Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

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• Analysis: In the context of Rule 41(5) proceedings, an ICSID tribunal decides that notice of dispute did not interrupt limitation period, and concludes that banking claim against Colombia manifestly falls outside of its temporal jurisdiction
  Feb 28, 2022
• [Updated with new document] ICSID tribunal uses Arbitration Rule 41(5) to dismiss banking claim against Colombia
  Feb 24, 2022
• Egypt reportedly prevails in treaty arbitration
  Nov 15, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee is formed to hear construction investor’s bid to annul Oman award
  Jul 15, 2021
• 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