Andreas Bucher - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Andreas Bucher

• ICSID tribunal hearing treaty dispute featuring allegations of forgery and wrongful criminal proceeding clarifies and complements earlier provisional measures and document production order, but declines to find non-compliance by the state
  Oct 14, 2024
• Analysis: Tribunal hearing treaty dispute with Qatar stemming from criminal conviction of FIFA World Cup consultant declines to hear ratione materiae and illegality objections in bifurcated proceeding
  Sep 12, 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
• Revealed: Russia succeeds in disqualifying two arbitrators in ongoing and heretofore-confidential Crimea arbitration
  Jan 23, 2024
• ICSID tribunal splits over document production, as chair opines that tribunal majority should have ordered production of personal documents seized by respondent
  Dec 11, 2023
• [Updated with document and analysis] ICSID tribunal decides that 2022 Arbitration Rules are applicable in case where notice of dispute was filed before July 2022, but request for arbitration was lodged after the new Rules' entry into force
  Mar 15, 2023
• Three are in place to hear French consultant’s treaty claim against Qatar
  Jan 27, 2023
• [Updated] Three treaty-based banking cases against Croatia are discontinued, while another Swiss loan arbitration is nearing an end
  Jul 16, 2021
• Looking Back: Tribunal in Phoenix v. Czech Republic declined jurisdiction after finding that the investment had not been made in good faith
  Jan 12, 2021
• Dominique Hascher is tapped to chair Venezuela’s bid to annul +$8 billion (US) Conoco award
  Feb 04, 2020
• Venezuela files for annulment of hefty ConocoPhillips award
  Dec 18, 2019
• UPDATED: Tribunal agrees to correct errors in Conoco v. Venezuela award, thus stripping $227 million off of $8.3 billion previously awarded
  Aug 30, 2019
• ANALYSIS: Ad hoc committee partially annuls St. Lucia award because tribunal dismissed it “with prejudice” opening path to future arbitration - while upholding tribunal right to order security for costs
  May 09, 2019
• ConocoPhillips v. Venezuela award (analysis 1 of 2): tribunal considers contractual liability caps and supports ex-post valuation at date of award
  Mar 11, 2019
• ConocoPhillips v. Venezuela award (analysis 2 of 2): tribunal rules on questions of evidence, discount rate, and costs
  Mar 11, 2019
• Egypt Round-up: an update on new investment claims, settlements, and arbitrator appointments
  Nov 30, 2018
• Looking Back (1 of 2): CSOB v. Slovakia arbitrators see a unique basis for jurisdiction, as BIT that had not entered into force is incorporated into parties’ contract
  Sep 28, 2018
• Looking Back (2 of 2): CSOB v. Slovakia tribunal recommended suspension of domestic bankruptcy proceeding and rendered the largest damages award in ICSID history to that date
  Sep 28, 2018
• Andres Rigo Sureda is tapped to chair Austrian investor's (Erste Group Bank) claim against Croatia
  Jun 24, 2018
• As ICSID process grinds on, ICC tribunal weighs in with ruling under contract and orders PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips $2 billion for breach of oil contracts
  Apr 25, 2018
• Three are selected to hear RSM's attempt to overturn dismissal of claim against Saint Lucia
  Jan 19, 2017
• In new decision, ConocoPhillips tribunal rules on Venezuela's plea - bolstered by WikiLeaks cables - that it had offered market-value compensation for taking
  Jan 18, 2017
• ANALYSIS: arbitrators in Urbaser v. Argentina water dispute deviate from prior Impregilo award on necessity and damages
  Jan 12, 2017
• In a first, BIT tribunal finds that it has jurisdiction to hear a host state's counterclaim related to investor's alleged violation of international human rights obligations
  Jan 12, 2017
• Argentina ducks damages in long-awaited award arising out of water concession
  Dec 11, 2016
• In contractual ICSID case, Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong v. TANESCO, arbitral tribunal finds that it has power to re-evaluate its earlier decision due to respondent’s omission of key facts
  Oct 02, 2016
• Another challenge to Yves Fortier in ConocoPhillips case is rejected - this time on eve of hearings - but co-arbitrators decline to order costs against Venezuela
