Ibrahim Fadlallah - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Ibrahim Fadlallah

• 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
• Egypt reportedly prevails in treaty arbitration
  Nov 15, 2021
• Paris Court of Appeal upholds award in favour of Yemen’s oil and gas company, seeing no ground to set the award aside based on allegations that damages paid may reach terrorist organizations
  Oct 11, 2021
• Revealed: Tribunal majority in under-the-radar Odebrecht v. Libya arbitration decided to retract a consent award after finding it tainted by corruption
  Dec 07, 2020
• Looking Back: Tribunal in Salini v. Morocco outlined objective definition of ‘investment’ under the ICSID Convention
  Nov 23, 2020
• Looking Back: In RFCC v. Morocco, tribunal adopts objective test for investment under the ICSID Convention; annulment committee declines to annul award over immaterial contradiction in reasoning
  Apr 21, 2019
• Tanzania faces new bilateral investment treaty arbitration
  Apr 17, 2019
• Cyprus prevails in another investment treaty arbitration, this time defeating claims under Lebanon BIT relating to controversial FBME bank
  Jan 29, 2019
• In newly-surfaced award, ICC tribunal rejects government's attempt to use UN Convention on Corruption - and non-public tendering of contract - to argue for illegality of investment
  Jun 17, 2018
• ANALYSIS: at jurisdiction phase, Libyan civil unrest justifies waiver of BIT's cooling off period, but does not excuse state's failure to post a share of costs; treaty provision should not be read as a "fork-in-road" clause that would bar later BIT claim
  Jun 04, 2018
• ANALYSIS: Libya found liable for expropriation (and other breaches) in Olin Holdings case even though formal taking never occurred; compensation under DCF valuation is discounted due to long-running civil war
  Jun 04, 2018
• Another BIT claim against Egypt proceeds along less-visible UNCITRAL pathway
  Nov 13, 2017
• Looking Back: in Wena Hotels v. Egypt case, tribunal rejected corruption allegations and found an expropriation even though hotels were later returned to investor
  Aug 08, 2017
• Libya disputes: more details emerge about constitution of arbitral tribunals hearing ad-hoc and ICC investment treaty claims
  May 01, 2017
• Croatia prevails in BIT claim brought by three Belgian nationals
  Nov 04, 2016
• Recap: recent U.S. court rulings in relation to investment treaty awards
  Jun 20, 2016
• OHADA court annuls €38 million "Getma" award against Guinea for arbitrators’ violations of rules on fees, prompting public response from arbitrators
  Jan 08, 2016
• Round-up of known claims under European Development Fund arbitration rules
  Aug 03, 2015
• Arbitrators finalized to hear ICC claim against Cyprus arising out of take-over of controversial bank
  Feb 04, 2015
• $48 million OHADA award against Republic of Guinea comes to light as investor seeks enforcement; parallel ICSID claim remains ongoing
  Sep 25, 2014
• Croatia Round-up: Arbitrators in place for Croatian real estate dispute; Gov't files UNCITRAL claim against Hungarian energy company
  Jan 21, 2014
• In latest ICSID ruling, arbitrators dismiss Albania gambling dispute on jurisdictional grounds
  May 30, 2013
• Romania faces new arbitrations at ICSID over steel plant, and at ICC in unrelated environmental dispute
  Sep 09, 2012
• ICSID Docket Round-Up: Four tribunals are announced in Peru, Venezuela, Albania and Romania cases; ICSID picks chairs in two cases following deadlock
  Dec 01, 2011
• Togo fails to overturn ICSID arbitral award; damages owed to French electricity investors amount to 12% of state revenue
  Sep 15, 2011
• Poland reaches settlement in one long running investment treaty arbitration, but a final award looms in another proceeding
  Aug 19, 2011
• In unpublished ICSID annulment decision upholding railway consortium victory over Republic of Gabon, committee discussed complex issues of nationality and control
  Nov 04, 2010
• Not for the first time, ICSID panelists split on whether a colleague should be recused; Chairman of ICSID Council rules that arbitrator shall stay in Gabon case
  Dec 21, 2009
• Gabon challenges arbitrator on basis of his chairing previous arbitration
  Sep 02, 2009
• Tribunals constituted in ICSID claims: PIP Sarl v. Gabon, Millicom International v. Senegal, and Karmer Marble v. Georgia
  Jun 29, 2009
• Vivendi secures massive award against bankrupt former partner; greater prospects for recovery loom in BIT claim v. Poland
  Feb 28, 2009