Lawrence Boo - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Lawrence Boo

• Analysis: Global Telecom Holding v. Canada award withstands annulment bids by both parties, as ICSID ad hoc committee sees no reason to annul either the tribunal’s decision to uphold jurisdiction over national security review mechanism, or the ultimate dismissal of GTH’s claims
  Apr 03, 2023
• Analysis: Ad hoc committee in Watkins v. Spain finds no flaws in the rejection of the intra-EU objection, and confirms validity of award despite error in the quantification of damages
  Feb 28, 2023
• ICSID committee dismisses requests for reconsideration of previous decisions on stay of enforcement and on Venezuela’s representation
  Feb 17, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Decision] ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses both parties’ bids to annul award in telecoms dispute with Canada
  Oct 03, 2022
• Analysis: RREEF v. Spain committee is unconvinced that intra-EU arguments warrant annulment of the award
  Jun 24, 2022
• Venezuela files yet another adjudicator challenge in long-running oil and gas dispute
  Jun 22, 2022
• Another Spanish annulment bid fails, as RREEF successfully defends its 60 million EUR award
  Jun 16, 2022
• Ad hoc committee hearing long-running Conoco v. Venezuela dispute is reconstituted
  Jun 03, 2022
• Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee rejects all 22 arguments in support of Spain’s bid to annul NextEra award
  Mar 31, 2022
• [Updated with a copy of the decision] NextEra v. Spain committee dismisses the state’s annulment bid
  Mar 24, 2022
• Lawrence Boo is tapped to chair treaty claim against Uzbekistan
  Feb 15, 2022
• TECO v. Guatemala resubmission annulment committee accepts evidence that was not submitted in the underlying arbitration
  Oct 11, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee decides to continue stay of wind energy award
  Jul 01, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee hearing latest chapter of TECO v. Guatemala saga orders continuation of stay of enforcement
  May 25, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee is named to hear cross annulment requests in mining dispute
  Apr 16, 2021
• An ICSID annulment committee is in place to hear Guatemala’s bid to annul resubmission award in long-running electricity arbitration
  Apr 01, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee is tasked with reviewing wind energy award
  Jan 15, 2021
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland seeks applicants for ICSID panels, the UK reveals its panel nominees, and Egypt arbitration sees new chair
  Nov 23, 2020
• Committee orders continued stay of enforcement of RREEF v. Spain award, citing concerns about non-recoupment
  Oct 29, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Three replacements and one resignation
  Oct 22, 2020
• Three are in place to hear bids by both parties to annul telecoms award
  Sep 24, 2020
• Lawrence Boo is tapped to chair ICSID committee in RREEF v. Spain annulment proceedings
  Jul 18, 2020
• Stay of enforcement is terminated in renewables case, after Spain fails to provide an undertaking to comply with the underlying award
  Jun 01, 2020
• Three are in place to hear second arbitration arising out of Egyptian gas pipeline dispute
  Apr 20, 2020
• Spain is granted conditional stay of enforcement in renewables case, but argument on potential EU penalty for payment of ICSID award does not gain traction with ad hoc committee
  Apr 10, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee extends stay of enforcement of Caratube II award, referring to the claimants’ conduct relative to previous arbitration
  Dec 19, 2019
• An ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear Spain’s bid to annul NextEra Energy award
  Dec 17, 2019
• Baltic Round-Up: An update on arbitration claims against Latvia and Lithuania
  Dec 09, 2019
• Two cases are discontinued at ICSID - against Slovakia and Lithuania - after failures to pay advances on costs
  Nov 06, 2019
• ANALYSIS: SCB v. Tanzania award deems that purchase of a loan agreement qualifies as an investment and transfer of payments under that loan to a third party amounts to an indirect expropriation
  Oct 22, 2019
• Breaking: arbitrators order Tanzania to pay $185 million (US) in damages to Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)
  Oct 15, 2019
• Caratube v. Kazakhstan (II): Parties resume previously-suspended annulment proceedings; an ICSID ad hoc committee is formed, with Eduardo Zuleta tapped to chair
  Sep 26, 2019
• Alpiq v. Romania: Ad-hoc committee is formed to hear annulment application, with Toby Landau tapped to chair
  Sep 19, 2019
• Venezuela round-up: ICSID ad hoc committee rejects annulment bid in Highbury case, a new chair is named for Saint Patrick case, and another annulment proceeding is discontinued
  Sep 11, 2019
• Tribunal is finalized to hear fight over Lithuanian bank deposits, with Lawrence Boo in the chair
  Feb 21, 2019
• When Venezuelan state fails to pay advance on costs, annulment committee lifts stay on Saint-Gobain award before proceedings are suspended - thus leading to $42 million award becoming public as part of enforcement effort
  Dec 17, 2018
• Three are named to review latest Venezuela arbitral award
  Jun 09, 2018
• Arbitrators picked for latest arbitration by Standard Chartered Bank over Tanzanian power project
  May 24, 2016
• Annulment round-up: Teco and Guatemala each seek review of CAFTA arbitral ruling; ad-hoc committee members named for Kazakh and Turkmen cases
  Apr 29, 2014