Christopher Greenwood - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Christopher Greenwood

• Turkish investor challenges Rolf Knieper in Turkmenistan arbitration
  Aug 09, 2023
• Tribunal hearing construction arbitration against Turkmenistan is reconstituted
  Jul 28, 2023
• Analysis: Christopher Greenwood-chaired committee grants investor's request for partial annulment of Khudyan v. Armenia award, finding that tribunal manifestly exceeded its powers in wrongly holding that key assumption was “common ground” between the parties
  Jul 26, 2023
• ICSID ad hoc committee grants individual investor’s request for partial annulment of award that declined jurisdiction based on the claimant’s nationality
  Jul 23, 2023
• Revealed: ICSID tribunal hearing high-stakes renewables case rejects Spain’s second request for reconsideration of previous decision on intra-EU jurisdictional objection in light of recent case law
  Jun 28, 2023
• Analysis: ICC tribunal applies international law to pipeline agreements between Iraq and Turkey, finds that Turkey breached its obligation not to load oil in contravention of Iraq’s instruction, and upholds Turkey’s counterclaims
  Apr 13, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Multi-billion-dollar pipeline arbitration between Iraq and Turkey concludes with an award
  Mar 27, 2023
• ICSID tribunal disqualifies Norway’s quantum adviser from snow crab arbitration due to a conflict of interests, but refuses to take “drastic step” of removing counsel
  Mar 17, 2023
• Looking Back: ICSID tribunal in Azpetrol v. Azerbaijan decided that e-mail exchange qualified as binding settlement agreement, and dismissed the case after finding that there was no dispute left to be resolved
  Mar 06, 2023
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal in Alverley v. Romania denies jurisdiction based on abuse of process and failure to meet real seat requirement
  Oct 27, 2022
• Swiss and Austrian engineers pursuing heretofore-unpublicized investment treaty arbitration against Jordan
  Aug 03, 2022
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair Egypt investment arbitration
  Aug 03, 2022
• Analysis: UNCLOS tribunal accepts to hear Ukraine’s claim that Russia wrongly detained its vessels in the Black Sea, but emphasizes that it lacks jurisdiction over military activities
  Jul 12, 2022
• As Ukrainian parties file billion-dollar ECHR claims against Russia for recent war destructions and human rights violations, UNCLOS tribunal issues inter-state award regarding 2018 military stand-off in the Black Sea
  Jun 27, 2022
• Three are in place to hear agribusiness claim against Nicaragua
  Jun 03, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear investor’s bid to annul unfavourable ruling concerning his nationality
  Jun 02, 2022
• [Updated] Two ICSID arbitrations conclude with undisclosed awards
  Apr 19, 2022
• Uncovered: UNCITRAL tribunal finds that sale of investment two years prior to lodging the arbitration deprived claimant of investor status; reservation of right to bring treaty claim is deemed to be irrelevant
  Mar 22, 2022
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair construction arbitration against Turkmenistan
  Mar 21, 2022
• ICSID tribunal dismisses real estate claim against Romania
  Mar 17, 2022
• Czech Republic claims victory in UNCITRAL arbitration
  Mar 03, 2022
• ICSID tribunal upholds Norway’s second request for bifurcation of quantum issues
  Jan 05, 2022
• Analysis: German Supreme Court delves into the compatibility of intra-EU arbitration with EU law, as it concludes that appeal against anti-arbitration ruling is inadmissible
  Dec 17, 2021
• ICSID tribunal hearing claims by state-owned German banks against Spain declines to reconsider intra-EU decision in light of the CJEU’s Komstroy Decision
  Dec 13, 2021
• German Supreme Court upholds anti-arbitration ruling in Croatian intra-EU BIT case
  Dec 02, 2021
• Spain files for annulment of still-confidential ECT award
  Oct 26, 2021
• [Updated with new document] Iraq Round-Up: Iraq joins Mauritius Convention and New York Convention, an under-the-radar 26 billion USD dispute, and updates on other pending proceedings
  Oct 21, 2021
• Analysis: Ad hoc committee refuses to annul Glencore v. Colombia award, rejecting Colombia’s arguments based on illegality and corruption allegations; committee finds that procedural orders may be reviewed if they tainted the award
  Sep 28, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee declines bid for annulment of Glencore v. Colombia award, dismissing Colombia’s allegation that the tribunal unduly dismissed corruption allegations
  Sep 24, 2021
• Greenwood-chaired tribunal weighs in with Energy Charter Treaty award, and awards 40+ mil Euros
