria
  Jul 15, 2021
• Jan Paulsson is tapped to chair high-stakes energy arbitration against Ukraine
  Jun 30, 2021
• Analysis: ICC tribunal finds that the Dominican Republic violated its duty to negotiate a power purchase agreement, but only awards sunk costs
  Jun 02, 2021
• ICC tribunal holds the Dominican Republic liable for breach of wind energy concession, but the claimant is only awarded sunk costs
  May 12, 2021
• Tribunal is in place to hear Serbian telecoms case
  May 10, 2021
• Electricity tariff arbitration against Georgia proceeds to the next stage; Zachary Douglas dissents
  Apr 23, 2021
• Belgium is found liable in treaty-based port concession dispute
  Apr 14, 2021
• Tajikistan appears to follow familiar playbook in declining to participate in an investment arbitration procedure
  Apr 14, 2021
• ICSID tribunal bifurcates objection that BIT contains mandatory inter-state negotiation period as a precondition to investor-state claims
  Apr 08, 2021
• Kazakhstan Round-Up: New threats, details about a mining award, and an update on other arbitration disputes against the state
  Apr 01, 2021
• Breaking: Paris Court finds that PCA Secretary General lacked power to step into Libya arbitration when OIC Secretary General failed to appoint arbitrator
  Mar 26, 2021
• Pakistan applies for revision of $6 billion mining award
  Mar 17, 2021
• [Updated with Award] Billion-dollar claim against Colombia is dismissed on the merits, but tribunal finds that it lacks jurisdiction over the state’s counterclaim
  Mar 12, 2021
• Identity of Hong Kong-based investor bringing first treaty-based claim against Japan is revealed; names of arbitrators also come to light
  Mar 03, 2021
• TECO v. Guatemala saga continues, as the state files for annulment of resubmission award and seeks to focus attention on links between arbitrator and expert
  Feb 24, 2021
• Analysis: In recently-surfaced B3 v. Croatia award, arbitrators found that “bad faith” conduct by the state breached the FET standard, but saw no causal link with the alleged losses; Croatia was ordered to reimburse full costs
  Feb 22, 2021
• Three are in place to hear telecoms claim against Georgia
  Feb 19, 2021
• Uncovered: Kaufmann-Kohler chaired tribunal confirms that OIC Agreement contains consent to arbitration, but ultimately dismisses mining claims on the merits
  Feb 17, 2021
• Arbitration dispute over Egyptian fertilizer investment is settled
  Feb 05, 2021
• West Africa Round-Up: Two awards, one new tribunal, four new cases
  Jan 29, 2021
• Arbitration against Philippines concludes after investor sells stake in offshore gas field
  Jan 26, 2021
• Controlling shareholder of Turkish firm withdraws his BIT claim against Libya; proceedings are discontinued without prejudice
  Jan 12, 2021
• Analysis: in now-public award, BIT tribunal finds that retroactive change to tax law was “grossly unfair”; India ordered to withdraw tax demand and compensate for forced sale of investment
  Dec 29, 2020
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] A $1.2+ billion dollar loss for India as Cairn Energy prevails in new investment treaty award
  Dec 23, 2020
• Swiss Federal Tribunal dismisses set aside application in PCA BIT arbitration
  Dec 21, 2020
• Three are in place to hear treaty-based claim by investor in Panama Canal Consortium
  Dec 08, 2020
• [Updated] In a Supplementary Decision, a resubmission tribunal in TECO v. Guatemala orders payment of interest on costs award, but arbitrators disagree on interest rate
  Oct 22, 2020
• Raiffeisen v. Croatia tribunal follows Addiko and UniCredit decisions in rejecting intra-EU objection despite peculiar treaty provision that refers to compatibility with EU acquis
  Oct 13, 2020
• Turkey is facing under-the-radar UNCITRAL arbitration
  Sep 29, 2020
