Stephen Drymer - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Stephen Drymer

• Treasure-filled galleon lands Colombia in treaty arbitration
  Sep 13, 2023
• Analysis: In Exxon v. Venezuela resubmission award, ICSID tribunal ponders res judicata effect of previous decisions, and finds that contractual limitation of liability mechanism would have been key in the valuation of damages owed on account of lawful expropriation
  Aug 02, 2023
• Analysis: Split ICSID tribunal reviews allegations of illegality with respect to failed project for development of public park in Algiers; tribunal majority allows the claim to proceed and finds that the state failed to perform the contract in good faith, awarding 228.5 million USD to the investors
  May 18, 2023
• Algeria is ordered to pay 228.5 million USD to Emirati investor, as tribunal majority is unconvinced by allegations of illegality
  May 15, 2023
• 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