  Jun 24, 2021
• North Star v. Norway tribunal rejects request for bifurcation of quantum issues as premature
  Jun 18, 2021
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair agribusiness claim against Croatia – a few months after German courts declared a parallel UNCITRAL claim inadmissible due to its intra-EU nature
  May 04, 2021
• Revealed: Tribunal hearing Egyptian plane crash arbitration sees local litigation provision as mandatory, adding to conflicting case law regarding Turkey’s investment treaties
  May 03, 2021
• Revealed: Metrojet v. Egypt tribunal finds that activities of a charter airline do not qualify as an investment in the host state’s territory
  May 03, 2021
• Egypt defeats treaty-based plane crash arbitrations
  Mar 19, 2021
• Arbitrators Comings and Goings: One resignation and two reconstitutions
  Mar 18, 2021
• Now-public judgment reveals reasons why German courts upheld Croatia’s Achmea objection, and declared a treaty-based arbitration inadmissible
  Mar 01, 2021
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland reveals its nominees to ICSID’s panels, and two tribunals see arbitrator resignations
  Feb 09, 2021
• Tribunal’s ruling on redaction of request for arbitration reveals debate about “business confidential information”, and leads to disclosure of amount ($400 mil) behind Norway’s fisheries arbitration
  Jan 18, 2021
• Controlling shareholder of Turkish firm withdraws his BIT claim against Libya; proceedings are discontinued without prejudice
  Jan 12, 2021
• ICSID dismisses arbitrator challenge in Spanish renewables case; decision to hold virtual hearings does not warrant the tribunal’s disqualification
  Dec 17, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland seeks applicants for ICSID panels, the UK reveals its panel nominees, and Egypt arbitration sees new chair
  Nov 23, 2020
• As Norway’s first ICSID arbitration gets underway, arbitrators dismiss claimants’ unorthodox early bifurcation request, and set out approach to transparency
  Nov 03, 2020
• Three are in place to hear claims by scandal-engulfed multinational against Peru
  Oct 30, 2020
• [Updated] Details regarding first ICSID arbitration against Norway come to light
  Sep 08, 2020
• Spain files second challenge to all three tribunal members in high-stakes ECT arbitration
  Aug 14, 2020
• Libya round-up: New tribunals, a discontinuation, and further details about a number of investment arbitrations against the state
  Aug 11, 2020
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair first ICSID arbitration against Norway
  Aug 10, 2020
• ICSID tribunal allows claims by Slovenian electricity company against Bosnia and Herzegovina to proceed
  May 20, 2020
• Award which rejected claims over taxation measures withstands annulment bid at ICSID
  Apr 23, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: a new tribunal, two replacements, and a new ad hoc committee
  Apr 05, 2020
• Mobil and Canada reach settlement of treaty-based oil field development dispute
  Feb 05, 2020
• Looking Back: NAFTA tribunal declined to consolidate parallel investor claims against Mexico, citing confidentiality concerns between fiercely competitive claimants and limited risk of inconsistent decisions
  Jan 15, 2020
• Romania round-up: As state reportedly moves to pay controversial Micula award, we provide an update on developments in seven investment treaty-based arbitrations
  Dec 17, 2019
• Two cases are discontinued at ICSID - against Slovakia and Lithuania - after failures to pay advances on costs
  Nov 06, 2019
• Arbitrator disqualification developments: Spain fails to disqualify tribunal in renewables case; chair steps down after challenge in another Spain case; investor takes aim at ad hoc committee member
  Oct 09, 2019
• In new interim measures ruling, arbitrators decline to order state to drop pursuit of domestic extradition proceedings; tribunal presses claimants to reveal more about who lies behind them, but rejects security for costs request
  Sep 19, 2019
• Spain moves for disqualification of all three ICSID arbitrators hearing $1.76 billion renewable energy dispute with German state-owned entities
  Sep 09, 2019
• Analysis: Greenwood-chaired tribunal offers up decision dismissing intra-EU objection in high-stakes 1.76 billion dollar Energy Charter Treaty claim
  Jul 11, 2019
• Libya Round-up: new investment treaty claims, new rulings, and updates on arbitrator appointments
  May 23, 2019
• Tribunal is constituted to hear new intra-EU BIT claim against Romania, with Christopher Greenwood in the chair
  Mar 26, 2019
• Spain round-up: new decisions are rendered in renewables cases and yet another investor claim is filed
  Feb 26, 2019
• Christopher Greenwood tapped to chair Alcor arbitration under the Czech-Republic-UAE BIT