• Pakistan secures continued stay of enforcement of $6 billion Tethyan Copper award
  Sep 18, 2020
• Libya round-up: New tribunals, a discontinuation, and further details about a number of investment arbitrations against the state
  Aug 11, 2020
• [Updated with new document] Investors seek supplementary decision from Eiser v. Spain ad hoc committee
  Aug 01, 2020
• Egypt round-up: a settlement agreement, a new tribunal, and an update on 11 other arbitration claims against the state
  Jun 17, 2020
• Analysis: Eiser v. Spain annulment committee stresses its role as guardian of the ICSID system, imposes a “high” bar for double hatting, and finds that numerous undisclosed past and present connections between an arbitrator and the claimants’ quantum experts warrants annulment of the underlying award
  Jun 12, 2020
• Breaking: 128+ million EUR Spanish renewables award is annulled, as ad-hoc committee finds fault with arbitrator's undisclosed relationship to claimants' damages experts
  Jun 11, 2020
• Mexico round-up: an update on treaty-based disputes against the state
  Jun 03, 2020
• Revealed: Tercier-chaired tribunal finds jurisdiction in intra-EU AMF v. Czech Republic case, but a majority dismisses the case on the merits; a parallel treaty-based case is discontinued
  May 29, 2020
• Analysis: Resubmission tribunal in TECO v. Guatemala muses on questions of res judicata and grants additional compensation for decreased electricity prices, but arbitrators disagree on further damages
  May 22, 2020
• Breaking: Resubmission tribunal in TECO v. Guatemala case awards additional damages in long-running electricity distribution dispute
  May 14, 2020
• Breaking: Czech Republic prevails in arbitration disputes with former senator
  May 12, 2020
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines to suspend proceedings due to virus pandemic
  May 01, 2020
• Breaking: Blusun v. Italy award survives investors’ annulment request; committee sees no failure to consider key evidence on legitimate expectations
  Apr 14, 2020
• Hungary files for annulment of EUR 7 million Magyar Farming award
  Mar 20, 2020
• Tribunal denies Russian investor interim relief over criminal investigations and allegations of witness intimidation
  Mar 11, 2020
• Analysis: Tribunal’s decision that a state-appointed insolvency administrator should represent PNB Banka in ICSID arbitration prompts DQ bid
  Feb 26, 2020
• Analysis: In Gosling v. Mauritius, majority saw no treaty violation, stressing the absence of a right to build a real estate development on UNESCO world heritage site; Stanimir Alexandrov disagreed
  Feb 24, 2020
• UK Supreme Court finds in favour of Micula brothers and lifts stay of enforcement of ICSID award
  Feb 19, 2020
• In a majority ruling, ICSID tribunal rejects claims related to UNESCO world heritage site
  Feb 18, 2020
• Balkans round-up: Slovenian and Macedonian cases are discontinued, Bulgaria case moves to the merits, and awards loom in a quartet of other cases in the region
  Feb 03, 2020
• Romania round-up: As state reportedly moves to pay controversial Micula award, we provide an update on developments in seven investment treaty-based arbitrations
  Dec 17, 2019
• Central America Round-Up: An update on investment disputes involving Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
  Dec 09, 2019
• Pakistan lays out initial lines of attack for annulment of +$6 billion Tethyan Copper award
  Nov 20, 2019
• Magyar Farming v. Hungary tribunal awards compensation of EUR 7 million to UK-based investor
  Nov 13, 2019
• Looking Back: Alpha v. Ukraine tribunal openly denounced Salini criteria and found state liable for expropriation
  Nov 02, 2019
• Tribunal in place to hear treaty-based arbitration against Algeria, with Loretta Malintoppi tapped to chair
