Doug Jones - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Doug Jones

• Latest award in investor dispute against Laos emerges, revealing decision by Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler-chaired tribunal to find (most) claims barred under collateral estoppel
  Aug 08, 2022
• Investigation: As Yemen’s oil sector crumbles due to armed conflict, numerous arbitrations by Chinese, Indian and Western investors have quietly played out
  Aug 03, 2022
• One ICSID case against Albania concludes, while another one is reopened
  May 09, 2022
• ICSID arbitration against Venezuela is discontinued
  Dec 06, 2021
• TECO v. Guatemala resubmission annulment committee accepts evidence that was not submitted in the underlying arbitration
  Oct 11, 2021
• Southern and Eastern Africa Round-Up: A tribunal is revealed, an award against Rwanda, a dispute involving Kenya’s road authority, and claimants seeking to settle
  Sep 30, 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
• Revealed: ICSID ad hoc committee grants the investors’ request for a continued stay of the Albaniabeg award, citing Albania’s failure to comply with a related investor-state decision
  Aug 31, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee hearing latest chapter of TECO v. Guatemala saga orders continuation of stay of enforcement
  May 25, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee is named to hear cross annulment requests in mining dispute
  Apr 16, 2021
• An ICSID annulment committee is in place to hear Guatemala’s bid to annul resubmission award in long-running electricity arbitration
  Apr 01, 2021
• Analysis: Tribunal in FREIF v. Spain relies on the claimant’s own due diligence to determine that the investor could not legitimately expect a fixed return
  Mar 16, 2021
• SCC tribunal unanimously dismisses renewables claim against Spain
  Mar 09, 2021
• India is facing treaty-based arbitration claims by Mauritian airport investor, with a tribunal already in place
  Nov 05, 2020
• Three are in place to hear claimants’ bid to annul Albaniabeg v. Albania award
  Oct 16, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: a new tribunal, two replacements, and a new ad hoc committee
  Apr 05, 2020
• Hungary fails to annul award in favour of French investor at ICSID
  Mar 11, 2020
• Spain succeeds in disqualifying arbitrator Kaj Hober in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration
  Jan 14, 2020
• Revealed: In newly-unearthed ICC award, corruption defence fails and Zimbabwean state miner is ordered to pay $45 million (US) over two failed mining ventures
  Jan 13, 2020
• Venezuela round-up: ICSID ad hoc committee rejects annulment bid in Highbury case, a new chair is named for Saint Patrick case, and another annulment proceeding is discontinued
  Sep 11, 2019
• Three are named by ICSID to hear Hungary's effort to annul intra-EU BIT award
  Apr 17, 2019
• An update on under-the-radar arbitral rulings that address Achmea objection
  Jan 13, 2019
• ICSID committee declines to annul Suez v. Argentina (Case 03/17) award, but frowns on ICSID's arbitrator challenge process and copy-paste approach used by arbitrators across several awards
  Dec 17, 2018
• Analysis: In a striking new award, ICSID tribunal rules that Achmea judgment does not cast shadow over ICSID-based arbitration; but efforts to empanel ad-hoc committees to review such intra-EU BIT awards keeps getting harder
  Oct 11, 2018
• Tribunals are finalized to hear a pair of arbitration claims against Gambia
  Mar 27, 2018
• As another Spain award looms, four more previously-confidential renewables cases surface; potential liability for all pending claims now exceeds $9.5 billion
  Feb 07, 2018
• In-depth: in a newly-surfaced Waterville Holdings Limited vs. Ghana award, Michael Moser-chaired tribunal defers to Ghanaian judicial determination that an investor's contract was constitutionally invalid
  Oct 12, 2017
• Laos casino dispute lurches back to life, as arbitrators find that they have jurisdiction to determine if settlement was breached
  Jan 05, 2015
• Venezuela’s failure to produce documents leads to inference that they may be unhelpful to Gov’t, but majority can’t conclude that ambiguous law offers consent to international arbitration
  Nov 20, 2013
• Venezuela says oil arbitration lodged via 1999 investment statute has been dismissed on jurisdictional grounds; dissenting opinion also rendered
  May 30, 2013
• Effort to disqualify arbitrator in Venezuelan oil nationalization case is unsuccessful; adjudicators acknowledge that multiple arbitral appointments can be a concern
  May 19, 2011
• ICSID will hear challenges to two Venezuela arbitrators simultaneously; meanwhile another Venezuela dispute is suspended as arbitrator is challenged
  Feb 01, 2011
• Tribunals picked in Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Venezuela disputes
  Jan 13, 2011