Lucinda A. Low - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Lucinda A. Low

• Analysis: Ad hoc committee hearing snow crab dispute with Norway dismisses respondent’s request for security for costs; claimants’ petition for reapportionment of advances on costs is also rejected
  Jan 28, 2025
• ICSID committee hearing snow crab dispute with Norway grants claimants’ request for continued stay of award’s enforcement, conditional on commitment to pay if award stands; Norway is prohibited from receiving assistance from Wikborg Rein while committee examines conflict of interest concerns
  Dec 05, 2024
• 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 hearing airport dispute with Peru awards 91 million USD after ruling on outstanding damages issues; arbitrators grant tax gross-up
  Jul 04, 2024
• ICSID tribunal dismisses financial services claim against Panama
  Jun 05, 2024
• [Updated with Award] ICSID tribunal orders Peru to pay damages to airport investors
  May 10, 2024
• Banking claim against Honduras proceeds to next stage
  May 09, 2024
• Three are in place to hear investor’s bid to annul award that declined jurisdiction over snow crab claim against Norway
  Apr 09, 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
• Arbitrators comings and goings: A successful arbitrator challenge, a new tribunal, and a resignation
  Nov 01, 2023
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal finds that Peru’s attempted unilateral termination of airport concession violated the contract and the Argentina-Peru BIT, but sees no bad faith by the state; parties are directed to make additional submissions on implementation of costs-based quantum approach
  Oct 03, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Decision] Parties in airport arbitration against Peru issue diverging statements regarding ICSID tribunal’s Decision on jurisdiction, liability, and principles on quantum
  Aug 18, 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
• Balkan state is facing under-the-radar treaty arbitration, with a tribunal already in place
  Nov 01, 2022
• Revealed: In a case of first impression, an ICSID tribunal refers prudential measures defense to FTA-based Financial Services Committee, but declines to suspend arbitration proceedings
  Jul 28, 2021
• Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee delves into requirements for proving a failure to state reasons, ultimately dismissing Albania’s annulment bid
  Apr 07, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses Albania’s bid to overturn 110 million EUR award
  Apr 02, 2021
• Three are named to hear claims for expropriation of conglomerate
  Jan 14, 2021
• Ad hoc committee terminates stay of enforcement in Albania case
  Mar 26, 2020
• Swiss loans dispute proceeds to next stage
  Mar 25, 2020
• Balkans round-up: Slovenian and Macedonian cases are discontinued, Bulgaria case moves to the merits, and awards loom in a quartet of other cases in the region
  Feb 03, 2020
• In a new security for costs ruling, arbitrators reject state's request and stress that claimant's third party funding agreement provides for “at least some non-trivial cost coverage”
  Dec 13, 2019
• Panama round-up: an update on developments in six treaty-based arbitration proceedings
  Dec 05, 2019
• Three are named to review large award against Albania: Lucinda Low, Colm Hoisin and Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof
  Nov 06, 2019
• UPDATED WITH FULL ANALYSIS: Committee of Malintoppi, Low and Hafez uphold earlier tribunal's dismissal of Luxembourg investor's claim against Cameroon
  Oct 28, 2019
• Arbitrator Gaetan Verhoosel steps aside after challenge
  Jan 23, 2019
• Challenge is filed against Three Crowns attorney sitting on BIT tribunal
  Jan 16, 2019
• An update on under-the-radar arbitral rulings that address Achmea objection
  Jan 13, 2019
• Lucinda Low tapped to chair tribunal that will hear BIT claim over cancellation of concession
  Jan 04, 2019
• 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
• Looking Back: In Canadian Cattlemen v. USA "mad cow" disease dispute, arbitrators held that foreigners without cross-border investments do not have access to investor-State arbitration under NAFTA Chapter 11
  Jul 06, 2018
• Three are named to review arbitral award that had rejected Luxembourgish company's claim to protection under Belgium & Luxembourg BIT
  Jan 12, 2018
• John Townsend and Lucinda Low tapped to chair BIT arbitrations
  Oct 04, 2017
• Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID's leadership
  Sep 17, 2017
• Parties agree on Lucinda Low to chair BIT arbitration stemming from forced conversion of foreign-denominated mortgages into local currency
  Jun 14, 2017
• Siemens pleads guilty to breach of Foreign Corrupt-Practices Act; evidence of arbitration over illicit payments
  Dec 17, 2008