  Oct 29, 2019
• Philippines arbitration round-up: Chevron files BIT claim, as we review seven other arbitrations against the state and its instrumentalities
  Oct 04, 2019
• Tribunal of Malek, Alexandrov, and Paulsson selected for Ukrainian mining investors' BIT arbitration against North Macedonia
  Sep 13, 2019
• Three are in place to hear dispute under the UK-United Arab Emirates BIT, with Fernandez-Armesto tapped to chair
  Sep 13, 2019
• Analysis: in previously-confidential SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award, arbitrators lay out reasons for finding jurisdiction and awarding €40 million to investor for breach of the ECT
  Sep 04, 2019
• Investment treaty claim over refurbishing of Riyadh airport is discontinued
  Aug 27, 2019
• In Tethyan Copper v. Pakistan corruption decision, arbitrators decide that Pakistan failed to submit “solid” and “persuasive” evidence of corruption in the making or performance of the investment
  Aug 15, 2019
• Newly-published damages award reveals that Tethyan v. Pakistan tribunal adopted ‘modern DCF’ valuation method
  Aug 14, 2019
• Spain round-up: an update on new rulings, imminent ones, and new cases
  Aug 08, 2019
• Tethyan Copper Company v. Pakistan: until-now confidential 2017 liability decision reveals tribunal’s reasons for finding breach of legitimate expectation to receive a mining licence
  Jul 29, 2019
• Updated with full analysis: Tribunal in Orlandini v Bolivia case rejects request to terminate proceedings, as well as application for security for costs
  Jul 26, 2019
• Pakistan faces hefty loss in newly-rendered ICSID award in Tethyan Copper mining case; core damages exceed $4 billion, and pre-award interest adds another $1.75 billion 
  Jul 14, 2019
• Libya Round-up: new investment treaty claims, new rulings, and updates on arbitrator appointments
  May 23, 2019
• Investigation: four previously-confidential claims under OIC Investment Agreement are uncovered, as controversy continues over treaty's use in arbitration
  May 16, 2019
• Kuwait investment arbitration round-up: new claims, new appointments, and updates on procedural status of older cases
  May 10, 2019
• In recently-released decisions, UNCITRAL tribunal declines India’s request for greater transparency in Cairn tax case, and rejects state’s unilateral right to file arbitration documents with local courts
  May 02, 2019
• Kyrgyzstan round-up: new tribunals, new disputes, and updates on multiple longer-running matters
  Apr 30, 2019
• Croatia found in breach of BIT, but not liable for any damages in dispute over bankrupted express courier
  Apr 11, 2019
• ICSID picks Stanimir Alexandrov to chair arbitration over Bolivian pension system
  Apr 04, 2019
• Tribunal in City-State N.V. v. Ukraine case rejects claimant's application, deeming it an attempt to appeal against earlier award
  Feb 07, 2019
• Arbitrator Gaetan Verhoosel steps aside after challenge
  Jan 23, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Lucinda Low tapped to chair tribunal that will hear BIT claim over cancellation of concession
  Jan 04, 2019
• BIT tribunal invites parties to offer views on the consequences of Brexit for purposes of an intra-EU objection to jurisdiction
  Dec 30, 2018
• Tribunal in place, with Alexandrov in chair, to hear ICC arbitration arising out of Caribbean wind farm
  Dec 20, 2018
• Ukraine round-up: Philip Morris BIT threat leads to settlement of dispute; an update on five other pending investment arbitrations
  Dec 05, 2018
• Latin American Round-Up: new disputes, tribunals and other news involving Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico
  Dec 04, 2018
• Austrian investor prevails in BIT claim against Republic of Serbia
  Nov 21, 2018
• [UPDATED] Latvia seeks to disqualify Stanimir Alexandrov from Norvik investment treaty arbitration
