Hugo Perezcano Diaz - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Hugo Perezcano Diaz

• Analysis: ICC tribunal enjoins investor from seeking determination of contractual claims in treaty proceedings; UNCITRAL tribunal reads injunction as allowing treaty arbitration to proceed
  Dec 20, 2022
• Treaty tribunal finds that its Kompetenz-Kompetenz power is unfettered by anti-arbitration injunction issued in parallel contract case
  Dec 19, 2022
• Tribunal declines request for disclosure of documents related to third-party funding arrangement
  Sep 12, 2022
• With experienced tribunal in place, Peru telecoms arbitration is ready to get under way
  Aug 01, 2022
• Three are in place to hear renewables claim against Romania
  Jul 08, 2022
• BIT tribunal declines Mozambique’s second request to suspend proceedings in light of parallel commercial arbitration
  Jul 01, 2022
• ICSID tribunal agrees to hear essential security defense raised for the first time in Colombia’s rejoinder, but dismisses request for declaration on possible future injunctive relief
  Apr 19, 2022
• Telecoms arbitration against Costa Rica is discontinued
  Mar 04, 2022
• ICSID tribunal declines request for amicus intervention from local lawyer who alleges that claimant's pleadings are causing damage to his professional reputation
  Dec 21, 2021
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines to stay treaty case against Mozambique pending the outcome of a parallel contract-based arbitration
  Dec 06, 2021
• Tribunal majority orders disclosure of documents related to criminal investigations, subject to a confidentiality arrangement; dissenter doubts the arbitrators’ ability to enforce this ruling
  Nov 18, 2021
• Central America Round-Up: A notice of dispute, a new tribunal, and other arbitration-related developments
  Jul 28, 2021
• Tribunal is constituted to hear treaty-based insurance dispute with Venezuela
  Jun 14, 2021
• An UNCITRAL tribunal is in place to hear insurance companies' claims under the Bolivia-Switzerland BIT
  Jun 09, 2021
• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Tribunal in previously-unseen award against Russia upheld jurisdiction over Crimea-related claims, and awarded over 1.3 billion USD in compensation
  Apr 13, 2021
• Crimea-related 1 billion USD award against Russia is set aside, as Paris court finds that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction
  Mar 30, 2021
• Bifurcation decision reveals Mozambique’s reliance on a parallel ICC arbitration to bar an UNCITRAL tribunal’s jurisdiction; preliminary objections are ultimately joined to the merits
  Jan 22, 2021
• Colombia sets out its position in treaty-based real estate dispute involving alleged extortion attempts by a former drug lord
  Dec 17, 2020
• Details of treaty-based claim against Mozambique surface, as Indian investor complains of frustrated rail and port construction project
  Nov 05, 2020
• Central and Southern Africa Round-up: an UNCITRAL claim against Mozambique, an ICC mining arbitration in the DRC, and trouble in Zambia
  Nov 02, 2020
• Analysis: In Vento Motorcycles v. Mexico, arbitrators reject claims based on denial of preferential NAFTA customs treatment, emphasizing the claimant’s unique business model
  Oct 09, 2020
• Vento v. Mexico award comes to light
  Oct 07, 2020
• In Seda v. Colombia, investors in hospitality and real estate projects set out their arguments under the Colombia-US TPA
  Jul 20, 2020
• Mexico prevails in NAFTA arbitration by motorcycles investor
  Jul 08, 2020
• US non-disputing party submission in Vento v. Mexico addresses minimum standard of treatment, non-discrimination, continuous nationality, time-bar, definition of investment and limitations on loss
  Jun 24, 2020
• ANALYSIS: In Lidercon v. Peru, tribunal finds that exclusivity of concession contract was not impervious to legislative changes, and rejects the claims on the merits
  Mar 11, 2020
• Peru defeats BIT claim by Spanish investor
  Mar 08, 2020
• Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
  Feb 28, 2020
• A tribunal is in place to hear dispute over failed Venezuelan tobacco venture
  Feb 20, 2020
• Peru round-up: tribunals revealed in two under-the-radar UNCITRAL arbitrations, as hearings loom in third case
  Oct 18, 2019
• Russia asks tribunal to revise earlier findings, citing new evidence that supposedly casts doubt on tribunal's jurisdiction (and thus its $1.3 billion award)
  Aug 22, 2019
• Mexico round-up: New threats of arbitration, new arbitrations, and developments in ongoing proceedings
  Jun 28, 2019
• In unusual twist, claimant-appointed arbitrator is disqualified from UNCITRAL BIT tribunal for acting as counsel for the respondent-state in unrelated cases
  Feb 03, 2019
• Newly-disclosed UNCITRAL award reveals reasons for termination of Exeteco v. Peru BIT case by Derains-chaired tribunal
  Jan 02, 2019
• Russian Federation is hit with $1.3 billion dollar UNCITRAL bilateral investment treaty award
  Nov 26, 2018
• Award rendered in investment treaty claim arising out of prison privatization reversal, dismissing Spanish claimant's case
  Oct 12, 2018
• In new ruling, arbitrators recognize binding nature of NAFTA Free Trade Commission Note of Interpretation on transparency - and see no basis for request for witness protection  
  May 02, 2018
• Rigo Sureda is tapped to chair NAFTA arbitration against Mexico, with former government lawyers as wing-arbitrators
  Jan 21, 2018
• Key documents related to Peruvian prison privatization BIT claim remain confidential
  Jul 05, 2017
• Bolivia: an update on three investment treaty arbitrations (Glencore, Abertis and Quiborax)
  May 12, 2017
• In jurisdiction ruling, arbitrators rule that Russia is obliged under BIT to protect Ukrainian investors in Crimea following annexation
  Mar 09, 2017
• In the first of a possible wave of BIT claims by Ukraine state-owned entities against Russia, an UNCITRAL tribunal is finalized
  Aug 14, 2016
• Spain update: more claims surface in Stockholm and at ICSID, and several new tribunals are finalized
  Mar 03, 2016
• As Abertis's claims against Bolivia go to hearing, Spanish investor lodges separate arbitration against Argentina
  Dec 21, 2015
• Bolivia Round-Up: Two cases settle; hearings loom in a third UNCITRAL arbitration, as former Mexican lawyer, Hugo Perezcano Diaz, is tapped as chair
  Nov 17, 2015
• UPDATED: ICSID tribunals constituted in gas, mining and electricity cases against Indonesia, Slovakia, Egypt and Peru
  Oct 22, 2012