Charles Poncet - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Charles Poncet

• Czech state-owned energy company reports victory in gas supply arbitration against Russia’s Gazprom
  Feb 26, 2025
• Cement investors challenge all three arbitrators in ICSID dispute with Egypt
  Nov 26, 2024
• Analysis: Tribunal in Seda v. Colombia finds that state invoked essential security interests exception in good faith, precluding any finding of wrongfulness
  Aug 22, 2024
• Second Zeph v. Australia arbitration sees procedural developments, as parties seek coordination with parallel UNCITRAL arbitration
  Jul 30, 2024
• Twin arbitrations against Egypt conclude with awards, dismissing gas supply investors’ claims
  Jul 03, 2024
• ICSID tribunal applies essential security interests clause and dismisses real estate investors’ claim against Colombia
  Jun 28, 2024
• Revealed: ICC tribunal chaired by Cristián Conejero is hearing Czech CEZ’s claims against Gazprom Export, while respondent is asking Russian court for anti-arbitration injunction
  May 07, 2024
• Charles Poncet is disqualified from ICC tribunal hearing gas supply dispute
  Nov 30, 2023
• [Updated with a copy of the Decision] Analysis: ICSID tribunal in Adria Group v. Croatia rejects intra-EU objection in BIT case lodged after EU Member State Achmea Declarations, but before entry into force of EU Termination Treaty
  Nov 08, 2023
• ICSID tribunal dismisses intra-EU objection in billion-dollar treaty arbitration against Croatia
  Nov 03, 2023
• Charles Poncet survives disqualification request from Australia in treaty case
  Nov 03, 2023
• UK High Court finds that Russia is precluded from relitigating arbitration tribunal’s jurisdiction in support of immunity defence against enforcement
  Nov 01, 2023
• Analysis: In Air Canada v. Venezuela, ICSID tribunal upheld jurisdiction over treaty claims and awarded 20 million USD in damages for breach of legitimate expectations
  Oct 12, 2023
• Juliet Blanch is tapped to chair intra-EU ECT arbitration against Slovenia
  Sep 16, 2023
• Tribunals are revealed for billion-dollar mining arbitrations against Australia
  Sep 08, 2023
• ICSID tribunal hearing intra-EU ECT case declines to enjoin Germany from pursuing anti-arbitration declaration proceedings before local courts, but directs respondent not to lodge additional court actions that may interfere with ICSID’s exclusivity clause
  Aug 03, 2023
• Analysis: Tribunal majority in Trasta v. NOC (2) sides with the respondent, holding that Libya’s National Oil Corporation could validly force its partner to sell its shares in a local refinery; Charles Poncet dissents, opining that the majority breached the claimant’s due process rights
  Jul 07, 2023
• Revealed: ICSID tribunal hearing high-stakes renewables case rejects Spain’s second request for reconsideration of previous decision on intra-EU jurisdictional objection in light of recent case law
  Jun 28, 2023
• Analysis: Naftogaz tribunal majority finds that all investments fall within the temporal scope of the Ukraine-Russia BIT, and orders Russia to pay 4.2 billion USD on account of an expropriation of the claimant’s Crimean assets
  Jun 26, 2023
• Awards in Naftogaz v. Russia surface in the context of US enforcement proceedings, after tribunal agrees to correction of clerical errors
  Jun 23, 2023
• Uncovered: ICSID tribunal allows European Commission to submit amicus curiae brief in renewable energy dispute with Romania
  May 31, 2023
• Paris Court of Appeal declines to set aside ICC award in refinery dispute with Libya’s national oil company
  May 29, 2023
• Analysis: Split ICSID tribunal reviews allegations of illegality with respect to failed project for development of public park in Algiers; tribunal majority allows the claim to proceed and finds that the state failed to perform the contract in good faith, awarding 228.5 million USD to the investors
  May 18, 2023
• Algeria is ordered to pay 228.5 million USD to Emirati investor, as tribunal majority is unconvinced by allegations of illegality
  May 15, 2023
• Uncovered: UNCITRAL tribunal in Liberty v. Venezuela (2) finds that investor is entitled to pursue ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration, as neither ICSID Convention arbitration, nor arbitration under ICSID’s Additional Facility Rules is available under the Spain – Venezuela BIT
  May 09, 2023
• Analysis: Unchallenged arbitrators are unconvinced that decades-old criminal conviction that was overturned by Italy’s Supreme Court warrants Charles Poncet’s disqualification from renewable energy case
  Apr 28, 2023
