Diego Fernandez Arroyo - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Diego Fernandez Arroyo

• 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