Charles Poncet - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Charles Poncet

• 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