Stephen Drymer - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS
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RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Stephen Drymer
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Analysis: ICSID tribunal hearing claim brought by US hedge fund in Peruvian land reform bond dispute splits on abuse of process and existence of protected investment; tribunal deems domestic compensation process arbitrary – but awards only a fraction of the damages claimed
Jan 26, 2023 -
[Updated] Tribunal majority in Gramercy v. Peru upholds jurisdiction over billion-dollar land bond dispute, and awards damages to US-based hedge fund
Dec 13, 2022 -
Analysis: Tribunal rules that Maduro government should continue to represent Venezuela in ICSID arbitration, invoking the status quo principle
Sep 15, 2022 -
Three are in place to hear coal power plant dispute with Senegal
Aug 22, 2022 -
Investigation: As Yemen’s oil sector crumbles due to armed conflict, numerous arbitrations by Chinese, Indian and Western investors have quietly played out
Aug 03, 2022 -
Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair Egypt investment arbitration
Aug 03, 2022 -
[Updated with document] ICSID Chair dismisses Argentina’s argument that a series of events surrounding the organization of a hearing warrant the disqualification of the entire tribunal
Apr 18, 2022 -
Chair of ICSID’s Administrative Council dismisses challenge to entire tribunal in Argentinian electricity dispute
Apr 11, 2022 -
Arbitration dispute with Kosovo’s Privatization Agency concludes with an award
Apr 08, 2022 -
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is tapped to chair oil & gas arbitration against Slovakia
Jan 31, 2022 -
Co-arbitrators dismiss Venezuela’s renewed attempt to disqualify Stephen Drymer from ICSID tribunal
Nov 11, 2021 -
Argentina challenges all three tribunal members in long-running treaty arbitration
Nov 08, 2021 -
ICSID tribunal finds discrete ECT breach in intra-EU case against Croatia, but claimant is awarded no damages due to lack of causation
Oct 28, 2021 -
Venezuela lodges yet another challenge against Stephen Drymer, following the arbitrator’s disqualification and resignation in two other cases against the state
Oct 22, 2021 -
Paris Court of Appeal upholds jurisdictional award against Libya, finding that the underlying treaty entered into force, and that corruption allegations are a matter for the merits
Sep 30, 2021 -
Stephen Drymer resigns from ICSID AF arbitration, following his challenge by Venezuela in three treaty-based cases
Sep 23, 2021 -
Co-arbitrators dismiss Venezuela’s challenge to Stephen Drymer in ICSID arbitration
Aug 25, 2021 -
PCA Secretary-General upholds challenge to Stephen Drymer, finding possible asymmetry of information with his co-arbitrators given his participation in parallel ICSID AF arbitration
Jul 16, 2021 -
Venezuela challenges Stephen Drymer in two treaty-based arbitrations
Jul 14, 2021 -
Eduardo Zuleta is tapped to chair mining claim against Mongolia
Jul 09, 2021 -
Analysis: Rule 41(5) decision under China-South Korea BIT surfaces, revealing that the tribunal declined to dismiss composite and continuous breach claims as manifestly time-barred
Jul 05, 2021 -
[Updated] ICSID tribunal dismisses bulk of expedited objections under the China-South Korea BIT
Jun 21, 2021 -
Tribunal is constituted to hear treaty-based insurance dispute with Venezuela
Jun 14, 2021 -
Looking Back: Tribunal in AES v. Argentina pondered the role of arbitral precedent, set out a two-prong test for defining a “legal dispute”, and found contractual forum selection clauses irrelevant to a treaty-based dispute
Apr 28, 2021 -
Analysis: Tribunal sees no commitment by Colombia to help power distributor out of its financial woes; eventual liquidation is not an expropriation
Mar 16, 2021 -
[Updated with Award] Billion-dollar claim against Colombia is dismissed on the merits, but tribunal finds that it lacks jurisdiction over the state’s counterclaim
Mar 12, 2021 -
Tribunal finds that revision application is manifestly without legal merit under ICSID Rule 41(5)
Mar 11, 2021 -
UNCITRAL award in Pey Casado v. Chile saga surfaces, revealing that arbitrators declined jurisdiction after finding that the claimant had no investment
Feb 18, 2021 -
Three are in place to hear treaty-based claims against South Korea brought by an imprisoned Chinese investor
Feb 01, 2021 -
Arbitrators comings and goings: A new resubmission tribunal, a revision tribunal, and a new chair
Aug 18, 2020 -
Libya round-up: New tribunals, a discontinuation, and further details about a number of investment arbitrations against the state
Aug 11, 2020 -
OIC round up: An update on pending arbitration cases lodged under the OIC Investment Agreement
Aug 11, 2020 -
Spain applies for annulment of wind energy award, and asks for revision of solar award
Jul 31, 2020 -
Arbitrators comings and goings: two resignations and one newly-reconstituted tribunal
Jun 05, 2020 -
An ICSID tribunal is in place to hear claims in Saudi Arabian construction dispute
May 25, 2020 -
Three are in place to hear intra-EU claim against Croatia
May 15, 2020 -
In just-surfaced InfraRed v. Spain award, tribunal saw specific commitments by Spain not to revise the tariffs, premiums, and price limits applicable to the claimants’ CSP plants
Mar 30, 2020 -
Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
Feb 28, 2020 -