  Sep 24, 2018
• An update on investment treaty disputes involving the Government of India
  Aug 23, 2018
• A tribunal is chosen for investor arbitration filed under Eurasian Economic Union investment treaty
  Aug 15, 2018
• Arbitrators issue urgent order that prosecutors not follow through with plans to interrogate investor, thus highlighting scope for emergency measures under ICSID system
  Aug 13, 2018
• In jurisdictional ruling, arbitrators view improprieties surrounding claimant's acquisition of assets as part of a quid pro quo where he transported "suitcases of cash" out of country so as to assist his country in eluding an international embargo
  Aug 13, 2018
• In now-surfaced Gavrilovic v. Croatia award, tribunal ruled on expropriation, fair and equitable treatment, umbrella clause and national treatment
  Aug 13, 2018
• Challenge filed against Eduardo Zuleta as hearings loom
  Aug 10, 2018
• After Saudi Arabia fails to dislodge arbitrator, government moves to disqualify opposing counsel in BIT case - leading to a new ruling
  Aug 08, 2018
• Ukraine held liable for breach of bilateral investment treaty due to state's failure to protect investors' funds in financial institution
  Jul 31, 2018
• Croatian dispute with Austrian investor culminates in an award
  Jul 27, 2018
• Newly-surfaced A11Y v. Czech Republic decisions reveal Fortier-chaired tribunal's reasoning on unusual umbrella clause, cooling-off periods and veil-piercing - as well as tribunal disagreements on application of MFN and objective criteria for investment
  Jul 26, 2018
• Parties turn to James Spigelman to chair bank investor claim against Latvia
  Jul 06, 2018
• Czech Republic prevails in UNCITRAL claim for alleged expropriation of visual impairment aids business
  Jul 01, 2018
• Replacement arbitrator is named by Kazakhstan after earlier nominee was disqualified
  Jun 19, 2018
• Arbitrator recuses himself from deciding challenge to a colleague, paving way for Chairman of ICSID Administrative Council to issue ruling - and dismiss challenge to Stanimir Alexandrov
  May 30, 2018
• UNCITRAL BIT tribunal issues jurisdictional ruling in claims brought against Czech Republic by a Czech Senator's Cypriot companies; dispute centers on permitting of video lottery terminals
  May 10, 2018
• Libya claims round-up: new developments under OIC treaty; Greenwood to chair a newly-filed ICC BIT case; two hearings loom in longer-running arbitrations
  May 07, 2018
• In a rare development, a pair of ICSID arbitrators decide that a colleague must be disqualified
  May 04, 2018
• Saudi Arabia's challenge to Stanimir Alexandrov is rejected
  Apr 30, 2018
• Parties agree on John R. Crook to chair Macedonia mining arbitration
  Apr 24, 2018
• Tribunal of Escobar, Alexandrov and Silva Romero is in place to hear unpublicized UNCITRAL BIT claim brought by US investors alleging Honduras expropriation
  Apr 05, 2018
• Singaporean investor takes u-turn in BIT arbitration with Indonesia, leading to split tribunal order
  Mar 22, 2018
• Arbitrator challenges: Bernard Hanotiau survives challenge in pending BIT arbitration; Saudi Arabia lodges challenge to Stanimir Alexandrov
  Mar 19, 2018
• Balkans round-up: catching up on various investment treaty claims in South-East Europe, including tribunal constitution, an arbitrator challenge, and other key developments
  Mar 04, 2018
• Hans van Houtte tapped to chair LP Egypt Holdings I, LLC claim against Egypt
  Feb 27, 2018
• Christopher Greenwood to chair Tanzania sugarcane claim
  Feb 25, 2018
• Grigera-Naon steps down in Republic of Georgia BIT arbitration, and a replacement is lined up
  Feb 20, 2018
• Lucy Reed is chosen to chair claims by Raiffeisen Bank against Croatia in relation to Swiss Franc mortgage controversy