  Jul 26, 2016
• As first of two sets of hearings loom in Conoco-Venezuela BIT case, parties prepare to air multiple arguments that could affect subsequent damages calculations
  Jul 04, 2016
• Balkans update: unpublicized treaty cases come to light - Medusa v. Montenegro and Civis v. Serbia - and an arbitrator challenge to Jernej Sekolec shakes up an ad-hoc tribunal
  Apr 19, 2016
• UPDATED: Conoco v. Venezuela ICSID case stalls again as chairman Kenneth Keith resigns, and appears in danger of being eclipsed by parallel ICC arbitration
  Mar 23, 2016
• Co-arbitrators reject Venezuela's fifth effort to disqualify Yves Fortier in Conoco case, as similar bid remains afoot in another Venezuela case
  Mar 15, 2016
• In-depth: Conoco majority restates its prior reasoning on powers to reconsider, while dissenter finds that post-award remedies available to Venezuela are not viable
  Feb 10, 2016
• Majority of tribunal once again disavows authority to reconsider pivotal 2013 expropriation ruling in Conoco v. Venezuela arbitration
  Feb 09, 2016
• Venezuela fails in record fourth bid to unseat Yves Fortier in Conoco v. Venezuela arbitration
  Dec 16, 2015
• In new BIT award, claimant, Guardian Fiduciary Trust Ltd, fails to convince tribunal that its complicated ownership structure meets control criterion of Dutch treaty
  Oct 12, 2015
• With new ConocoPhillips tribunal in place, Venezuela asks ICSID arbitrators to reconsider previous decision on reconsideration
  Aug 12, 2015
• In newly-disclosed UNCITRAL award, German investor's ("ECE") failed corruption allegations directed at Czech Republic come to light
  Apr 29, 2015
• Arbitrators see no merits breaches in shopping center project dispute and use site-visit to assess investor's complaints of discrimination vis-a-vis other projects
  Apr 29, 2015
• Losing claimant drops effort to annul award from Peru banking crisis arbitration - and pays earlier costs order
  Oct 01, 2014
• Arbitrators finalized for Dagher v. Sudan, African Petroleum v. Gambia, more Spain solar cases, and Rose Levy v. Peru annulment committee
  Aug 17, 2014
• Germany-Poland BIT award in Norzucker case adopts novel approach to claims centered on events that occurred before arbitral consent was given
  Dec 10, 2013
• In jurisdiction ruling, foreign investor bidding in privatization – but failing to acquire assets - is entitled to some treaty protection
  Dec 10, 2013
• In merits award, opaque and protracted privatization process breaches treaty even though no investment was made
  Dec 10, 2013
• In previously-unseen damages award (Nordzucker v. Poland), investor can't prove causal link between mistreatment during Polish tender and future lost profits
  Dec 10, 2013
• Czech Republic says it prevailed in BIT arbitration with German property-developer ECE, but offers few details
  Oct 09, 2013
• Panelists named in Honduras and Macedonia disputes at ICSID
  May 30, 2013
• Arbitrators in water privatization dispute dismiss all jurisdictional objections raised by Argentina in face of Spanish investors’ claims
  Mar 17, 2013
• ICSID tribunal weighs in with unanimous reading of local litigation requirement found in Argentine bilateral investment treaty
  Mar 17, 2013
• Tribunal’s (later-annulled) reasoning on notion of investment, and reasons for a dissent are finally revealed in Mitchell v Democratic Republic of Congo case
  Jan 17, 2013
• Co-Arbitrators reject argument that colleague should be disqualified due to positions taken in academic writings (Urbaser v. Argentina)
  Sep 15, 2010
• Canada settles NAFTA claim by pulp & paper company for $130 Million; spotlight turns to federal government’s being on hook for actions of province
  Aug 28, 2010
• Profiling the arbitrators selected in Maersk v. Algeria, Urbaser v. Argentina, and Gold Reserve v. Venezuela
  Mar 18, 2010
• Tribunal selected to hear German investor’s claim against Czech Republic
  Jan 17, 2010
• Poland liable for breach of Germany-Poland BIT; Arbitrators grappling with damages in UNCITRAL proceeding
  Jun 29, 2009
• ICSID claim against Czech Republic dismissed; investor restructured with sole intent to internationalize dispute
  Apr 17, 2009
• Patrick Mitchell v. Democratic Republic of Congo award is annulled at ICSID
  Nov 01, 2006