Peter Rees - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Peter Rees

• ICSID arbitration against Zambia is discontinued, in light of broader settlement of multi-prong dispute between Canadian miner and the state
  Sep 08, 2023
• Analysis: In quantum award, Hydro v. Spain tribunal finds that costs incurred in mitigating damages should be compensated
  May 05, 2022
• [Updated] Tobacco case against Ukraine is discontinued after Philip Morris scores a victory before local courts
  Jan 31, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal is in place to hear billion-dollar mining claim against Poland
  Jun 11, 2021
• Western Africa Round-Up: A new arbitration claim against Senegal, a FIL-based threat against the DRC, and an update on various other arbitration-related developments
  May 03, 2021
• Daniel Bethlehem is tapped to chair tobacco claim against Ukraine
  Apr 28, 2021
• State-owned Rwandan entity launches UNCITRAL arbitration against investor; tribunal is already in place
  Apr 08, 2021
• Three are in place to hear contract-based arbitration against South Sudan
  Mar 25, 2021
• Spain applies for annulment of small-hydro award
  Oct 07, 2020
• Majority in Spanish wind farm dispute declines bifurcation request
  Aug 31, 2020
• Laurent Levy is tapped to chair renewables arbitration against Italy
  Jun 25, 2020
• Nord Stream 2 v. European Union arbitration record surfaces, shedding light on the parties’ early cases, first procedural decisions on seat and transparency, and reasons behind successful challenge to Peter Rees
  May 26, 2020
• EU court dismisses Nord Stream’s challenge against natural gas directive, and orders that confidential documents be removed from the case file
  May 22, 2020
• Analysis: In latest award against Spain, arbitrators decide that investors in small-hydro plants could not reasonably expect fixed incentives, but were entitled to a reasonable rate of return
  Mar 13, 2020
• Breaking: ICSID tribunal decides that investors in Spanish hydro energy plants only had a legitimate expectation of a reasonable rate of return
  Mar 09, 2020
• Another challenge to Peter Rees is rejected in Hydro v. Spain
  Feb 18, 2020
• [UPDATED WITH DECISION AND FULL ANALYSIS] Co-arbitrators dismiss second challenge to Peter Rees in Spanish renewables case, deeming disqualification in parallel Nord Stream 2 v. EU case to not infect his capacity to serve in ICSID case
  Feb 11, 2020
• EU succeeds in disqualifying Nord Stream 2's nominated arbitrator in high-stakes Energy Charter Treaty arbitration
  Jan 02, 2020
• Analysis: in newly-obtained ruling, tribunal considers that arbitrator’s relationship to litigation funder must be disclosed, but non-disclosure does not, by itself, warrant disqualification; Spain responds by bringing a second challenge this week
  Dec 11, 2019
• E.U. moves to disqualify Nord Stream 2's nominated arbitrator in high-stakes Energy Charter Treaty arbitration over pipeline
  Nov 22, 2019
• ANALYSIS: In new award, CMC v. Mozambique tribunal considers compatibility of Cotonou Convention dispute resolution with BIT; as in recent Libya case, arbitrators see scope for a settlement agreement to qualify as an investment
  Oct 31, 2019
• Mozambique prevails in two investment treaty arbitrations in a week
  Oct 30, 2019
• Arbitrator challenge and resignation round-up: Zachary Douglas, V.V. Veeder, Peter Rees, and Makhdoom Ali Khan
  Oct 22, 2019
• Parties tap Sean Murphy to chair claims by Luxembourg-based wind farm investors against Spain
  Sep 13, 2019
• John Townsend and Lucinda Low tapped to chair BIT arbitrations
  Oct 04, 2017
• Crawford and Collins are each tapped (again) to chair Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain
  May 04, 2016