Mark Clodfelter - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Mark Clodfelter

• [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
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Czech Republic claims victory in UNCITRAL arbitration over video lottery terminals
  Jul 28, 2023
• US appeals court dismisses bid by trio of Chinese investors to resuscitate investment treaty award against Mongolia
  Aug 27, 2021
• Renewed settlement leads to discontinuation of $2+ billion Egyptian gas case
  Mar 14, 2021
• Egypt settles dispute over LNG plant, thus drawing line under $2+ billion Union Fenosa arbitration
  Feb 28, 2020
• $2+ billion Egypt award is cleared to be enforced, after ICSID ad hoc committee lifts stay of enforcement
  Jan 28, 2020
• Chinese investors fail to set aside adverse award in BIT case against Mongolia
  Jan 13, 2020
• Alpiq v. Romania: Ad-hoc committee is formed to hear annulment application, with Toby Landau tapped to chair
  Sep 19, 2019
• ICSID tribunal dismisses claim against Romania over electricity supply contracts
  Nov 15, 2018
• Union Fenosa v. Egypt: in now-surfaced award, tribunal dismisses necessity defence and sees no abuse in investor pursuit of multiple arbitrations
  Oct 22, 2018
• Analysis: tribunal fractures on whether corruption was at root of foreign investor's hiring of local agent who enjoyed “influence” over key government officials
  Oct 22, 2018
• ICSID tribunals hearing separate Egyptian gas cases adopt diverging holdings on attribution question and on BIT-compatibility of revocation of tax-free status
  Oct 22, 2018
• Tribunal of Veeder, Rowley and Clodfelter diverge with respect to key holdings in recent award
  Sep 13, 2018
• Arbitrators hold Egypt liable for more than $2 billion as a result of unfair treatment of gas plant investors
  Sep 03, 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
• In-depth: a first look inside the now-surfaced award in the case of China Heilongjiang v. Mongolia award; claimants now pursuing set-aside
  Oct 01, 2017
• Egypt round-up: a new investment treaty claim by Future Pipe International B.V. lands at ICSID, as at least seven other arbitrations moved forward
  Aug 27, 2017
• Mongolia prevails in long-running Chinese BIT arbitration, as arbitrators distinguish their reading of constricted jurisdiction clause from more generous readings in prior cases 
  Jul 07, 2017
• Effort to disqualify Klaus Sachs is rejected in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration (Alpiq v. Romania)
  Jun 05, 2017
• The Czech Republic: updates on fifteen investment treaty disputes
  May 24, 2016
• Panels finalized for three ICSID treaty-based arbitrations: Alpiq v. Romania, PT Ventures v. Cabo Verde and Ali Alyafei v. Jordan
  Sep 16, 2015
• Arbitrators finalized in three proceedings: Bear Creek v. Peru, Krederi v. Ukraine and Unión Fenosa Gas, S.A. v. Egypt
  Dec 10, 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
• Ad-hoc treaty claim by Chinese investors vs. Mongolia is back on track following long delays arising out of arbitrator withdrawal
  Mar 27, 2014
• Mongolia round-up: hearings loom in one investment arbitration, as another remains stalled due to arbitrator resignation
  Nov 01, 2013
• Chinese BIT case loses arbitrator on eve of hearings; government raised concern when chairman’s firm took up separate case with similar treaty question
  Jun 12, 2013
• UNCITRAL tribunal chaired by Christopher Greenwood declines to let claimant use MFN clause to detour around highly-restrictive arbitration clause
  Jan 17, 2013
• ANALYSIS: What arguments underlay recent push to remove Guido Tawil from Ecuador arbitration?
  Mar 28, 2012
• Tribunal chosen to hear ad-hoc arbitration by Chinese mining investors against Republic of Mongolia; Canadian firm rowing back from earlier threats of separate claim
  Nov 04, 2010