Hamid Gharavi - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Hamid Gharavi

• Analysis: ICSID tribunal dismisses Georgia’s expedited objections, identifying “novel, difficult and complex” legal issues as to its jurisdiction
  Mar 12, 2025
• ICSID tribunal rules on expedited objections in treaty dispute with Georgia
  Jan 22, 2025
• [Updated] Côte d’Ivoire’s state oil company obtains go-ahead to enforce award against Nigerian company’s assets in Florida
  Dec 20, 2024
• Three are in place to hear claims by football club investor against Belgium
  Oct 09, 2024
• Revealed: UNCITRAL tribunal in Ukrenergo v. Russia finds that dispute falls within territorial scope of Russia-Ukraine BIT and sees no cross-border requirement at time when investment was made, joining other preliminary objections to the merits
  Aug 21, 2024
• UNCITRAL tribunal in Ukrenergo v. Russia issues Award on Jurisdiction, rejecting several preliminary objections under the Russia-Ukraine BIT
  Aug 14, 2024
• Russian businessman lodges first known treaty arbitration against Luxembourg, alleging that EU sanctions amount to “witch-hunt” against wealthy Russian individuals and asking for upwards of 16 billion USD in damages
  Aug 13, 2024
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal in Al Ramahi v. Hungary finds no denial of justice in regular application of bankruptcy law by Hungarian courts; 8 billion EUR fine was “shockingly disproportionate”, but later corrected by domestic legal system
  May 16, 2024
• ICSID tribunal is constituted to hear claims under Georgia-USA BIT
  Mar 11, 2024
• Jan Paulsson is tapped to chair second port concession arbitration under Algeria-Switzerland BIT
  Jan 04, 2024
• ICSID tribunal dismisses claims and counterclaims in oil contract dispute with Senegal
  Nov 20, 2023
• Paris Court of Appeal declines request to set aside rectification decision in dispute involving Ivory Coast’s national oil company
  Apr 04, 2023
• Three are in place to hear waste management claim against the Dominican Republic
  Apr 12, 2022
• Western Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration-related developments involving Senegal, Angola, and Ghana
  Sep 20, 2021
• Revealed: Tribunal in ICC dispute involving Ivory Coast’s state-owned oil company granted provisional measures, upheld jurisdiction based on allegedly pathological clause, and accepted substantial request for correction
  Aug 04, 2021
• Western Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration-related developments involving Ghana, Congo, Benin, and Ivory Coast
  Jul 30, 2021
• Western Africa Round-Up: A $70 million loss for Ghana, Angola is set to ratify the ICSID Convention, a new ICC tribunal in a dispute involving Ivory Coast, and a mining mediation with the Central African Republic
  Jul 03, 2021
• [Updated with Award] ICSID tribunal dismisses denial of justice claim in hotel dispute with Hungary
  Apr 20, 2021
• Central and Southern Africa Round-up: an UNCITRAL claim against Mozambique, an ICC mining arbitration in the DRC, and trouble in Zambia
  Nov 02, 2020
• West Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration disputes in the region
  Aug 27, 2020
• Azerbaijan facing a pair of unrelated ad-hoc BIT claims, one by Iranian and another by American
  Apr 12, 2019
• Laurent Levy tapped to chair arbitration arising out of African oil block dispute
  Jan 25, 2019
• Rwandan State-owned company initiates contract-based ICSID arbitration over gas extraction and electricity generation project in Rwanda’s Lake Kivu
  Jan 18, 2019
• Tribunals constituted for arbitration claims against Hungary and Ivory Coast - with Binnie and Fathallah in chairs
  Jun 07, 2018
• In newly-surfaced ruling, MFN can't be used to bypass fork-in-the-road, and latter clause defeats most of investor's claims against Egypt
  Dec 28, 2016
• ICSID tribunal rejects bid to use WTO agreement as gateway to investment treaty arbitration
  Aug 07, 2016
• Investor's unusual bid to use WTO agreement as gateway to arbitration, as well as Senegal's corruption allegations come to light in ICSID provisional measures phase
  Dec 14, 2015
• Senegal arbitration kicks off, as arbitrators are finalized
  Sep 23, 2015
• ANALYSIS: Existence of investment, attribution and proportionality likely to feature in Iranian claimants’ newly-filed arbitration against Korea
  Sep 20, 2015
• Burundi oil supplies dispute has a tribunal in place
  Jul 03, 2015