Three are in place to hear Spain’s bid to annul unfavourable Infrared solar award
Feb 25, 2020 -
Analysis: as hearings loom in Gramercy v. Peru, we analyze the parties' arguments in bitterly-fought arbitration over decades-old debts
Jan 13, 2020 -
UNCITRAL tribunal declined jurisdiction over Pey Casado's BIT case
Jan 10, 2020 -
Decade-old AES v. Argentina case shows new signs of life; revised tribunal features two new arbitrators, with Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez as chair
Dec 13, 2019 -
Fernandez-Armesto chaired tribunal hearing Gramercy v. Peru bondholder case reaffirms and clarifies its previous non-aggravation order
Aug 11, 2019 -
Spain round-up: an update on new rulings, imminent ones, and new cases
Aug 08, 2019 -
USA submits non-disputing party brief in Peruvian bondholder dispute, stressing importance of procedural requirements and rejecting concept of judicial expropriation
Jul 17, 2019 -
Analysis: Drymer-chaired tribunal unanimously rejects intra-EU objection and see control by minority shareholder, but arbitrators disagree on whether or not Estonia breached claimants’ legitimate expectations and right to due process in water dispute
Jul 12, 2019 -
Award (and dissent) from United Utilities v. Estonia arbitration are now available
Jul 09, 2019 -
Colombia round-up: Newly approved bilateral investment treaties, dispute settlement discussions, pleadings and decisions in ongoing arbitrations
Jul 08, 2019 -
Estonia escapes liability in Dutch bilateral investment treaty arbitration with United Utilities
Jun 22, 2019 -
Libya Round-up: new investment treaty claims, new rulings, and updates on arbitrator appointments
May 23, 2019 -
Klaus Sachs chosen by ICSID to chair new investment treaty arbitration against Algeria
Feb 21, 2019 -
Naturgy initiates UNCITRAL arbitration against political risk insurer
Nov 06, 2018 -
Tribunal orders bifurcation of Chile’s jurisdictional objections in Pey Casado UNCITRAL claim
Oct 10, 2018 -
Arbitrators order parties in Gramercy v Peru case to refrain from aggravation of dispute
Sep 04, 2018 -
An update on investor arbitration claims under the Organization for Islamic Cooperation investment treaty
Aug 15, 2018 -
Peru wants arbitrators to restrain U.S. hedge fund from certain publicity activities, but denies that it is seeking an interim measures order
Jul 26, 2018 -
Colombia round-up: new developments in treaty-based investment arbitrations
Jun 17, 2018 -
As ICSID award looms, claimant in water utility tariff dispute files a parallel claim with the European Court of Human Rights
May 17, 2018 -
Libya claims round-up: new developments under OIC treaty; Greenwood to chair a newly-filed ICC BIT case; two hearings loom in longer-running arbitrations
May 07, 2018 -
Hedge fund's bond claim against Peru moves into gear, as a chair is finally chosen for $1.6 billion arbitration
Mar 01, 2018 -
As series of Turkey-Libya BIT arbitrations proceed, tribunals are taking different approaches to Libya's contention that treaty's entry-into-force rules out civil war-related claims
Sep 25, 2017 -
Bernard Hanotiau tapped to chair latest iteration of Pey Casado v. Chile saga
Sep 20, 2017 -
Stay of enforcement of $370+ million award is lifted, as ICSID panel does not see clear promise by Ecuador to swiftly comply if award is not overturned, nor a compelling case of economic hardship
Sep 01, 2017 -
Pey Casado seeks to exit long-running ICSID case - one week after filing new claim under UNCITRAL rules - but must get Chile's blessing for discontinuation
Apr 24, 2017 -
As Libya begins to see wave of investment treaty arbitrations, at least seven Turkish BIT claims are pursued at ICC
Mar 31, 2017 -
Energy Charter Treaty claim against Croatia now has a full tribunal in place
Feb 23, 2017 -
Burlington tribunal confirms power to reconsider decisions, but rejects request on merits; earlier expropriation finding supplemented with further ruling on unlawfulness
Feb 13, 2017 -
Familiar disagreements on valuation date and ex post data arise in Burlington award, alongside new disagreement on contribution to losses
Feb 13, 2017 -
ANALYSIS: Successful counterclaim in Burlington v. Ecuador breaks new ground, as tribunal has to evaluate quantum of environmental damage
Feb 13, 2017 -
Ecuador ordered to pay $379 million for expropriation of US investor's oil blocks; state says it was awarded damages for environmental counterclaim, and plans annulment of final award
Feb 08, 2017 -
ICSID tribunal bars parties in Estonian water dispute from publicly releasing legal filings, but leaves door open to some general commenting on the case
May 16, 2016 -
ICSID renewables claims against Spain reach 23, along with some signs of repeat arbitrator appointments - but no common chairs as yet
Nov 17, 2015 -
Prospect of an intra-EU BIT objection by respondent-state is not enough to justify bifurcating jurisdictional phase of arbitration
Jul 03, 2015 -
Ecuador round-up: Key rulings loom in half-dozen cases, including windfall levy disputes, Occidental annulment, and several lesser-noticed arbitrations
Apr 10, 2015 -
European claims update: tribunals finalized in Estonia, Albania and Spain arbitrations
Mar 24, 2015 -
Arbitral tribunals constituted in three cases: EuroGas v. Slovakia, City-State v. Ukraine and InfraRed v. Spain
Jan 21, 2015 -
Arbitrators picked for Venezuela, Costa Rica and Kazakhstan cases, and replacement is named after disqualification in Burlington v. Ecuador
Jan 13, 2014