Loretta Malintoppi - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Loretta Malintoppi

• Analysis: Tribunal hearing contractual oil dispute with Albania finds breach of stabilisation clause, but decides that state validly terminated the agreements over material breach by the claimant
  Dec 01, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses Rule 41(5) objection to investor’s bid to partially annul mining award against Panama; request for stay of enforcement is granted
  Jul 21, 2022
• Annulment proceedings in geothermal power dispute with Kenya are discontinued
  Feb 24, 2022
• Counsel funding arbitration is ordered to provide written undertaking that it will pay hypothetical adverse costs award in treaty dispute; request for disclosure is rejected
  Feb 17, 2022
• Two treaty arbitrations arising out of the downfall of Mexico’s Oceanografía conclude, one with an award, while the other one is discontinued
  Jan 12, 2022
• Revealed: Tribunal in VEB v. Ukraine upholds jurisdiction over Russian state-owned claimant, but declines to import more favourable standards of treatment through the underlying treaty’s MFN clause
  Sep 22, 2021
• Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is tapped to chair ad hoc treaty claim against Algeria
  Aug 18, 2021
• Romania Round-Up: Two under-the-radar BIT tribunals, claimant in ICSID dispute decries UNESCO classification, and newly-uncovered ICC arbitrations
  Aug 04, 2021
• Maxi Scherer is tapped to chair another shipping terminal dispute
  Jun 17, 2021
• Three are in place to hear claimant’s partial annulment bid in Panama mining case
  May 26, 2021
• Three are named to hear treaty-based claim against Belarus
  Apr 29, 2021
• Three are named to hear investor’s annulment bid in geothermal power dispute
  Feb 26, 2021
• In Qatar v. UAE ICJ case, 11-6 majority finds that Convention against racial discrimination does not apply to differential treatment based on current nationality
  Feb 04, 2021
• Claim brought by Russia’s state-owned investment bank against Ukraine proceeds to the next stage
  Feb 02, 2021
• ICSID tribunal orders Spain to pay 22 million EUR (plus interest) in compensation for claw-back provision
  Jan 27, 2021
• Analysis: Blue Bank v. Venezuela ad hoc committee upholds finding that a trustee did not qualify as investor since it merely managed the trust’s assets
  Sep 11, 2020
• Revealed: UAB E energija v. Latvia annulment committee saw no manifest excess of powers or failure to state reasons
  Sep 02, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses bid to annul award which declined jurisdiction over trustee
  Jun 23, 2020
• Breaking: Latvian heating supply award withstands annulment bid at ICSID
  Apr 10, 2020
• An UNCITRAL tribunal is in place in first known arbitration under the EFTA-Korea FTA
  Mar 24, 2020
• Investor pursuing UNCITRAL BIT claim over Dominican sugar venture, and a tribunal is now in place
  Feb 14, 2020
• Baltic Round-Up: An update on arbitration claims against Latvia and Lithuania
  Dec 09, 2019
• Analysis: Majority of BayWa v. Spain tribunal finds that claimants only had expectations of a reasonable rate of return, but decides that claw-back provision violates the ECT; Horacio Grigera Naon sees broader ECT violations
  Dec 05, 2019
• Spain defeats Stadtwerke claim, with Hober dissenting, and secures dismissal of some claims in BayWa case, with Grigera-Naon dissenting; new renewable incentives scheme is adopted
  Dec 04, 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
• Tribunal in place to hear treaty-based arbitration against Algeria, with Loretta Malintoppi tapped to chair
  Oct 29, 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
• Tribunal constituted in Moti Ramot and Remi Levy v. Bulgaria arbitration
  Aug 13, 2019
• Analysis: In Albacora v. Ecuador award, arbitrators reject all claims, failing to see a “formal and unambiguous promise” on exemption from income tax
  Jul 26, 2019
• Ecuador prevails in Albacora investment treaty arbitration
  Jul 19, 2019
• After challenge by Canadian investor, Loretta Malintoppi resigns as chair of arbitral tribunal
  Feb 06, 2019
• An update on investment treaty claims filed against the Republic of Korea
  Jan 14, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Herbert Kronke tapped by ICSID SG to chair latest Spain tribunal
  Dec 10, 2018
• Investor seeks disqualification of Loretta Malintoppi in Gran Colombia v. Colombia FTA arbitration
  Nov 27, 2018
• Tribunal finalized to hear FTA arbitration arising out of controversial mine investment, with Loretta Malintoppi chosen to chair proceedings
  Nov 02, 2018
• Luca Radicati di Brozolo is tapped to chair treaty claim against Morocco
  Oct 29, 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
• Three are picked to hear Kazakhstan's effort to overturn arbitral award in Aktau Petrol case
  Mar 26, 2018
• Venezuela moves to annul a pair of recent arbitral awards: Saint-Gobain and Longreef
  Mar 15, 2018
• Three are named to review arbitral award that had rejected Luxembourgish company's claim to protection under Belgium & Luxembourg BIT
  Jan 12, 2018
• ICSID selects Castellanos Howell to preside over another Venezuela annulment process, even as country seeks to have him removed from panels reviewing unfavourable awards
  Jan 05, 2018
• Venezuela sees three final awards in a little over a week, as Dutch investor, Longreef Investments A.V.V., nets 50+ million dollars in latest BIT ruling
  Nov 08, 2017
• Ecuador Round-Up: As remaining bilateral investment treaties are terminated, new developments come to light in ICSID and UNCITRAL cases
  May 22, 2017
• Analysis: In new decision in Blue Bank v. Venezuela case, arbitrators scrutinize effects of ICSID denunciation on claim against Venezuela
  Apr 28, 2017
• ICSID renewables claims against Spain reach 23, along with some signs of repeat arbitrator appointments - but no common chairs as yet
  Nov 17, 2015
• Arbitrators finalized for Dagher v. Sudan, African Petroleum v. Gambia, more Spain solar cases, and Rose Levy v. Peru annulment committee
  Aug 17, 2014
• Challenges filed against Feliciano and Sands at ICSID; replacement arbitrators named in two other cases, after tribunal departures
  Jan 08, 2014
• New Books and Articles on Investment Treaty Law: May to December 2009
  Jan 16, 2010
• New Articles and Books on Investment Treaty Law: Dec 2008 to April 2009
  May 11, 2009