Cavinder Bull - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Cavinder Bull

• Revealed: Cavinder Bull is tapped to chair mining arbitration against Liberia
  Jan 23, 2025
• [Updated with Decisions] Revealed: In aviation dispute with Lebanon, ICSID ad hoc committee rejects investor’s annulment bid, upholding tribunal’s findings on quantum against contention that claimant should have been awarded higher amounts
  Dec 12, 2024
• Three are in place to hear individual investor’s bid to annul award that upheld South Korea’s illegality objection
  Nov 11, 2024
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal directs Germany to refrain from collecting windfall profits levy from refinery investor, finding provisional measures necessary to protect exclusivity of ICSID arbitration and status quo between the parties
  Sep 26, 2024
• Tribunals hearing trio of ECT cases against Denmark, Germany, and the European Union rule on coordination of proceedings and transparency; in Germany case, arbitrators decline respondent’s request for Klesch to waive confidentiality of tax documents
  Sep 17, 2024
• Revealed: Tribunal orders Germany to refrain from collecting solidarity contribution from refinery investor pending ICSID arbitration
  Aug 06, 2024
• Cavinder Bull tapped to hear claims against Belarus
  Jul 10, 2024
• [Updated] ICSID Chair and USA make appointments to ICSID’s Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators
  Jul 01, 2024
• Three are in place to hear renewable energy claim against Poland
  May 10, 2024
• [Updated] Belarus claims victory in hotel construction arbitration
  Dec 07, 2023
• Analysis: Tribunal in ICSID case against Tanzania sees no requirement that the investment must have been actively made, and finds that the state unlawfully expropriated retention licences held by foreign investors
  Aug 14, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Indiana Resources claims victory in Retention License dispute with Tanzania
  Jul 18, 2023
• Analysis: Tribunal in Marko Mihaljevic v. Croatia declines jurisdiction in view of ICSID Convention’s prohibition of claims by dual nationals against one of their home states; abuse of process is discussed in concurring opinion
  May 26, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Croatia claims victory in BIT arbitration over real estate dispute
  May 22, 2023
• Revealed: In Agility v. Iraq jurisdictional decision, part of Kuwaiti investor’s claims are dismissed for lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis; measures that gave rise to a dispute post-dating the BIT’s entry into force proceed to the merits
  Apr 20, 2023
• ICSID tribunal dismisses highway investors’ treaty claims against Kuwait
  Dec 30, 2022
• Analysis: Tennant v. Canada tribunal finds that claimant did not own or control investment at time of alleged breach, and did not suffer any loss or damages – thus failing to ground jurisdiction under NAFTA
  Dec 23, 2022
• Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee majority dismisses Spain’s annulment bid; dissenter sees lack of reasoning in treatment of counterfactual scenario for the assessment of damages
  Mar 22, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee majority rejects Spain's bid to annul SolEs Badajoz award; dissenter sees a failure to state reasons in the quantification of damages
  Mar 17, 2022
• Three are in place to hear Cambodia’s first known treaty arbitration
  Feb 04, 2022
• Imminent public hearings on jurisdiction to be held in wind energy NAFTA arbitration against Canada
  Nov 09, 2021
• Three are tapped to review award in Lebanese aviation dispute, as parallel OIC Treaty arbitration lurks in background
  Aug 06, 2021
• Analysis: Antin v. Spain committee finds that treatment of intra-EU jurisdictional objection does not warrant annulment; committee members also emphasize the tribunal’s discretion in the valuation of damages
  Aug 04, 2021
• 100+ million EUR Antin v. Spain award withstands annulment, shortly after the European Commission lodges investigation into the underlying award
  Aug 02, 2021
• Intra-EU award against Hungary withstands annulment bid
  Jul 19, 2021
• The US and Mexico chime in on limitation period for continuing breach and ownership requirement in NAFTA arbitration
  Jul 05, 2021
• [Updated] ICSID tribunal rules on Croatia’s ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) objection
  Jun 24, 2021
• Tennant v. Canada tribunal rules (again) on bifurcation; deadline for amicus curiae submissions is set
  Jun 23, 2021
• Claimant in wind energy dispute with Canada argues that it has standing, and that its claims are not time-barred