  Feb 16, 2018
• Juan Fernández-Armesto is tapped to chair UNCITRAL BIT claim against Belarus
  Feb 12, 2018
• After ICSID tribunal is constituted, US investor Big Sky Energy Corporation seeks to disqualify arbitrator nominated by Kazakhstan
  Jan 30, 2018
• Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler selected to chair Magyar Farming v. Hungary arbitration
  Jan 05, 2018
• Arbitrators reshuffled in investment treaty claims against Belgium and Spain
  Dec 15, 2017
• ANALYSIS: as interim measures ruling surfaces, both parties are seen to emerge empty-handed - including in relation to anti-suit injunction request - in Rizzani de Eccher v. Kuwait arbitration
  Dec 07, 2017
• Czech Republic round-up: an update on pending treaty-based claims
  Dec 06, 2017
• Arbitrators decline provisional measures request in investor claim against Kuwait
  Dec 04, 2017
• ICSID taps Alexandrov to chair Oleovest v. Indonesia arbitration
  Dec 01, 2017
• Austria prevails, as Pryles-chaired tribunal dismisses claims under Maltese investment treaty
  Nov 01, 2017
• Looking Back: In first treaty claim under SCC rules, arbitrators in the long-opaque Biedermann case held Kazakhstan liable for breaching US-Kazak BIT, and rejected counterclaim on merits
  Nov 01, 2017
• While rejecting merits of pending challenge, Alexandrov resigns, citing the fact that one of his two co-arbitrators has seeming doubts of his impartiality; Joubin-Bret also steps aside to take key UNCITRAL post
  Oct 26, 2017
• Co-arbitrators declare themselves to be "equally divided" on challenge to third tribunal member, thus putting ICSID in the driver's seat
  Oct 21, 2017
• Spain follows up on its annulment strategy by filing a request to disqualify arbitrator
  Sep 18, 2017
• Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID's leadership
  Sep 17, 2017
• Pakistan's effort to disqualify Stanimir Alexandrov in Tethyan Copper case proves unsuccessful
  Sep 07, 2017
• Cavinder Bull chosen to chair Kuwait investment treaty arbitration
  Aug 14, 2017
• As Spain seeks to annul Energy Charter Treaty award, government hires outside law firm and complains about arbitrator's relationship with damages experts 
  Jul 27, 2017
• As damages phase unfolds in Pakistan mining case, a challenge is lodged against Stanimir Alexandrov - citing his client's alleged interest in a rarely-used valuation method under scrutiny
  Jul 11, 2017
• Libya investment treaty claims: another claim surfaces and another tribunal is finalized
  Jun 29, 2017
• Details surface of Russian power company' claims against Georgia; complaints include government’s refusal to adjust electricity tariff and to compensate for currency depreciation
  Jun 29, 2017
• In newly unearthed Uzbekistan ruling, exorbitant fees promised to consultants on eve of tender process are viewed by tribunal as evidence of corruption, leading to dismissal of all claims under Dutch BIT
  Jun 22, 2017
• In an innovative award, arbitrators pressure Uzbekistan – under threat of adverse cost order - to donate to UN anti-corruption initiative; also propose future treaty-drafting changes that would penalize states for corruption
  Jun 22, 2017
• In Blusun v. Italy award, intra-EU objection is rejected, ECT's environmental impact provision is interpreted, and concerns about lawfulness of investment are overcome due to repeated "acts of approval"
  Jun 07, 2017
• ANALYSIS: in new award, Italian renewables changes appear less dramatic than those in recent Spain case, thus leading to failure of Blusun's FET claim; arbitrators disagree on expropriation assessment
  Jun 07, 2017
• Looking Back: In Impregilo v Pakistan case, arbitrators needed to grapple with distinction between treaty/contract claims and scope of umbrella clause
  May 22, 2017
