Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor

• PV Investors award against Spain is upheld at seat, as Swiss judges find that the arbitrators validly rejected efforts to reopen intra-EU objection
  Mar 23, 2021
• Three are in place to hear treaty-based financial services dispute with Colombia
  Mar 22, 2021
• Renewed settlement leads to discontinuation of $2+ billion Egyptian gas case
  Mar 14, 2021
• Stay of $6 billion award is partially lifted as Pakistan fails to meet conditions laid out by ICSID annulment committee
  Nov 10, 2020
• Investigation: In still-confidential Tenoch v. India award, Brower and Stern fall out over availability of national security defence to justify measures taken against Russian investors
  Oct 28, 2020
• Reasons for conditional stay of billion-dollar Pakistan mining award surface
  Sep 30, 2020
• Three are in place to hear Pakistan’s bid to annul $5.84 billion copper mining award
  Mar 26, 2020
• Jurisdictional decision in PV Investors v. Spain surfaces: majority of Kaufmann-Kohler/Sepulveda-Amor declines jurisdiction over domestic claimants under the UNCITRAL Rules; Brower disagrees
  Mar 20, 2020
• Breaking: arbitrators rule in longest-running Spanish solar claim; Kaufmann-Kohler/Sepulveda-Amor majority find that PV Investors only had legitimate expectations of reasonable return; Brower dissents
  Mar 01, 2020
• Egypt settles dispute over LNG plant, thus drawing line under $2+ billion Union Fenosa arbitration
  Feb 28, 2020
• $2+ billion Egypt award is cleared to be enforced, after ICSID ad hoc committee lifts stay of enforcement
  Jan 28, 2020
• India prevails in UNCITRAL BIT case brought by Russian/Cypriot investors in telecoms sector
  Jan 20, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee extends stay of enforcement of Caratube II award, referring to the claimants’ conduct relative to previous arbitration
  Dec 19, 2019
• Caratube v. Kazakhstan (II): Parties resume previously-suspended annulment proceedings; an ICSID ad hoc committee is formed, with Eduardo Zuleta tapped to chair
  Sep 26, 2019
• Latin America round-up: an update on disputes against Bolivia, Chile and Peru
  Aug 27, 2019
• Three are named to review $2 billion BIT Union Fenosa Gas award against Egypt
  Apr 24, 2019
• ICJ President reveals that ICJ judges will not participate in investor-state arbitration in the future
  Oct 27, 2018
• Cuba prevails in investment treaty claim, as tribunal dismisses Spaniard's case
  Oct 15, 2018
• With an apparent eye on set-aside, Spain unsuccessfully asks Novenergia tribunal for clarification on ECT–EU law relationship
  Apr 10, 2018
• Award in latest Spain loss surfaces, and SCC tribunal is seen to have taken jurisdiction over Novenergia’s claims, but gives effect to Energy Charter Treaty’s tax measures carve-out
  Feb 21, 2018
• On merits and damages, latest Spanish renewables award finds breach of FET in “radical” departure from earlier regulatory regime and a DCF-based valuation yields €53m in compensation for Novenergia
  Feb 21, 2018
• Breaking: Spain is held liable in another renewables case; tribunal finds government in breach of Energy Charter Treaty in a new award, ordering 53 million EUR in damages
  Feb 16, 2018
• As another Spain award looms, four more previously-confidential renewables cases surface; potential liability for all pending claims now exceeds $9.5 billion
  Feb 07, 2018
• Another BIT claim against Egypt proceeds along less-visible UNCITRAL pathway
  Nov 13, 2017
• India round-up: updates on the Vodafone, Devas and Tenoch (Bycell) arbitrations
  Nov 01, 2017
• In a rare move, after arbitrators decline jurisdiction over dispute, investor's home state courts rule that they will adjudicate claims for breach of bilateral investment treaty
  Jul 09, 2017
• Hearings loom in previously-unpublicized Stockholm Energy Charter Treaty claim, as another investor pursues ICSID claim
  May 24, 2017
• Spain's arbitral winning streak comes to a halt, as ICSID tribunal awards 128 million euro (plus interest) for changes made in solar sector
  May 05, 2017
• Divided ICSID tribunal declines jurisdiction over 450 million (Euro) BIT claim brought by Spanish investor against Equatorial Guinea
  Feb 11, 2016
• UPDATED: Spain prevails on merits in first of many Energy Charter Treaty claims in the solar sector
  Jan 25, 2016
• Permanent Court of Arbitration names presiding arbitrator in Iberdrola's treaty claim against Bolivia over electricity nationalisation
  Sep 10, 2015
• Intra-EU treaty claims controversy: new decisions and developments in claims brought by EU investors vs. Spain and Hungary
  Dec 24, 2014
• INVESTIGATION: latest developments in the six pending BIT arbitrations against India (and in other threatened disputes)
  Dec 11, 2014
• European Commission wades into solar arbitrations against Spain, intervening in one case a week before final hearings
  Nov 17, 2014
• Brussels' latest intervention casts shadow over investment treaty arbitrations brought by jilted solar energy investors
  Sep 08, 2014
• As with earlier Argentine cases, avalanche of claims against Spain look set to be resolved by diversely-composed arbitral tribunals
  Jul 15, 2014
• Once again, an appointing authority is needed to finalize tribunal to hear investor claims against India
  Apr 21, 2014
• Following PCA decision, Czech Republic thwarts move by solar investors to sue in single arbitral proceeding; meanwhile Spain sees new solar claim at ICSID
  Jan 01, 2014
• Foreign investment arbitral claims continue to pile up on Spain, as government turns screws on energy sector
  Dec 05, 2013
• After much effort, a tribunal is finalized in UNCITRAL arbitration pitting Russian and Cypriot telecoms investors against India
  Oct 16, 2013
• Spain round-up: twin Energy Charter claims moving at different speeds; arbitrator in third case agrees to hear jurisdictional objections first
  Jun 18, 2013
• Swiss lawyer, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler not seeing tail-off in investment treaty appointments in aftermath of bruising 2010 ICSID incident
  Oct 22, 2012
• In an apparent first, Venezuelan investors use one of that country’s investment treaties to sue a European nation; claim against Spain is second spawned by financial crisis
  Jul 09, 2012
• Ecuador prevails at jurisdictional phase in EMELEC dispute with purported owner of electrical company
  Jun 09, 2009