Christopher Greenwood - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Christopher Greenwood

• 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