• In depth: arbitrators in Eiser award deem ECT to protect against "total" and unreasonable regulatory change, but tax measure is excluded; Spain fails in bid to admit favourable SCC award into evidence
  May 11, 2017
• Spain's arbitral winning streak comes to a halt, as ICSID tribunal awards 128 million euro (plus interest) for changes made in solar sector
  May 05, 2017
• ICSID Annulment Round-Up: requests filed in relation to awards involving Italy, Hungary, Argentina and Venezuela
  May 03, 2017
• David Caron is picked to chair Lebanon BIT case
  May 02, 2017
• As India's key jurisdictional objections come into view in tax cases, tribunals diverge as to whether they should be addressed on a preliminary basis
  May 01, 2017
• "Quasi-consolidation" of billion dollar retroactive tax cases is nixed; arbitrators also rule that Cairn v. India case should not be stayed in deference to Vedanta proceeding
  Apr 28, 2017
• After Organisation for Islamic Cooperation fails to nominate an arbitrator to sit in investor-state case, PCA breaks stalemate by designating an appointing authority
  Mar 31, 2017
• Energy Charter Treaty claim against Croatia now has a full tribunal in place
  Feb 23, 2017
• Narrow investor-state clause bars investor (A11Y Ltd.) from pursuing FET claim vs Czech Republic, but intra-EU BIT objection is rejected and expro claim will go forward
  Feb 14, 2017
• On the wires: Philippines liable for BIT breach; investor that won emergency orders vs. Ukraine does not fare as well in final result; Iranians pursue Bahrain over bank closure
  Feb 12, 2017
• New faces will hear resubmitted claim for higher damages in Teco v. Guatemala case, with Vaughan Lowe now in the chair
  Feb 12, 2017
• Tribunal is finalized, with Rigo Sureda in chair, to hear Mauritius property dispute centered on UNESCO World Heritage site
  Jan 27, 2017
• ANALYSIS: Enforcement of controversial ICSID award against Romania is stayed by UK judge pending EU Court decision, but investors may get security from Romania in interim
  Jan 23, 2017
• Arbitrator Stanimir Alexandrov steps aside in face of challenge in intra-EU BIT case
  Dec 16, 2016
• As sun sets on one Italy renewables arbitration, another rises
  Dec 09, 2016
• Investor makes good on threat to file BIT arbitration over cross-border water export project - and sees its arbitrator nominee swiftly challenged
  Oct 18, 2016
• Local court affirms UNCITRAL tribunal's dismissal of Vietnamese BIT claim centered on unpaid invoices for cross-border sales by Recofi SA
  Oct 13, 2016
• ANALYSIS: where do matters stand with respect to Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain?
  Sep 28, 2016
• Austria-Serbia BIT tribunal is finalized, with selection of John Townsend as chair
  Jul 26, 2016
• Chair is chosen for Veolia's investment treaty arbitration against Lithuania
  Jul 18, 2016
• The Philip Morris v. Uruguay award on the merits: part two of our three part analysis, focusing on the FET and umbrella clause claims
  Jul 10, 2016
• Arbitrators are selected to hear clash between Gabriel Resources and Romania over controversial mine project
  Jun 26, 2016
• INVESTIGATION: Vietnam prevails in UNCITRAL BIT arbitration with (another) French investor
  May 29, 2016
• Italy update: news on five Energy Charter Treaty claims by solar investors
  May 29, 2016
• The Czech Republic: updates on fifteen investment treaty disputes
  May 24, 2016
• ANALYSIS: As domestic courts second-guess arbitral verdicts in past Yukos cases, three more tribunals are currently assessing whether they have jurisdiction over Russia under ECT
  Apr 25, 2016
• Spain update: more claims surface in Stockholm and at ICSID, and several new tribunals are finalized
  Mar 03, 2016
• In-depth: exploring the reasons why an ICSID annulment committee has declined Romania's bid to annul Micula award