• Co-arbitrators dismiss proposal to disqualify Charles Poncet from renewable energy arbitration
  Apr 24, 2023
• Naftogaz is awarded 5 billion USD in Crimea-related BIT arbitration against Russia
  Apr 13, 2023
• Analysis: ICSID tribunal dismisses Albania’s revision request as “manifestly without merit”, finding that investors’ criminal conviction by local courts does not render allegations of illegality a newly discovered “fact”
  Apr 05, 2023
• NAFTA tribunal emphasizes that interference with domestic criminal proceedings requires exceptional circumstances, but sets out modalities for accessing witness in prison
  Apr 03, 2023
• [Updated] ICC tribunal hearing dispute with state-owned Iranian oil company faces multiple arbitrator challenges and withdrawal of counsel prior to hearing
  Mar 29, 2023
• ICSID tribunal (partially) grants European Commission’s request to intervene in intra-EU arbitration against Germany
  Feb 06, 2023
• Analysis: Considerations of nationality play key role in UNCITRAL tribunal’s decision to decline jurisdiction over alleged investors in Mexican hotel ventures
  Jan 04, 2023
• ICC tribunal hearing arbitration against Gabon examines conditions for rendering consent award, and finds that COVID-19 pandemic does not amount to force majeure
  Dec 21, 2022
• Analysis: Reasons for dismissal of Albania’s challenge against Charles Poncet surface; co-arbitrators grapple with “questions of first impression” arising from partial reconstitution of original tribunal in the context of ICSID revision proceedings
  Dec 08, 2022
• Co-arbitrators dismiss challenge to Charles Poncet in Hydro v. Albania revision proceedings
  Dec 02, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over claims by investors in Mexican eco-tourism projects
  Nov 23, 2022
• Italy challenges claimants’ appointee in ECT renewables arbitration
  Oct 21, 2022
• Revision tribunal is constituted in Hydro et al. v. Albania – and the state promptly challenges the claimants’ appointee
  Oct 19, 2022
• Tribunal declines request for disclosure of documents related to third-party funding arrangement
  Sep 12, 2022
• Analysis: Unpacking the Rockhopper v. Italy award, including tribunal’s reasons for finding that denial of hydrocarbons concession amounted to an unlawful expropriation, and for awarding 190 million EUR to claimants
  Sep 01, 2022
• [Updated] Breaking: UK oil and gas company announces 190+ million EUR award in ECT arbitration against Italy
  Aug 24, 2022
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair Egypt investment arbitration
  Aug 03, 2022
• ICSID tribunal declines to suspend arbitration proceedings pending appeal regarding intra-EU question before German courts, and splits on bifurcation request
  Jun 15, 2022
• Revealed: Berlin court dismisses Germany’s request for anti-arbitration declaration directed at ICSID case
  May 24, 2022
• One ICSID case against Albania concludes, while another one is reopened
  May 09, 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
• [Updated] Mexican taximeter arbitrations are consolidated after claimants settle partnership dispute
  Mar 11, 2022
• ICC case against Libya’s oil company concludes with an award; parallel treaty case remains ongoing
  Mar 03, 2022
• Analysis: Poncet-chaired tribunal holds that agreement signed in contravention of EU weapons embargo is contrary to international public policy, but nonetheless orders Guinea to pay 5 million USD
  Feb 04, 2022
• Analysis: Rule 41(5) decision surfaces in German ECT wind power arbitration, revealing that ICSID tribunal found that neither the intra-EU nature of the dispute, nor the German nationality of some of the claimants warranted an early dismissal of the case
  Jan 31, 2022
• Offshore wind power arbitration against Germany proceeds to the next stage
  Jan 20, 2022
• Analysis: Hydro v. Albania tribunal upheld jurisdiction over multiparty claim, found that Albania had expropriated a media venture through a politically-motivated campaign, and awarded 100 million EUR in damages
  Dec 30, 2021
• Another ECT tribunal dismisses request for reconsideration of intra-EU objection in light of the CJEU’s Komstroy Judgment
  Dec 22, 2021
• 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
• ICSID tribunal hearing claims by state-owned German banks against Spain declines to reconsider intra-EU decision in light of the CJEU’s Komstroy Decision
  Dec 13, 2021
• Three are in place to hear one of two parallel treaty claims against Venezuela
  Nov 19, 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
