Makhdoom Ali Khan - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Makhdoom Ali Khan

• Jan Paulsson is tapped to chair ICSID tribunal hearing energy dispute with Tanzania
  Jan 07, 2025
• ICSID tribunal hearing treaty dispute featuring allegations of forgery and wrongful criminal proceeding clarifies and complements earlier provisional measures and document production order, but declines to find non-compliance by the state
  Oct 14, 2024
• Analysis: Tribunal hearing treaty dispute with Qatar stemming from criminal conviction of FIFA World Cup consultant declines to hear ratione materiae and illegality objections in bifurcated proceeding
  Sep 12, 2024
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal orders Qatar to submit undertakings aimed at safeguarding claimant from criminal proceedings, while declining to adopt further provisional measures; arbitrators partially grant request for disclosure of third-party funding information under 2022 ICSID Rules
  Mar 21, 2024
• ICSID tribunal splits over document production, as chair opines that tribunal majority should have ordered production of personal documents seized by respondent
  Dec 11, 2023
• Analysis: Unpacking reasons why ad hoc committee hearing Bangladeshi gas delivery dispute split on tribunal’s alleged excess of powers, with majority members upholding decision that designation of state-entities can be implicit
  Oct 17, 2023
• Majority of ICSID ad hoc committee members uphold oil contract award against Bangladeshi state entities; dissenter would have found a manifest excess of powers
  Oct 13, 2023
• Arbitration under Switzerland-Tanzania BIT comes to light; tribunal is already in place
  Aug 11, 2023
• [Updated with document and analysis] ICSID tribunal decides that 2022 Arbitration Rules are applicable in case where notice of dispute was filed before July 2022, but request for arbitration was lodged after the new Rules' entry into force
  Mar 15, 2023
• Three are in place to hear French consultant’s treaty claim against Qatar
  Jan 27, 2023
• Croatia claims victory in under-the-radar treaty arbitration
  Nov 10, 2022
• James Hosking is tapped to chair waste management arbitration against Hungary
  Jun 08, 2022
• Award in billion-dollar gas dispute with Iran’s state-owned energy company surfaces, revealing a procedure burdened with numerous arbitrator challenges and resignations
  May 17, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear bid by Bangladeshi state-owned entities to annul contract-based gas award
  Mar 10, 2022
• Lawrence Boo is tapped to chair treaty claim against Uzbekistan
  Feb 15, 2022
• 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 allows applicants to submit new jurisdictional arguments at the annulment stage, and opens the way for a renewed review of the Schooner v. Poland award
  Dec 04, 2020
• Eiser claimants challenge chair of ICSID ad hoc committee tasked with deciding their request for a supplementary decision
  Sep 01, 2020
• Parties agree to discontinue first arbitration against Sudan at ICSID
  Aug 03, 2020
• [Updated with new document] Investors seek supplementary decision from Eiser v. Spain ad hoc committee
  Aug 01, 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
• Breaking: Blusun v. Italy award survives investors’ annulment request; committee sees no failure to consider key evidence on legitimate expectations
  Apr 14, 2020
• Breaking: Latvian heating supply award withstands annulment bid at ICSID
  Apr 10, 2020
• A tribunal is in place to hear dispute over failed Venezuelan tobacco venture
  Feb 20, 2020
• Three are named to hear Spain’s bid to annul €33 million Cube Infrastructure Fund award
  Dec 19, 2019
• Baltic Round-Up: An update on arbitration claims against Latvia and Lithuania
  Dec 09, 2019
• Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler tapped to chair UNCITRAL BIT arbitration
  Nov 28, 2019
• Analysis: In Besserglik v. Mozambique, arbitrators found insufficient evidence that the Mozambique-South Africa BIT ever entered into force
  Nov 19, 2019
• Spain files for annulment of Cube Infrastructure Fund award, while ad-hoc committee is reconstituted in Masdar v. Spain
  Nov 19, 2019
• Arbitrator updates: challenge to Gabriel Bottini is rejected; Hanotiau tapped to chair Serbia dispute; Rigo Sureda and Siqueiros step in as replacements
  Oct 30, 2019
• Mozambique prevails in two investment treaty arbitrations in a week
  Oct 30, 2019
• Arbitrator challenge and resignation round-up: Zachary Douglas, V.V. Veeder, Peter Rees, and Makhdoom Ali Khan
  Oct 22, 2019
• Spain round-up: an update on new rulings, imminent ones, and new cases
  Aug 08, 2019
