N. Fernando Pierola Castro - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT N. Fernando Pierola Castro

• Three are in place to hear treaty-based insurance dispute with Venezuela
  Jan 09, 2025
• ICSID ad hoc committee in place to hear bid to annul Sevilla Beheer v. Spain award
  Nov 10, 2023
• Three are in place to hear 400 million EUR ICSID claim against Morocco
  Jul 22, 2023
• Spanish construction company lodges 400 million EUR treaty claim against Morocco
  Jun 16, 2022
• Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee majority dismisses Spain’s annulment bid; dissenter sees lack of reasoning in treatment of counterfactual scenario for the assessment of damages
  Mar 22, 2022
• ICSID ad hoc committee majority rejects Spain's bid to annul SolEs Badajoz award; dissenter sees a failure to state reasons in the quantification of damages
  Mar 17, 2022
• Kuwait settles ICSID case; arbitration proceedings are discontinued
  Feb 14, 2022
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Two resignations and one appointment
  Dec 21, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee considers that sale of right to collect damages under Spanish renewables award indicates a real risk of non-recoupment, and decides to continue the stay of the underlying award
  Nov 30, 2021
• Relying on a bespoke test, a Zachary Douglas-chaired tribunal bifurcates Kuwait’s jurisdictional objections in Sumrain v. Kuwait
  Feb 02, 2021
• Masdar v. Spain case is discontinued
  Dec 01, 2020
• ICSID sees no pro-state bias by Zachary Douglas in Sumrain v. Kuwait; tribunal is reluctant to suspend proceedings due to COVID-19 in light of provisional measures request
  Oct 22, 2020
• ICSID tribunal declines request for joinder of third party
  Oct 16, 2020
• After identifying a “significant risk” of non-recoupment, ICSID ad hoc committee extends stay of enforcement of SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award
  Aug 27, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee declines to continue stay of enforcement of intra-EU Masdar v. Spain award, but orders the investor to pledge repayment of sums received in case of annulment
  May 26, 2020
• An ICSID ad hoc committee is in place to hear Spain’s bid to annul the SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award
  May 14, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: a new tribunal, two replacements, and a new ad hoc committee
  Apr 05, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: arbitrators resign from a trio of treaty-based cases
  Jan 20, 2020
• ICSID rejects bid to disqualify Veeder and Douglas in Kuwait arbitration
  Jan 06, 2020
• Spain files for annulment of Cube Infrastructure Fund award, while ad-hoc committee is reconstituted in Masdar v. Spain
  Nov 19, 2019
• Arbitrator challenge and resignation round-up: Zachary Douglas, V.V. Veeder, Peter Rees, and Makhdoom Ali Khan
  Oct 22, 2019
• Three are in place to hear claims brought by a group of Egyptian real estate investors against Kuwait, with Zachary Douglas tapped to chair
  Oct 06, 2019
• Egyptian real estate investors - Ayat Nizar Raja Sumrain and others - initiate ICSID arbitration against Kuwait
  Jul 11, 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
• Venezuela annulment decision finally surfaces, shedding light on reasons for upholding of Tenaris & Talta (2) award
  Apr 05, 2019
• Analysis: in a pair of recent decisions, ICSID committees disagree on conditions for continuing a stay of award enforcement; one committee deems conduct of state in a prior case to be in violation of ICSID Convention
  Jun 17, 2018
• In new award in second Tenaris case, arbitrators weigh in on the effects of Venezuela’s denunciation of ICSID Convention - and then find the state liable for BIT breach
  Feb 01, 2017
• Damages: in second case brought to ICSID by Tenaris and Talta, a discounted cashflow (DCF) valuation is embraced by arbitrators
  Feb 01, 2017