• Western Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration-related developments involving the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Ghana and Mali
  Nov 11, 2021
• Tribunal in Air Canada v. Venezuela finds FET and free transfer violations, but awards only a fraction of the damages claimed
  Sep 15, 2021
• Wendy Miles is tapped to chair offshore wind arbitration against Germany
  Sep 15, 2021
• Revealed: the reasons why ICSID did not follow ICC in disqualifying arbitrator Klaus Sachs
  Aug 06, 2021
• Klaus Sachs survives challenge in ICSID proceedings, on the heels of his disqualification from parallel ICC case
  Jul 16, 2021
• Looking Back: On jurisdiction, tribunals hearing trifecta of Yukos cases deemed the ECT provisionally applicable in its entirety despite Russia’s lack of ratification
  May 21, 2021
• Christopher Greenwood is tapped to chair agribusiness claim against Croatia – a few months after German courts declared a parallel UNCITRAL claim inadmissible due to its intra-EU nature
  May 04, 2021
• Maxi Scherer is tapped to chair wind power arbitration against Romania
  Apr 02, 2021
• Arbitrators Comings and Goings: One resignation and two reconstitutions
  Mar 18, 2021
• US-based miner files for partial annulment of ICSID award
  Mar 18, 2021
• Investor in deep-sea port project lodges arbitrator challenge
  Mar 09, 2021
• Bernard Hanotiau is tapped to chair Georgian port arbitration
  Feb 23, 2021
• Investigation: Equatorial Guinea loses ICC arbitration due to failure to comply with earlier settlement agreement in investment dispute
  Feb 15, 2021
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland reveals its nominees to ICSID’s panels, and two tribunals see arbitrator resignations
  Feb 09, 2021
• Familiar faces are tapped to hear taximeter arbitration against Mexico
  Jan 28, 2021
• Easing of Qatar-Saudi Arabia tensions could affect treaty-based arbitrations
  Jan 14, 2021
• ICSID dismisses arbitrator challenge in Spanish renewables case; decision to hold virtual hearings does not warrant the tribunal’s disqualification
  Dec 17, 2020
• Colombia sets out its position in treaty-based real estate dispute involving alleged extortion attempts by a former drug lord
  Dec 17, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland seeks applicants for ICSID panels, the UK reveals its panel nominees, and Egypt arbitration sees new chair
  Nov 23, 2020
• Analysis: Arbitrators in Dominion Minerals v. Panama unanimously dismiss denial of benefits related to shareholder's dual nationality, but disagree on merits and damages
  Nov 16, 2020
• Tribunal majority in Panamanian mining dispute finds treaty breaches, but awards only sunk costs to US investor
  Nov 09, 2020
• Three are in place to hear claims by scandal-engulfed multinational against Peru
  Oct 30, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Three replacements and one resignation
  Oct 22, 2020
• Three are in place to hear OIC Investment Treaty arbitration taking place in shadow of Saudi-Qatari diplomatic dispute
  Oct 20, 2020
• Sastre v. Mexico tribunal orders bifurcation of the proceedings after finding that Mexico’s jurisdictional objections, including objections to alleged “self-consolidation” and dual nationality, are prima facie serious
  Sep 23, 2020
• Gas sales arbitration against Egypt is discontinued at ICSID
  Sep 16, 2020
• Spain files second challenge to all three tribunal members in high-stakes ECT arbitration
  Aug 14, 2020
• In Seda v. Colombia, investors in hospitality and real estate projects set out their arguments under the Colombia-US TPA
  Jul 20, 2020
• Egypt round-up: a settlement agreement, a new tribunal, and an update on 11 other arbitration claims against the state
  Jun 17, 2020
• Co-arbitrators reject challenge to Brigitte Stern in Egyptian gas dispute
  Jun 05, 2020
• Three are in place to hear second arbitration arising out of Egyptian gas pipeline dispute
  Apr 20, 2020
• An UNCITRAL tribunal is in place to hear dispute over failed Mexican hotel ventures
  Mar 13, 2020
• Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
  Feb 28, 2020
• ANALYSIS: a closer look at the reasons why the Hague Court of Appeal dismissed all of Russia’s challenges to $50bn+ Yukos awards
  Feb 19, 2020
• After tribunal is constituted to hear Egypt claim, investors lodge a challenge to Brigitte Stern
  Dec 12, 2019
• Panama round-up: an update on developments in six treaty-based arbitration proceedings
  Dec 05, 2019
• Revealed: In heretofore-confidential award in Societe des Mines de Loulo S.A. (Somilo) v. Mali, tribunal found breach of contractual tax stabilisation clause
  Nov 13, 2019
