Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS
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RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor
- 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