Franco Ferrari - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Franco Ferrari

• Analysis: NAFTA tribunal accepts Mexico’s bifurcation request based on objections relying on waiver requirement and extension of NAFTA’s substantive protections in legacy investment claim under USMCA
  Sep 19, 2024
• Analysis: ICC tribunal in Álya Construtora v. PdVSA applies estoppel doctrine to rule on contracts’ termination, but awards limited compensation due to lack of evidence
  May 06, 2024
• Gas compression plant award against Venezuela’s PdVSA surfaces, as claimant files for enforcement
  Apr 25, 2024
• Three are in place to hear billion-dollar NAFTA legacy claim against Mexico
  Oct 23, 2023
• Rare public-domain ICDR arbitration involving a state is discontinued; Kazakh case arose in aftermath of BTA Bank controversy
  Jul 28, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over dual-nationals’ claim against Colombia, finding that their Colombian nationality is dominant and effective
  May 10, 2021
• Imminent public hearings to be held in dual nationals’ case against Colombia
  Dec 11, 2020
• USA denies allegations of witness intimidation, and insists that former official’s views do not reflect US interpretation of treaty provisions
  Jun 24, 2020
• USA files non-disputing party submission in dual-nationals' case against Colombia
  Jun 05, 2020
• Saudi Arabia defeats Indian investor's BIT arbitration claim
  Feb 28, 2020
• Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
  Feb 28, 2020
• Diego Fernandez Arroyo tapped to chair new treaty-based UNCITRAL arbitration
  Jan 18, 2020
• Indian investor Khadamat Integrated Solutions Private Limited pursues BIT claim against Saudi Arabia; UNCITRAL tribunal in place
  Sep 24, 2019
• ANALYSIS: Dual US-Colombian nationals - the Carrizosa brothers - lay out their arguments on jurisdiction in ongoing Free Trade Agreement arbitration
  Jul 02, 2019
• Colombia reveals its jurisdictional objections in dispute brought by alleged dual nationals in relation to investments in local financial institution
  Feb 08, 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
• Arbitrator Zachary Douglas reverses course and resigns as ruling on disqualification loomed from PCA; parallel challenge in ICSID case is next battleground
  Aug 28, 2018
• Tribunals are finalized to hear a pair of arbitration claims against Gambia
  Mar 27, 2018
• Colombia faces two new investment treaty claims dating to late 1990s banking crisis
  Mar 12, 2018
• Investors lodge challenge to Zachary Douglas, alleging prejudgment of a core legal issue that arises in their investment treaty arbitration
  Mar 12, 2018
• UNCITRAL BIT tribunal awards all costs to Dominican Republic after Panamanian investor withdraws claims
  Apr 24, 2017
• Cremades-chaired UNCITRAL BIT tribunal to hear arguments that state is liable for failing to prevent illegal construction activity that impinged on foreign investment
  Dec 19, 2016
• Latvia round-up: one new arbitration at ICSID, and updates on five other Latvian investment treaty disputes
  Dec 06, 2016
• In new ruling, BIT tribunal in Valle Verde v. Venezuela holds that alleged right to future costs-recovery is not a right capable of grounding an interim "security for costs" request
  Sep 26, 2016
• In new ruling in Valle Verde v. Venezuela, BIT tribunal disavows interim measures power to order defaulting state to post its share of procedural costs
  Jan 28, 2016
• Baltic financial services sector figures in three otherwise unrelated treaty-based arbitrations, as well as fourth threatened case
  Jun 18, 2015