• Arbitrator disqualification developments: Spain fails to disqualify tribunal in renewables case; chair steps down after challenge in another Spain case; investor takes aim at ad hoc committee member
  Oct 09, 2019
• Spain moves for disqualification of all three ICSID arbitrators hearing $1.76 billion renewable energy dispute with German state-owned entities
  Sep 09, 2019
• Albania has yet to release adverse Hydro S.r.l. ICSID award, but makes good on threat to seek annulment
  Aug 29, 2019
• Panama round-up: an update on five pending investment treaty arbitrations against the state
  Aug 15, 2019
• Analysis: Greenwood-chaired tribunal offers up decision dismissing intra-EU objection in high-stakes 1.76 billion dollar Energy Charter Treaty claim
  Jul 11, 2019
• ANALYSIS: ECT tribunal of Reichert, Poncet and Dupuy weighs in with decision, rejecting Italy's efforts to derail Rockhopper v. Italy arbitration due to Achmea and intra-EU objections
  Jun 28, 2019
• Amidst local reports of large loss, parties resist disclosing outcome of ICSID arbitration in Hydro & Becchetti v. Albania case
  May 21, 2019
• In new BIT ruling, Russia found liable for expropriation of Naftogaz assets
  Mar 01, 2019
• Spain round-up: new decisions are rendered in renewables cases and yet another investor claim is filed
  Feb 26, 2019
• Klaus Sachs chosen by ICSID to chair new investment treaty arbitration against Algeria
  Feb 21, 2019
• Tribunals are finalized to hear a pair of arbitration claims against Gambia
  Mar 27, 2018
• As Hydro v. Albania BIT case plays out at ICSID, Albania announces victory in related ICC contract case; claimant says it has filed a second ICC claim for expropriation
  Jan 26, 2018
• North Africa round-up: new developments in investment treaty cases in Libya, Algeria and Tunisia
  Dec 13, 2017
• Pierre Tercier selected to chair Air Canada v. Venezuela ICSID arbitration
  Sep 28, 2017
• Klaus Reichert tapped to chair off-shore oil and gas ECT arbitration, Rockhopper v. Italy
  Sep 26, 2017
• Italy claims: A trio of Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations emerge in Stockholm, a tribunal is appointed at ICSID, and some repeat-players are beginning to emerge
  Aug 24, 2017
• Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie is tapped to chair latest Russia BIT arbitration
  Jul 20, 2017
• Alfredo Bullard to chair latest BIT arbitration against Panama
  Jul 06, 2017
• UPDATED: Against backdrop of threatened BIT arbitration, Paris Court of Appeal confirms release of Russian space agency assets that had been frozen by Yukos claimants
  Jun 27, 2017
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators revoke an interim measures decision, but continue to offer little explanation for how "procedural integrity" of arbitration was in peril
  Oct 18, 2016
• Arbitrators weigh in with ruling in Malian gold mine tax dispute
  Jun 09, 2016
• Dutch court sets aside US$50 billion Yukos award, criticising tribunal for accepting provisional application of Energy Charter Treaty to Russia
  Apr 20, 2016
• Tribunals selected in Albania and Kosovo arbitrations at ICSID
  Dec 07, 2015
• Battling $50 billion Yukos awards on two fronts, Russia focuses on claimants’ alleged fraud and linguistic analysis of tribunal assistant’s alleged role in drafting awards
  Nov 03, 2015
• In-Depth: Reviewing Russia’s arguments for setting aside $50 billion Yukos awards
  Mar 05, 2015
• JURISDICTION: arbitrators say tax exemption not self-judging, and referral by Yukos to local authorities would be futile; legality duty on investors proves toothless due to identity-change
  Jul 31, 2014
• LIABILITY: in Yukos arbitration, tribunal dwells on disproportionate nature of measures, and sees no need to look at FET claim
  Jul 31, 2014
• DAMAGES: In Yukos arbitration, ECT tribunal rejected DCF valuation, and opts for "comparable companies" method
  Jul 31, 2014
• Russia ordered to pay US$50 bil to former Yukos majority shareholders; as in Oxy case, Fortier-chaired tribunal reduces damages due to investor's misbehaviour
  Jul 28, 2014
• Despite Khodorkovsky release, majority owners of Yukos have no plans to drop $113 billion arbitration claim against Russian Federation as a final ruling looms
  Dec 24, 2013
• Russia held liable for expropriation of Yukos shareholdings in case brought by minority Spanish shareholders (but funded by majority owner)
  Jul 26, 2012
• ICC award in African investment dispute is set aside due to concerns over arbitrator impartiality
  Mar 28, 2012
• Russian Federation seeks to overturn jurisdictional award in Yukos shareholder claim; merits phase continues
  Jan 22, 2009