• Tribunal is named to hear Turkish investors' attempt to put Kazakh judiciary in the dock
  Jul 03, 2015
• Korea round-up: Lone Star case reaches hearings, as at least two other investment treaty claims loom
  May 18, 2015
• Majority ruling clears Albania of BIT and Energy Charter Treaty breaches in relation to Mamidoil fuel port claim
  Mar 31, 2015
• Romania must pay U.S. investor, Hassan Awdi, for $7.7+ million in sunk costs, but bulk of claims fail in bitterly-contested ICSID fight
  Mar 09, 2015
• Awdi v. Romania case hinges on a contract promise by privatization agency and on handling of restitution of land to former pre-Communist era owners
  Mar 09, 2015
• As final award looms in Awdi v. Romania, a decision surfaces wherein arbitrators refused to summarily dismiss certain "illegality" objections raised by Romania
  Feb 16, 2015
• Kazakhstan faces arbitration from Turkish investors alleging judicially-rigged confiscation of their energy assets
  Feb 12, 2015
• Two wins for states at ICSID, as Egypt prevails over H&H Enterprises and Poland defeats claims by Robert Lewis and David Minnotte
  May 19, 2014
• Investor claim against France shifts into gear, as parties look for lawyers and arbitrators begin to be chosen
  Feb 14, 2014
• In latest ICSID ruling, arbitrators dismiss Albania gambling dispute on jurisdictional grounds
  May 30, 2013
• Albania fends off one claim - by Sky Petroleum - but now faces an investment treaty arbitration by Czech company CEZ
  May 17, 2013
• Arbitrators find Moldova breached one treaty protection, but give government time to try restitution in order to lower $2.8 million damages bill
  Apr 11, 2013
• In Moldova case, arbitrators reject denial of justice and expropriation claims, but see no exhaustion of remedies requirement for latter
  Apr 11, 2013
• French investor, Franck Charles Arif, wins on fair and equitable treatment aspect of ICSID arbitration against Moldova, but loses moral damages claim
  Apr 11, 2013
• Oxus says that UNCITRAL tribunal has recognized its standing to arbitrate with Uzbekistan
  Nov 14, 2012
• Oil company seeks annulment of (now-public) ICSID award in billion dollar claim against Kazakhstan
  Oct 12, 2012
• Arbitrators in Egyptian resort arbitration examine veil-piercing, doctrine of prescription, and whether host state's actions served to waive approval requirements
  Jun 07, 2012
• Miner secures funding for expropriation claim against Uzbekistan; at least three types of funding seen in cases to date
  Mar 04, 2012
• Payment Round-Up: New reporting on ICSID award debts of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Bangladesh
  Dec 31, 2011
• Togo fails to overturn ICSID arbitral award; damages owed to French electricity investors amount to 12% of state revenue
  Sep 15, 2011
• Battle over reversed public tender to play out in investment treaty arbitration and before European human rights court
  Sep 07, 2011
• Majority sets out its damages analysis of U.S. investor’s claim against Ukraine arising out of thwarted radio broadcasting investments
  Mar 30, 2011
• Panels finalized in ICSID claims against Peru and Romania, and in Jordan annulment proceeding
  Feb 01, 2011
• Turkey prevails in Uzan-related $19 Billion arbitration claim; Dutch national unable to prove legal ownership of disputed telecoms firm
  Jul 19, 2010
• Deadline lapses without payment by Kazakhstan on BIT award
  May 07, 2010
• ICSID Committee declines to annul large damages award in Rumeli & Telsim v. Kazakhstan case
  Mar 25, 2010
• Democratic Republic of Congo sued for breach of domestic investment law by Antoine Abou Lahoud and Leila Bounafeh-Abou Lahoud
  Mar 18, 2010
• Arbitrators selected in Egypt and Venezuela cases; new claims against Peru and Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan
  Feb 09, 2010
• Arbitrators selected in Egypt and Venezuela cases; new claims against Peru and Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan
  Feb 09, 2010
• Ukraine in breach of bilateral investment treaty; US radio sector investor suffers unfair treatment
  Jan 27, 2010
• ICSID arbitrator Jan Paulsson rejects treaty claims of Pantechniki arising in aftermath of upheaval in Albania
  Aug 06, 2009
• Telsim and Rumeli, invoke MFN clause; Kazakhstan breach fair & equitable treatment and expropriation clauses
  Aug 07, 2008
• Kazakhstan to pay $125 Million, plus sizable interest for breach of treaty in dispute with Turkish telecoms firms
  Aug 07, 2008