  Feb 28, 2016
• European Commission's arguments before Micula annulment committee are dismissed, but E.C. says that its non-enforceability arguments are gaining purchase in member-state courts
  Feb 28, 2016
• Veolia announces request for arbitration has been filed against Lithuania
  Jan 27, 2016
• Tribunal is finalized for tax-related BIT dispute between Cairn Energy PLC and Government of India
  Jan 20, 2016
• TransCanada's threatened $15 billion claim against the United States could stoke debate over scope to take "politically-motivated" measures
  Jan 08, 2016
• Tribunal finalized to scrutinize Austria's treatment of investor in financial institution - and whether authorities' prolonged criminal investigations breach BIT protections
  Nov 20, 2015
• ICSID renewables claims against Spain reach 23, along with some signs of repeat arbitrator appointments - but no common chairs as yet
  Nov 17, 2015
• ICSID Secretary-General acts as appointing authority to finalize two tribunals in cases against Dominican Republic and Panama
  Oct 23, 2015
• Arbitral claims start to mount against Italy, as new ECT claim lands at ICSID
  Sep 23, 2015
• Tribunals constituted in ICSID cases against Uzbekistan, Croatia, Lebanon and East Timor, while replacement is named for Venezuela case following arbitrator resignation
  Aug 10, 2015
• INVESTIGATION: as Yukos enforcement grabs headlines, Russia has faced at least 10 new treaty arbitrations since 2012, with others threatened
  Jul 14, 2015
• An UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over a joint treaty claim brought against Turkmenistan by a series of unrelated claimants (Erhas Dis Ticaret Ltd. Sti. and others)
  Jun 23, 2015
• Czech Republic: Govt releases cache of BIT awards, strives to collect costs orders, and currently faces eleven pending treaty claims
  Feb 24, 2015
• In-Depth: the Fraport v. Philippines (2) award
  Jan 27, 2015
• Arbitral tribunals constituted in three cases: EuroGas v. Slovakia, City-State v. Ukraine and InfraRed v. Spain
  Jan 21, 2015
• Intra-EU treaty claims controversy: new decisions and developments in claims brought by EU investors vs. Spain and Hungary
  Dec 24, 2014
• Arbitrators dismiss Fraport's second attempt to hold the Philippines liable for breach of BIT in airport dispute
  Dec 11, 2014
• Egypt arbitration round-up: updates on U.S. and German investor claims at ICSID, and on three ad-hoc claims under OIC agreement
  Nov 05, 2014
• ICSID Tribunals finalized in Blusun and others v. Italy and PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd. v. Papua New Guinea
  Jun 30, 2014
• Annulment is not an appeal: ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses Paraguay's application to annul SGS v. Paraguay award
  Jun 13, 2014
• UNCITRAL Arbitrations Update (Vietnam and Canada): Appointing authorities pick chairs in a pair of investment treaty claims
  Apr 09, 2014
• Tribunals named for Transglobal v. Panama, Spentex v. Uzbekistan and Federal Elektrik v. Uzbekistan arbitrations
  Feb 23, 2014
• As Vietnam explores collection of costs award against unsuccessful investor, another claimant sticks its head above the parapet
  Feb 14, 2014
• UNCITRAL tribunal will hear Turkmenistan's argument that a bloc of claimants can't band together to bring a multi-party BIT claim
  Jan 08, 2014
• In Micula v. Romania case, EU expresses doubts as to legality of ordering EU state to compensate investors for lost incentives
  Jan 06, 2014
• Majority of tribunal sets high bar for relying on treaty's umbrella clause: commitments to investors must be vested rights under local law
  Jan 06, 2014
• Investors seek injunctive relief and channeling of damages to select claimants in Romania case; should damages reflect benefits for claimants of joining EU?
