Andrea Giardina - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Andrea Giardina

• Japanese investor asks for rectification of Spanish renewables award
  Jan 11, 2023
• Analysis: Unpacking the reasons that led the Eurus v. Spain tribunal to award 106+ million USD to compensate for the claw-back component of Spain’s new regulatory regime
  Nov 21, 2022
• Spain is ordered to pay 106+ million EUR to Japanese wind farm investor
  Nov 16, 2022
• Analysis: Tribunal rules that Maduro government should continue to represent Venezuela in ICSID arbitration, invoking the status quo principle
  Sep 15, 2022
• Co-arbitrators dismiss Venezuela’s renewed attempt to disqualify Stephen Drymer from ICSID tribunal
  Nov 11, 2021
• A new chair is named to hear the quantum phase of the Eurus v. Spain ECT arbitration
  Oct 13, 2021
• Co-arbitrators dismiss Venezuela’s challenge to Stephen Drymer in ICSID arbitration
  Aug 25, 2021
• Analysis: Tribunal majority in Eurus v. Spain gives weight to EU law in assessing the claimant’s legitimate expectations
  Mar 29, 2021
• Tribunal in latest Spanish ECT award grants weight to EU state aid obligations and finds sole breach in claw-back measure
  Mar 24, 2021
• Arbitrators comings and goings: A new resubmission tribunal, a revision tribunal, and a new chair
  Aug 18, 2020
• Breaking: SCC tribunal finds no breach of Energy Charter Treaty by Italy, in latest award to decide renewables claims
  Mar 27, 2020
• Looking Back: In Lucchetti v. Peru, arbitrators declined jurisdiction ratione temporis, side-stepping Peru’s allegations of corruption; majority of ICSID ad hoc committee denied request for annulment
  Sep 19, 2019
• In ConocoPhillips’s second ICC arbitration against PdVSA, tribunal uses amiable compositeur powers to find that Venezuela should repay loan – but other contractual claims are dismissed
  Aug 09, 2019
• In second ICC arbitration against Venezuela’s PDVSA, ConocoPhillips is awarded only $54 million (US), including interest
  Aug 05, 2019
• Looking Back (3 of 3): Resubmission tribunal in Klockner v. Cameroon awards compensation to investor, and second ad hoc committee declines to annul award
  Mar 19, 2019
• In newly-uncovered award in Tomasz Czescik and Robert Aleksandrowicz v. Cyprus, Derains-chaired tribunal sees no expropriation arising from government's financial crisis response
  Dec 13, 2018
• Looking Back (2 of 4): Amco Asia v. Indonesia tribunal’s finding that investment license was unlawfully revoked is knocked down by annulment committee that saw “insufficiently pertinent” reasons
  Oct 14, 2018
• ConocoPhillips concludes settlement agreement with PdVSA regarding payment of recent $2 billion ICC Award
  Aug 20, 2018
• Cyprus disputes round-up: an update on efforts by investors to sue Cyprus over 2013 restructuring of key banks
  Jul 24, 2018
• Looking Back: early ICSID awards against Congo-Brazzaville in AGIP and Benvenuti & Bonfant cases touched on stabilization clauses, flouting of provisional measures, and questions of quantum
  May 18, 2018
• ANALYSIS: review of Conoco-PdVSA ICC award reveals why tribunal saw two measures in breach of contract – including income tax hike over which ICSID tribunal had declined jurisdiction
  Apr 30, 2018
• ANALYSIS: in new ICC award, tribunal uses ex-post data valuation, rejects demand for compound interest, and finds that availability of investment treaty arbitration should mitigate country risk
  Apr 30, 2018
• As ICSID process grinds on, ICC tribunal weighs in with ruling under contract and orders PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips $2 billion for breach of oil contracts
  Apr 25, 2018
• Looking Back: In Tradex v. Albania case, arbitrators saw jurisdiction under domestic investment law, but claimant fails to prove expropriation or attributability to the state
  Nov 13, 2017
• Italy claims: A trio of Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations emerge in Stockholm, a tribunal is appointed at ICSID, and some repeat-players are beginning to emerge
  Aug 24, 2017
• Cyprus prevails in first treaty-based claim relating to banking sector measures
  Feb 23, 2017
• Crawford and Collins are each tapped (again) to chair Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain
  May 04, 2016
• UPDATED: Conoco v. Venezuela ICSID case stalls again as chairman Kenneth Keith resigns, and appears in danger of being eclipsed by parallel ICC arbitration
  Mar 23, 2016
• Round-up of known claims under European Development Fund arbitration rules
  Aug 03, 2015
• Arbitrators reject Greek investor’s claims that Romanian tax enforcements and food safety inspections breached investment treaty; Romania must bear $4 Million of its legal costs
  Dec 15, 2011
• Arbitrators decline jurisdiction over Romania’s counter-claim against investor; Counter-claims popping up in other ICSID cases, particularly Ecuadorian oil disputes
  Dec 15, 2011
• Patrick Mitchell v. Democratic Republic of Congo award is annulled at ICSID
  Nov 01, 2006