Diego Fernandez Arroyo - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Diego Fernandez Arroyo

• Revealed: Arbitrators find that UNCITRAL arbitration is not available under Bolivia-Peru BIT, declining jurisdiction over cement investors’ claims
  Dec 04, 2023
• UNCITRAL tribunal rules that it lacks ratione voluntatis jurisdiction over BIT claim against Bolivia
  Nov 29, 2023
• Analysis: UNCITRAL tribunal finds that narrow environmental emergency does not fall under “national security interests” exception; takeover of landfill operation is found to breach MST and expropriation provision
  Oct 16, 2023
• [Updated with copies of the Award and Dissenting Opinion] Tribunal majority awards damages to Jamaican investor in waste management dispute with the Dominican Republic
  Oct 07, 2023
• Simandou iron ore mining saga comes to an end at ICSID, as BSG Resources fails to make payments to support its bid for annulment of award that dismissed the case based on findings of corruption and influence peddling
  May 22, 2023
• ICSID tribunal allows NGOs to intervene in hydropower dispute with Guatemala, but splits over scope of amicus submission; earlier bifurcation decision also comes to light
  Mar 27, 2023
• ICSID committee dismisses requests for reconsideration of previous decisions on stay of enforcement and on Venezuela’s representation
  Feb 17, 2023
• Three are in place to hear mining investors’ bid to annul findings of corruption
  Nov 07, 2022
• ICSID Chair dismisses bid to disqualify ad hoc committee members in Conoco v. Venezuela case, following recommendation by Ian Binnie
  Sep 28, 2022
• Foreign investors with long-standing dispute turn anew to arbitration against Venezuela – this time under ICSID’s Additional Facility Rules
  Jul 28, 2022
• Venezuela files yet another adjudicator challenge in long-running oil and gas dispute
  Jun 22, 2022
• Arbitrators comings and goings: a new committee, a resignation, and a reconstituted tribunal
  Mar 23, 2022
• Three are in place to hear renewable energy claim against Guatemala
  Mar 08, 2022
• Three are in place to hear under-the-radar treaty arbitration against Bolivia
  Oct 20, 2021
• In Mexican offshore oil dispute, Canada and the United States set out their views on claims by dual nationals, reflective losses, and state enterprises under NAFTA
  Oct 13, 2021
• Annulment decision in Tenaris and Talta v. Venezuela (1) surfaces, revealing why ad hoc committee upheld the tribunal’s reasoning on the claimants’ corporate seats, expropriation finding, and choice of a valuation method that had not been submitted by either party
  Oct 13, 2021
• ICSID committee lifts stay of enforcement in high-stakes Conoco v. Venezuela dispute, finding that the investors have provided adequate guarantees against risk of non-recoupment
  Oct 04, 2021
• Analysis: Non-retroactivity principle and treaty limitation period prompt ICSID tribunal to decline jurisdiction under the Colombia-USA TPA
  Apr 21, 2021
• Kaufmann-Kohler chaired tribunal dismisses claims based on TPA's financial services chapter; parallel UNCITRAL arbitration remains ongoing
  Apr 20, 2021
• Ad hoc committee in ConocoPhillips v. Venezula lifts stay of enforcement, but asks for guarantees against risk of non-recoupment in light of US sanctions; request to reconsider representation decision is dismissed
  Nov 03, 2020
• ICSID declines disqualification proposal arising out of “Solomonic solution” to the problem of Venezuela’s representation
  Jul 28, 2020
• Analysis: Tribunal in Lee-Chin v. Dominican Republic splits on interpretation of CARICOM-DR consent clause
  Jul 22, 2020
• Breaking: Majority arbitrators in Lee-Chin v. Dominican Republic find that CARICOM-DR treaty offers consent to investor-state arbitration; Marcelo Kohen disagrees
  Jul 16, 2020
• Venezuela proposes disqualification of all three ICSID ad hoc committee members in long-running ConocoPhillips case
  Apr 19, 2020
• Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
  Feb 28, 2020
• Dominique Hascher is tapped to chair Venezuela’s bid to annul +$8 billion (US) Conoco award
  Feb 04, 2020
• Diego Fernandez Arroyo tapped to chair new treaty-based UNCITRAL arbitration
  Jan 18, 2020
• NAFTA tribunal orders respondent to provide “concrete information” about the existence of any criminal investigations against the claimants’ counsel, Quinn Emanuel
  Jan 15, 2020
• Analysis: reasons revealed as to why an ad hoc committee has upheld restrictive reading of ICSID denunciation provisions; citing lack of stare decisis doctrine, committee sees no basis to annul award that diverged from others
  Nov 27, 2019
• ICSID ad hoc committee upholds 2017 award which had declined jurisdiction due to Venezuela’s denunciation of the ICSID Convention
  Nov 25, 2019
• Three are in place to hear Enagas dispute over Peruvian gas pipeline project
  Jul 21, 2019
• NAFTA tribunal majority rejects amicus curiae bid by bondholders; newly-released documents lay out allegations of bribery and illegal collusion in oil rig case
  Jul 19, 2019
• Mexico round-up: New threats of arbitration, new arbitrations, and developments in ongoing proceedings
  Jun 28, 2019
• US courts diverge from ICSID annulment committee on Venezuela's representation in international disputes
  May 23, 2019
• Arroyo-chaired tribunal grants bifurcation request in first DR-CARICOM arbitration
  Mar 07, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Arbitrator Zachary Douglas steps aside in face of threatened challenge, and tribunal is then finalized
  Dec 17, 2018