Alvaro Rodrigo Castellanos Howell - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Alvaro Rodrigo Castellanos Howell

• Analysis: Cube v. Spain committee emphasizes limited scope for new arguments in annulment proceedings and dismisses the state’s annulment bid
  Apr 04, 2022
• Cube v. Spain award stands, as another ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses annulment bid by Spain
  Mar 29, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee conditionally lifts stay of enforcement of RWE v. Spain award
  Nov 26, 2021
• An ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear Spain’s bid to annul 28 million EUR renewables award
  May 30, 2021
• Another ICSID case involving Spanish renewables is discontinued following the adoption of Spain’s new incentives regime
  Feb 01, 2021
• Analysis: Blue Bank v. Venezuela ad hoc committee upholds finding that a trustee did not qualify as investor since it merely managed the trust’s assets
  Sep 11, 2020
• Reasons surface why Cube v. Spain committee declined the EC’s request to intervene as amicus curiae, and lifted the stay of enforcement of the award
  Jun 26, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses bid to annul award which declined jurisdiction over trustee
  Jun 23, 2020
• Familiar faces are tapped to hear investors’ bid to annul unfavourable award in Spanish renewables dispute
  May 14, 2020
• Three are named to hear Spain’s bid to annul €33 million Cube Infrastructure Fund award
  Dec 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
• Annulment committees weigh in with decisions on a pair of awards against Venezuela
  Apr 30, 2019
• Venezuela’s bid to annul $500 million award fails; committee finds that it can’t review alleged partiality of arbitrator
  Dec 17, 2018
• Disqualification decision surfaces in Blue Bank v. Venezuela, clarifying reasons why Castellanos Howell survived challenge; repeat appointments by ICSID raise no doubts over impartiality
  Mar 14, 2018
• UPDATED: Castellanos Howell survives two further attempts by Venezuela to remove him from ICSID ad-hoc commitee
  Mar 06, 2018
• Guatemalan lawyer survives disqualification attempt in ICSID case, as two more similar challenges remain pending
  Feb 20, 2018
• ANALYSIS: ad-hoc committee's reasoning surfaces, thus illuminating Venoklim's failure to annul award in Venezuela case
  Feb 08, 2018
• Venoklim fails in bid to annul arbitral award from first conflict, as parallel BIT claim remains pending
  Feb 05, 2018
• ICSID selects Castellanos Howell to preside over another Venezuela annulment process, even as country seeks to have him removed from panels reviewing unfavourable awards
  Jan 05, 2018
• Venezuela seeks to remove ad-hoc committee member, citing public comments about the country
  Dec 22, 2017
• ANALYSIS: unpacking the recent annulment decision in SAUR v. Argentina
  Dec 21, 2016
• Ad-hoc committee rejects Argentina's attempt to annul award in favour of water concession investor
  Dec 19, 2016
• ANALYSIS: as Venezuela's ICSID debts hits $4.6 billion (before interest), two ad hoc committees offer differing approaches to requests that stays of enforcement be lifted
  Apr 21, 2016
• In-depth: the full reasons for ad-hoc committee's dismissal of Argentine annulment bid in Total case - and for rejecting challenge to Teresa Cheng
  Feb 09, 2016
• Argentina fails in its bid to annul arbitral award in favour of Total S.A.
  Feb 01, 2016
• Arbitrators finalized for investment proceedings against Cameroon, Panama, and Venezuela (Venoklim annulment)
  Oct 01, 2015
• ICSID names six to hear two efforts by Venezuela to annul unfavourable arbitral awards
  Sep 16, 2015
• Breaking: committee members in Total v. Argentina case reject challenge to their colleague
  Aug 28, 2015
• Background: Argentina challenges ICSID annulment committee member in two cases, after belated non-disclosure of Freshfields connections
  Aug 28, 2015
• Honduras highway arbitration is settled by parties, prior to annulment decision
  Apr 22, 2015
• Argentina round-up: ICSID ad-hoc committee declines to annul 2012 award in Daimler case; three panelists chosen to hear challenge to SAUR award
  Jan 08, 2015
• ICSID Round-Up: New arbitrator in Pey v. Chile; new claim by Highbury and others vs Venezuela; and a bid to annul award in Rose Levy v. Peru
  May 21, 2014
• Amidst concerns about prompt payment of arbitral awards, stays of enforcement are lifted in two ICSID cases
  Apr 01, 2014
• Fast-track dismissal is possible in annulment context, but Honduras' challenge to ICSID award will continue, and with conditional stay
  Jan 12, 2014