Dominique Hascher - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Dominique Hascher

• Analysis: ICSID committee declines to annul high-stakes Conoco v. Venezuela award, finding no merit in competing governments’ criticisms of tribunal’s constitution, jurisdictional findings, or rulings on lawfulness and valuation date for expropriation
  Feb 11, 2025
• Breaking: ICSID ad hoc committee declines to annul 8+ billion USD Conoco v. Venezuela award
  Jan 22, 2025
• Three are in place to hear investor’s bid to annul ICSID award in construction dispute with Kuwait
  Jun 08, 2023
• ICSID committee dismisses requests for reconsideration of previous decisions on stay of enforcement and on Venezuela’s representation
  Feb 17, 2023
• ICSID Chair dismisses bid to disqualify ad hoc committee members in Conoco v. Venezuela case, following recommendation by Ian Binnie
  Sep 28, 2022
• Venezuela files yet another adjudicator challenge in long-running oil and gas dispute
  Jun 22, 2022
• Hascher-chaired annulment committee issues decision in fertilizer dispute with Venezuela
  May 26, 2022
• Arbitrators comings and goings: a new committee, a resignation, and a reconstituted tribunal
  Mar 23, 2022
• ICSID committee lifts stay of enforcement in high-stakes Conoco v. Venezuela dispute, finding that the investors have provided adequate guarantees against risk of non-recoupment
  Oct 04, 2021
• Eiser claimants lodge resubmission proceedings in long-running renewables dispute with Spain
  Aug 02, 2021
• Investors withdraw bid to revise Eiser v. Spain annulment decision, but hint at resubmission proceedings
  Jun 07, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee members dismiss disqualification proposal in Eiser v. Spain post-annulment battle
  Apr 28, 2021
• French Cour de cassation resurrects USD 1.6 billion award against Venezuela
  Apr 01, 2021
• Ad hoc committee in ConocoPhillips v. Venezula lifts stay of enforcement, but asks for guarantees against risk of non-recoupment in light of US sanctions; request to reconsider representation decision is dismissed
  Nov 03, 2020
• Eiser claimants challenge chair of ICSID ad hoc committee tasked with deciding their request for a supplementary decision
  Sep 01, 2020
• [Updated with new document] Investors seek supplementary decision from Eiser v. Spain ad hoc committee
  Aug 01, 2020
• ICSID declines disqualification proposal arising out of “Solomonic solution” to the problem of Venezuela’s representation
  Jul 28, 2020
• Analysis: Eiser v. Spain annulment committee stresses its role as guardian of the ICSID system, imposes a “high” bar for double hatting, and finds that numerous undisclosed past and present connections between an arbitrator and the claimants’ quantum experts warrants annulment of the underlying award
  Jun 12, 2020
• Breaking: 128+ million EUR Spanish renewables award is annulled, as ad-hoc committee finds fault with arbitrator's undisclosed relationship to claimants' damages experts
  Jun 11, 2020
• Venezuela proposes disqualification of all three ICSID ad hoc committee members in long-running ConocoPhillips case
  Apr 19, 2020
• Dominique Hascher is tapped to chair Venezuela’s bid to annul +$8 billion (US) Conoco award
  Feb 04, 2020
• Spain round-up: an update on new rulings, imminent ones, and new cases
  Aug 08, 2019
• Analysis: in Exxon-Mobil vs. Argentina case, ad hoc committee saw an excess of powers by underlying tribunal, but not a manifest one; committee also picked a side in debate over scope for committees to review arbitrator DQ decisions
  Jun 05, 2019
• Another expensive setback for Argentina, as Exxon-Mobil finally prevails in long-running BIT arbitration over gas distribution and export business
  May 31, 2019
• Annulment committee in Mobil v. Argentina maintained stay on enforcement of award, in newly-released decision
  Mar 31, 2019
• ICSID annulment committee allows European Commission to intervene in an ECT case, but limits intervention to EC's complaint about earlier tribunal’s decision to oblige amicus curiae to make costs undertakings
  Mar 26, 2019
• Analysis: Churchill & Planet Mining v. Indonesia annulment committee finds that parties’ discovery obligations can be limited by domestic law on confidentiality, and that procedural orders are outside a committee’s mandate
  Mar 24, 2019
• Churchill and Planet Mining fail to overturn adverse ICSID award, and are left to bear costs in fight with Indonesia
  Mar 19, 2019
• Mobil v. Argentina liability ruling (Part 3 of 3): tribunal deems that Argentina cannot rely on necessity defence since it contributed to its economic crisis
  Feb 24, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Senior French Judge, Dominique Hascher, is picked to chair review of $400+ million investment award
  Oct 03, 2018
• Ad hoc committee in Indonesia case agrees to shield investor from an enforcement that might push it into bankruptcy – and declines to pierce veil to pursue shareholders – but stay requires some security
  Jun 24, 2018
• ICSID selects three panellists to hear Spain's bid to overturn unfavourable solar-dispute award
  Oct 24, 2017
• Asia round-up: China and Vietnam face new BIT claims - by Hela Schwarz GmbH and Trinh Vinh Binh respectively - as proceedings against Korea and Indonesia move forward
  Jun 22, 2017
• Unpacking the reasoning of the ad-hoc annulment committee in the Tza Yap Shum v Peru (narrow arbitration clause) case
  Apr 16, 2015
• ICSID committee weighs in on bid to annul China BIT award - just weeks after Singapore Court criticized jurisdictional reasoning in the case
  Feb 17, 2015
• On eve of annulment ruling in Chinese BIT case, Singapore High Court offers criticism of an ICSID ruling that had served as inspiration in UNCITRAL case
  Jan 20, 2015
• ICSID arbitrators named for UAB Energia v. Latvia and Georg Gavrilovic v. Croatia cases; replacements picked for Zimbabwe and Peru tribunals
  Jul 07, 2013
• Newly unearthed decision records reasons for rejection of bid to disqualify counsel in Fraport v. Philippines arbitration
  Apr 03, 2013
• ICSID Round-Up: Argentina bondholders tribunal reconstituted, Hungary tribunal picked, and two new annulment panels chosen
  Jan 31, 2012
• ANALYSIS: ICSID Committee rejects bid to annul award in Peruvian energy tax stabilization dispute
  Mar 31, 2011
• ICSID panel orders Georgia to post $100 Million financial security as condition for staying enforcement of arbitral award while review process plays out
  Nov 25, 2010
• Georgian authorities arrest foreign investor on eve of ICSID hearing and charge him with corruption; Israeli businessman and Greek partner release text of $90 Million arbitration verdict against Georgia
  Oct 15, 2010
• ICSID annulment committee declines to overturn arbitral award in favour of Ecuador
  Nov 13, 2009
• Tribunals appointed in Alapi v. Turkey, Mobil v. Canada, Caratube v. Kazakhstan, iZee v. Georgia, and Duke v. Peru (annulment)
  Mar 17, 2009