• Spanish solar cases at ICSID: one award is challenged, and ad-hoc committee is formed to hear another previously-filed annulment application
  May 31, 2019
• Analysis: French Appeals Court refuses to set aside Ryan & Schooner v. Poland award, seeing no reason to overturn tribunal's reading of BIT's tax carve-out and its handling of FET & discrimination claims
  Apr 04, 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
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Poland investment treaty claims round-up: an update on new claims, progress of ongoing cases, and enforcement/set-aside actions
  Nov 16, 2018
• Baltic claims Round-Up: Simma chosen to chair UNCITRAL BIT case, EU Commission is permitted to weigh in with Achmea views in a case, and ad hoc committee has been selected to hear an annulment application
  Oct 09, 2018
• U.S. claimant Schooner Capital seeks set aside of award in favour of Poland
  Apr 25, 2018
• After claimant fails to prove its Jordanian nationality, one set of claims fall away in Sudan telecoms arbitration
  Nov 14, 2017
• Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID's leadership
  Sep 17, 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
• ICSID Arbitrators Khan and McLaren dismiss challenge to their colleague Zachary Douglas
  Jan 23, 2017
• Investors lodge challenge to Zachary Douglas in Champion Holding v. Egypt arbitration
  Nov 15, 2016
• Tribunals are finalized to hear claims against Italy and Egypt
  Oct 20, 2016
• In newly-released award, majority reads US treaty's tax exception provision as foreclosing FET claims; arbitrators consider overlap of jurisdiction with double taxation treaty
  Jul 26, 2016
• On merits, arbitrators disagree as to Poland's liability in relation to tax authorities' handling of tax audits and treatment of transfer pricing conduct
  Jul 26, 2016
• In-Depth: Turkmenistan fails in bid to have arbitral award annulled due to tribunal's alleged use of subjective "equitable principles" to decide certain issues
  Jan 27, 2016
• Poland claims round-up: at least a dozen investment treaty arbitrations
  Jul 29, 2015
• Southern Africa: updates on Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and Zimbabwe investment disputes
  Feb 04, 2015
• Award compliance: updates on two awards against Democratic Republic of Congo, and a third against Turkmenistan
  Jan 22, 2015
• Investor's duty to pass a portion of award-recovery to third-party funder is cited as a reason to not lift a stay of enforcement of that award
  Jan 22, 2015
• In-Depth: The Daimler v. Argentina annulment decision
  Jan 11, 2015
• Turkmenistan must post bank guarantee in order for stay of ICSID award to be kept in place during annulment phase
  Nov 26, 2014
• Central Asia Round-up: Updates on claims against Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
  Oct 15, 2014
• Arbitrators finalized for Dagher v. Sudan, African Petroleum v. Gambia, more Spain solar cases, and Rose Levy v. Peru annulment committee
  Aug 17, 2014
• Funder-backed claim falls short again: one arbitrator saw abuse, another saw no "contribution", and annulment committee declines to overturn
  Jul 15, 2014
• In new annulment ruling, ultimate vote is what matters in collegial adjudicative contexts - not how each arbitrator reasoned their way there
  Jul 15, 2014
• Poland update: government grappling with at least five treaty disputes; arbitrators rule on participation of counsel in ICSID case
  Aug 09, 2013
• Panelists confirmed for ICSID claim against Montenegro and Deutsche Bank v. Sri Lanka annulment
  Apr 23, 2013
• ICSID annulment notes: Sri Lanka seeks to overturn award in favour of Deutsche Bank; panelists named to hear Daimler’s challenge to Argentine verdict
  Mar 12, 2013
• Sri Lanka breached BIT due to Central Bank and Supreme Court actions; dissenter says highest court did not act in bad faith in financial derivatives dispute
  Feb 21, 2013
• On jurisdiction, arbitrators disagree whether a hedging agreement is an investment covered by bilateral investment treaty and ICSID Convention
  Feb 21, 2013
• On merits, tribunal splits on deference to be shown to Sri Lanka Supreme Court – and whether a debt is expropriated if contractual dispute forum is available
  Feb 21, 2013
• ICSID tribunal offers split verdict in $60 million Deutsche Bank v. Sri Lanka oil hedging controversy
  Nov 05, 2012
• ICSID Round-up: Arbitrators named in cases against Poland, Kazakhstan and Egypt; annulment committee picked in Ukraine case
  Oct 26, 2011
• Adjudicators diverge in concurrent claims over Sri Lankan oil hedge contract, as a third related claim at ICSID heads into hearings
  Aug 19, 2011