  Jan 06, 2014
• In analysis of legitimate expectations, arbitrators ask whether investors or Romania bore "the risk of regulatory change"
  Jan 06, 2014
• Arbitrators find fault with Romania for not apprising investors "reasonably soon" after it had become clear that incentives would need to be revoked
  Jan 06, 2014
• Arbitrators award damages for actual losses, as well as some future lost profits in dispute over withdrawn investment incentives
  Jan 06, 2014
• After failure of claim under Kazakh statute, Canadian miner hopes that USSR-Canada investment treaty permits arbitration with Kazakhstan
  Dec 18, 2013
• After 8 year ICSID marathon, foreign investors win $250 million in damages and interest in dispute with Romania arising out of withdrawn incentives
  Dec 12, 2013
• ICSID annulment committees decline to annul arbitral awards in Malicorp v. Egypt and Lemire v. Ukraine
  Jul 10, 2013
• ICSID arbitrators named for UAB Energia v. Latvia and Georg Gavrilovic v. Croatia cases; replacements picked for Zimbabwe and Peru tribunals
  Jul 07, 2013
• In previously unpublished award, arbitrators find jurisdiction to hear Ukraine’s counter claim under treaty, but also find unfair treatment and expropriation
  Jun 12, 2013
• Arbitrators in mining dispute don’t see necessity to order Pakistan to refrain from conduct that it says it won’t pursue anyway
  Dec 21, 2012
• Personnel picked for several ICSID annulment committees; Philip Morris v. Australia case leads to resignation of a pair of arbitrators
  Dec 21, 2012
• Kuwaiti investor may restart discontinued ICSID claim labeled ‘duplicative’ by parallel ICC tribunal
  Apr 30, 2012
• Ukraine’s liability to German investor is quantified in BIT dispute
  Mar 26, 2012
• ICSID Round-Up: Two tribunals are selected to hear foreign investor claims against the Philippines
  Mar 14, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators in Paraguay dispute entertain broad view of fair and equitable treatment, and reject narrow reading of “investments” eligible for ICSID arbitration
  Mar 12, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Tribunal in Paraguay jurisdictional ruling viewed treaty’s umbrella clause as broad and encompassing many commitments
  Mar 12, 2012
• Paraguay must pay 57+ Million Dollars after arbitrators rule that non-payment of contractual invoices breaches “umbrella” promise in investment treaty
  Mar 06, 2012
• Arbitrators dismiss UNCITRAL investment treaty claim due to failure of claimant to begin in local courts (Argentina)
  Feb 16, 2012
• Challenge to member of ICSID ad-hoc committee presiding in Panama energy dispute is rejected by his colleagues
  Sep 23, 2011
• ICSID panelists named in annulment cases involving El Salvador and Egypt, and in arbitration arising out of Niger airport services dispute
  Aug 19, 2011
• Foreign investors withdraw request that arbitrators order government to reinstate certain incentives; as final award looms, arbitrators tell state officials to give two months notice before assets are seized in tax dispute
  Jul 07, 2011
• One committee member resigns, as two are challenged in ICSID annulment proceeding; U.S. energy investor seeking to annul arbitral award in Panama in tax dispute
  Jun 09, 2011
• Mining company’s arbitration against Kazakhstan under foreign investment statute is dismissed due to time-bar
  May 03, 2011
• Ukraine liable for expropriating Austrian investor's rights in hotel project
  Nov 11, 2010
• Jurisdictional ruling issued in Germany-Ukraine BIT case
  May 07, 2010
• Challenge rejected against arbitrator on basis of shared educational background
  Apr 09, 2010
• In parallel decisions, tribunals diverge on admissibility of umbrella clause claims
  Mar 18, 2010
• Arbitrators selected in ICSID proceedings against Cambodia, Ecuador, Jordan, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile
  Jan 16, 2010
• Lawyer can’t wear two hats in arbitrations with Argentina; challenge to arbitrator upheld in UNCITRAL BIT claim
  Dec 21, 2009
• Tribunal in Bureau Veritas v. Paraguay upholds broad potential reading of umbrella clause, but courts must weigh in
  Jun 09, 2009
• ANALYSIS: Stakes higher in Micula v. Romania case given tribunal’s signal that it could order restitution of legal framework?
  May 11, 2009
• European Commission moves to intervene in ICSID arbitration related to withdrawal of investment incentives by Romania
  May 11, 2009
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators nix Romania’s plea that Swedish citizens were effectively Romanians, and unqualified to sue at ICSID
  Oct 01, 2008