  Jun 16, 2021
• Revealed: ICSID ad hoc committee in Cortec v. Kenya opines that supplementary decision mechanism is the proper remedy for infra petita awards, and dismisses bid to annul finding that investment treaties contain an implicit legality requirement
  May 18, 2021
• Three are named to hear treaty-based claim against Belarus
  Apr 29, 2021
• Kenya defeats bid to annul mining award that read implicit legality requirement into the Kenya-UK BIT
  Mar 24, 2021
• Analysis: Unpacking the reasons why Kuwaiti telecoms investor Agility failed in its ICSID claim against Iraq
  Feb 26, 2021
• Three are in place to hear second mining claim against Tanzania
  Feb 25, 2021
• Iraq prevails in treaty-based telecoms arbitration
  Feb 23, 2021
• NAFTA tribunal acquiesces to Canada’s second bid to bifurcate Tennant Energy proceedings
  Dec 22, 2020
• Tennant v. Canada tribunal declines request to bar claimant from relying on allegedly confidential information from another NAFTA arbitration; Canada submits jurisdictional objections
  Nov 23, 2020
• After identifying a “significant risk” of non-recoupment, ICSID ad hoc committee extends stay of enforcement of SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award
  Aug 27, 2020
• Disclosure of third-party funding agreement prompts request for early document production in Tennant v. Canada – but the tribunal sees no special circumstances warranting a departure from the original procedure
  Jul 20, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: One newly-revealed tribunal in under-the-radar OIC Treaty case, and two tribunal reconstitutions
  Jul 05, 2020
• An ICSID ad hoc committee is in place to hear Spain’s bid to annul the SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award
  May 14, 2020
• In Tennant v. Canada, tribunal refuses to order interim measures and security for costs, but mandates third-party funding disclosure; bifurcation request is deemed premature
  Apr 05, 2020
• ICSID tribunal rejects request to revise award in light of the ECJ’s Achmea judgment
  Feb 26, 2020
• Conoco and Perenco settle BIT case against Vietnam
  Jan 22, 2020
• As NAFTA case against Canada goes to a first set of preliminary hearings, parties exchange pleadings on third-party funding, provisional measures, security for costs and bifurcation
  Jan 09, 2020
• Cavinder Bull tapped to chair Tanzanian power generation dispute
  Dec 12, 2019
• After Spain award is trimmed down by €11 million, annulment committee declines request to stay its enforcement
  Oct 31, 2019
• ICSID annulment committee orders continuation of stay of enforcement, subject to pledge of IP rights as security
  Sep 04, 2019
• Antin v. Spain: Three are named to ad-hoc committee that will decide fate of ICSID solar award
  Aug 20, 2019
• Arbitrators decide that EU's GDPR data protection regime does not apply to NAFTA Chapter 11 proceeding
  Aug 19, 2019
• Agility Public Warehousing Company's arbitration against Iraq continues, as ICSID tribunal issues jurisdictional decision
  Jul 11, 2019
• Kuwait investment arbitration round-up: new claims, new appointments, and updates on procedural status of older cases
  May 10, 2019
• ICSID taps former Freshfields partner to chair annulment committee that will review Kenyan arbitral award
  May 07, 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
• Ukraine round-up: Philip Morris BIT threat leads to settlement of dispute; an update on five other pending investment arbitrations
  Dec 05, 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
• In Karkey v. Pakistan, ad-hoc committee weighs into debate as to whether stays are exceptional, and if an attorney-general pledge has any weight
  Jun 24, 2018
• Hungary seeks to capitalize on EU Court of Justice ruling on intra-EU investment treaties
  Jun 12, 2018
• Vietnam faces unusual BIT arbitration, with seller and purchaser of assets teaming up to file a joint claim in face of country's threat to impose a capital gains tax
  Apr 03, 2018
• Tribunal finalized for Agility Public Warehousing Company K.S.C. v. Iraq bilateral investment treaty arbitration
  Dec 21, 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
• Three are named by ICSID to hear Pakistan's bid to overturn hefty $800+ million arbitration loss
  Dec 07, 2017
• Arbitrators decline provisional measures request in investor claim against Kuwait
  Dec 04, 2017
• Cavinder Bull chosen to chair Kuwait investment treaty arbitration
  Aug 14, 2017
• Arbitrators appointed in two claims (City-State N.V. and Gilward Investments) under Netherlands-Ukraine bilateral investment treaty
  Dec 14, 2015