Eduardo Silva Romero - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Eduardo Silva Romero

• Analysis: ICC tribunal enjoins investor from seeking determination of contractual claims in treaty proceedings; UNCITRAL tribunal reads injunction as allowing treaty arbitration to proceed
  Dec 20, 2022
• Treaty tribunal finds that its Kompetenz-Kompetenz power is unfettered by anti-arbitration injunction issued in parallel contract case
  Dec 19, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over contract-based claim against Sao Tome and Principe
  Jul 09, 2021
• Southern and Eastern Africa Round-Up: A new ICC case against Kenya, a tribunal in an arbitration started by Mozambique, US proceedings against Angola, and enforcement efforts in relation to an award against Tanzania
  May 21, 2021
• Three are in place to hear Azerbaijani oil field modernization dispute
  Oct 19, 2020
• Analysis: Aynes-chaired ICC tribunal finds that state validly terminated public-private partnership, and rejects corruption allegations
  Mar 18, 2020
• Central America Round-Up: An update on investment disputes involving Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
  Dec 09, 2019
• Permanent Court of Arbitration once again steps in to designate an appointing authority after investor gets silent treatment from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
  Nov 06, 2019
• Looking Back: In Vieira v. Chile, von Wobeser-chaired tribunal found by majority that claims did not fall under temporal scope of Chile-Spain BIT
  Sep 19, 2019
• Alpiq v. Romania: Ad-hoc committee is formed to hear annulment application, with Toby Landau tapped to chair
  Sep 19, 2019
• Portuguese-owned investment bank initiates contract-based UNCITRAL arbitration against Sao Tome and Principe
  Jul 16, 2019
• Looking Back: In Libananco v. Turkey annulment, investor failed to overturn unfavorable award declining jurisdiction over $11 billion claim
  Apr 25, 2019
• ICSID tribunal dismisses claim against Romania over electricity supply contracts
  Nov 15, 2018
• ICC tribunal refuses to grant provisional measures absent irreparable harm in Pan African Burkina Ltd v. Burkina Faso arbitration
  Jul 03, 2018
• Tribunal of Escobar, Alexandrov and Silva Romero is in place to hear unpublicized UNCITRAL BIT claim brought by US investors alleging Honduras expropriation
  Apr 05, 2018
• ICC arbitration comes to light following suspension of mining license
  Nov 07, 2017
• Effort to disqualify Klaus Sachs is rejected in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration (Alpiq v. Romania)
  Jun 05, 2017
• Ethiopia: government hit with UNCITRAL investment treaty claim brought by Israeli investor, as state-owned firm pursues domestic set-aside of award
  May 11, 2017
• In new award, arbitrators disagree whether claims should be nixed due to overlap with local cases; dissenter critiques party-appointments, and challenge arises when tribunal secretary joins respondent's law firm
  Feb 01, 2017
• Costa Rica secures dismissal of Spanish investor's claims on admissibility grounds
  Jan 25, 2017
• Effort to disqualify arbitral tribunal in Costa Rica case is rejected by ICSID
  Mar 09, 2016
• Panels finalized for three ICSID treaty-based arbitrations: Alpiq v. Romania, PT Ventures v. Cabo Verde and Ali Alyafei v. Jordan
  Sep 16, 2015
• Round-up of known claims under European Development Fund arbitration rules
  Aug 03, 2015
• Claimant files challenge to entire tribunal in ICSID case against Costa Rica, as state requests discontinuance of separate case amid investor’s bankruptcy
  Jul 31, 2015
• After Swiss consortium (Konsortium Oeconomicus) failed to disclose its members, UNCITRAL BIT tribunal held consortium's representatives personally liable to reimburse Czech Republic’s costs
  Feb 24, 2015
• Eastern Europe round-up: One Polish case ends at ICSID, while another proceeds at SCC; Slovakia denies benefits of U.S. BIT to would-be claimant
  Oct 28, 2014
• Arbitrators see no deliberate "closing of eyes" by investors with respect to conduct by its local business partner (Minnotte & Lewis v. Poland)
  Jun 06, 2014
• Two wins for states at ICSID, as Egypt prevails over H&H Enterprises and Poland defeats claims by Robert Lewis and David Minnotte
  May 19, 2014
• Poland update: government grappling with at least five treaty disputes; arbitrators rule on participation of counsel in ICSID case
  Aug 09, 2013
• ICSID annulment committees decline to annul arbitral awards in Malicorp v. Egypt and Lemire v. Ukraine
  Jul 10, 2013
• Cypriot firm, Libananco, fails to annul $15 million costs-order in ICSID case with Turkey
  May 23, 2013
• ICSID tribunals composed in cases against Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Venezuela; Pakistan swiftly moves to challenge claimant’s nominated arbitrator
  Jul 26, 2012
• Annulment Committee rejects Turkey’s bid to lift stay of enforcement on $15 Million costs award against investor
  May 22, 2012
• Czech Republic announces dismissal of Swiss claim arising out of failed waste incineration plant
  Mar 26, 2012
• ICSID Round-Up: Arbitrators announced for claims against Albania, Guinea, Peru and Turkey annulment case
  Mar 14, 2012
• Ethiopia prevailed in face of foreign investor’s attempt to use investment treaty to sue over ICC arbitral award
  Mar 04, 2012
• ICSID panelists named in annulment cases involving El Salvador and Egypt, and in arbitration arising out of Niger airport services dispute
  Aug 19, 2011
• ICSID panels convened in disputes over Uruguay’s tobacco policies, Venezuelan airport concession, Polish health-care venture, and Hungarian energy investment
  Mar 30, 2011
• ICSID Committee declines to annul large damages award in Rumeli & Telsim v. Kazakhstan case
  Mar 25, 2010
• ICSID committee asks Kazakhstan to guarantee prompt payment if annulment fails – or post 50% of award value now
  Apr 02, 2009