Alain Pellet - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Alain Pellet

• NAFTA legacy tribunal declines to grant provisional measures aimed at preventing Pemex subsidiary from calling on performance bond
  Feb 03, 2023
• ICSID tribunal declines request for disclosures regarding funder-affiliated claimant representative, considering absence of outside funding in the arbitration; non-appearance of legal expert at the hearing was justified
  Dec 10, 2022
• Co-arbitrators dismiss mid-hearing challenge against chair Inka Hanefeld; decision addresses failure to disclose involvement in Green Power arbitration and conduct at the hearing
  Sep 12, 2022
• Claimant challenges tribunal chair in electricity arbitration against Argentina
  Sep 09, 2022
• Looking Back: The ICJ’s Diallo judgments found that states could exercise diplomatic protection with respect to shareholders’ rights, but not on behalf of local companies controlled by their nationals – while observing that the role of diplomatic protection had “somewhat faded” in light of the growth of investor-state arbitration
  May 13, 2022
• Bulgaria energy pricing dispute concludes with an award
  Nov 19, 2021
• Three are in place to hear NAFTA legacy claim against Mexico
  Oct 24, 2021
• Analysis: Kaufmann-Kohler-chaired tribunal offers detailed review of FPS standard, finding that Madagascar failed to protect a garment factory from riots
  May 06, 2021
• OIC Round-Up: New developments in two cases involving Libya, and an under-the-radar arbitration involving Lebanon
  Mar 09, 2021
• Iran’s case against the United States at the ICJ is allowed to proceed, as judges dismiss abuse of process objection and leave “essential security” defence for the next stage
  Feb 04, 2021
• Respondent's preliminary objections in the Orazul v. Argentina renewable energy arbitration will not be bifurcated
  Jan 11, 2021
• Madagascar files for annulment of award in long-running garment dispute
  Aug 22, 2020
• OIC round up: An update on pending arbitration cases lodged under the OIC Investment Agreement
  Aug 11, 2020
• Three are named to hear renewables claim against Argentina
  Jun 11, 2020
• Breaking: ICSID tribunal rules against Madagascar in rebound arbitration after first award was set aside
  Apr 21, 2020
• Spain applies for annulment of RREEF award
  Apr 15, 2020
• In final RREEF v. Spain award, arbitrators award close to €60 million in compensation for failure to provide a reasonable rate of return
  Dec 17, 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
• In RREEF v. Spain, dissenting arbitrator Robert Volterra finds ECT breaches beyond mere failure to provide a reasonable rate of return, and criticizes majority’s support for tribunal-appointed damages expert
  Apr 08, 2019
• A new Spain ruling surfaces, revealing that tribunal majority sees a more limited legitimate expectation: to reasonable rate of return for energy investors, but not to broader regulatory stability
  Mar 17, 2019
• Three are named to review arbitral award that had rejected Luxembourgish company's claim to protection under Belgium & Luxembourg BIT
  Jan 12, 2018
• Kaufmann-Kohler to chair new BIT claim mounted by claimants that saw their earlier ICC award torn up by French courts
  Nov 02, 2017
• Investor seeks to annul jurisdictional decision that had thwarted its claims against Cameroon
  Nov 02, 2017
• Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID's leadership
  Sep 17, 2017
• A second Tercier-chaired tribunal declines jurisdiction over nominally-foreign investor, instead pursuing domestic law inquiry into investor’s real ‘seat’
  Jun 26, 2017
• ICSID tribunal majority lends support to ‘origin of capital’ approach and finds abuse of right in claim against Cameroon, while dissenter maintains more formal inquiry on nationality and investment
  Jun 26, 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
• Spain solar claims update: jurisdictional ruling comes down in an ICSID case, as a pair of awards loom - and two more ECT arbitrations get under way
  Jul 04, 2016
• Bulgaria round-up: As two tribunals are constituted to hear claims against the state, authorities lock down arbitral award in a third case
  Feb 23, 2016
• 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 investment proceedings against Cameroon, Panama, and Venezuela (Venoklim annulment)
  Oct 01, 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
• ICSID panelists in place in Courts v. Madagascar arbitration and Micula v. Romania (annulment) proceedings
  May 15, 2014