  Feb 03, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Arbitrators decide that principle of res judicata (and a seemingly unhelpful prior arbitral ruling) do not bar investor from making new claim for 20+ years of future damages
  Dec 30, 2018
• ICJ President reveals that ICJ judges will not participate in investor-state arbitration in the future
  Oct 27, 2018
• Christopher Greenwood tapped by co-arbitrators to chair UNCITRAL investment treaty arbitration
  Oct 10, 2018
• An update on eight investment arbitration claims against Canada
  Sep 20, 2018
• In-depth: Mobil v. Canada jurisdictional decision reveals NAFTA tribunal's reasoning on res judicata, continuing breach, and obligation to repeal infringing measures
  Aug 01, 2018
• Greenwood to head ad-hoc committee that will review rejection of Kuwaiti investor's claims against Jordan
  Jul 19, 2018
• Arbitrators affirm jurisdiction over Exxon-Mobil's new attempt to seek compensation under NAFTA investment chapter
  Jul 17, 2018
• Mobil v. Canada pleadings raise complex questions of res judicata, relations between NAFTA time-bar and continuing breach, and relevance of NAFTA non-disputing party submissions
  May 10, 2018
• Post-hearing briefs in Mobil v. Canada consider whether NAFTA states have obligations to perform NAFTA in good faith and to repeal infringing measures
  May 10, 2018
• Libya claims round-up: new developments under OIC treaty; Greenwood to chair a newly-filed ICC BIT case; two hearings loom in longer-running arbitrations
  May 07, 2018
• As sanctions bite on Russian oligarch, ICSID Ad-hoc Committee dismisses effort to overturn award in Montenegro case
  May 02, 2018
• Christopher Greenwood to chair Tanzania sugarcane claim
  Feb 25, 2018
• Three are named by ICSID to hear attempt to overturn EuroGas v. Slovakia award
  Jan 28, 2018
• Balkans round-up: New claims, new tribunals and new developments in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia
  May 24, 2017
• Looking Back: In Impregilo v Pakistan case, arbitrators needed to grapple with distinction between treaty/contract claims and scope of umbrella clause
  May 22, 2017
• International Court of Justice to have rare opportunity to weigh in on meaning of Fair and Equitable Treatment and other investment protections
  Mar 23, 2017
• Three are named to hear CEAC's attempt to annul award in favor of Montenegro
  Jan 02, 2017
• ANALYSIS: where do matters stand with respect to Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain?
  Sep 28, 2016
• Part two of our coverage of EDFI v. Argentina annulment ruling: Argentina's (unsuccessful) challenge to Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler
  Feb 09, 2016
• EDFI v. Argentina award is upheld, after ad-hoc committee weighes Argentina's allegation that arbitrator lacked impartiality due to his law firm's advising of Repsol in separate dispute
  Feb 07, 2016
• Updates on the Lone Pine v. Canada (fracking) and Mobil v. Canada (R&D requirements) NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitrations
  Dec 16, 2015
• Arbitrator disqualifications: Updates on challenges to Yves Fortier, Bernard Hanotiau and Teresa Cheng - and an early challenge to Brigitte Stern
  Dec 01, 2015
• Background: Argentina challenges ICSID annulment committee member in two cases, after belated non-disclosure of Freshfields connections
  Aug 28, 2015
• Tribunals constituted at ICSID in cases against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen
  Jul 22, 2015
• In hitherto unpublished ruling, Greenwood/Stern tribunal reject plea that intra-EU BIT was implicitly terminated under VCLT due to EU accession
  Apr 02, 2015
• Tribunal's full reasons - and EC's amicus brief - on intra-EU BIT compatibility issue finally come to light in EURAM v. Slovakia case
  Apr 02, 2015
• Arbitrators interpret BIT arbitration clause narrowly, and point to Australia as example of state not viewing investor-state arbitration as essential to investment protection
  Apr 02, 2015
• Full reasons emerge for tribunal's dismissal of BIT arbitration due to investor's prosecution of a parallel BIT claim in domestic court
  Apr 02, 2015
• In finally-released EMV v Czech Republic awards, arbitrators found jurisdiction under narrow arbitration clause, but found no expropriation of media investment
  Mar 27, 2015
• Annulment committee sets deadline for Argentina to pledge that it will comply with its enforcement obligations under Article 53 of ICSID Convention
  Aug 22, 2013
• ICSID Annulment Committee selected to hear Argentina’s bid to annul $200 million arbitral award in EDF electricity dispute
  Feb 14, 2013
• ANALYSIS: Lessons of the Greenwood/UNCLOS challenge for inter-state investment arbitration
  Jan 13, 2012