Christer Soderlund - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Christer Soderlund

• Analysis: Considerations of nationality play key role in UNCITRAL tribunal’s decision to decline jurisdiction over alleged investors in Mexican hotel ventures
  Jan 04, 2023
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over claims by investors in Mexican eco-tourism projects
  Nov 23, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal declines jurisdiction over dual-nationals’ claim against Colombia, finding that their Colombian nationality is dominant and effective
  May 10, 2021
• Analysis: Non-retroactivity principle and treaty limitation period prompt ICSID tribunal to decline jurisdiction under the Colombia-USA TPA
  Apr 21, 2021
• Kaufmann-Kohler chaired tribunal dismisses claims based on TPA's financial services chapter; parallel UNCITRAL arbitration remains ongoing
  Apr 20, 2021
• Looking Back: In Amto v. Ukraine, arbitrators discussed denial of benefits under the ECT, and found that failure by state-owned company to pay outstanding debt did not give rise to a treaty breach
  Mar 19, 2021
• Cement plant owners file for partial annulment of ICSID award
  Mar 08, 2021
• Revealed: Arbitrators in Egyptian cement dispute unanimously find that lengthy court proceedings amount to a failure to provide effective means, but tribunal majority awards no damages
  Dec 11, 2020
• Imminent public hearings to be held in dual nationals’ case against Colombia
  Dec 11, 2020
• Tribunal in Egyptian cement dispute declines to award damages under the Egypt-Spain BIT; Charles Brower dissents
  Nov 02, 2020
• Sastre v. Mexico tribunal orders bifurcation of the proceedings after finding that Mexico’s jurisdictional objections, including objections to alleged “self-consolidation” and dual nationality, are prima facie serious
  Sep 23, 2020
• Analysis: Blue Bank v. Venezuela ad hoc committee upholds finding that a trustee did not qualify as investor since it merely managed the trust’s assets
  Sep 11, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee dismisses bid to annul award which declined jurisdiction over trustee
  Jun 23, 2020
• USA files non-disputing party submission in dual-nationals' case against Colombia
  Jun 05, 2020
• An UNCITRAL tribunal is in place to hear dispute over failed Mexican hotel ventures
  Mar 13, 2020
• Colombia round-up: An update on 12 treaty-based disputes against the state
  Feb 28, 2020
• 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
• ANALYSIS: Dual US-Colombian nationals - the Carrizosa brothers - lay out their arguments on jurisdiction in ongoing Free Trade Agreement arbitration
  Jul 02, 2019
• Colombia reveals its jurisdictional objections in dispute brought by alleged dual nationals in relation to investments in local financial institution
  Feb 08, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  Jan 04, 2019
• Arbitrator Zachary Douglas steps aside in face of threatened challenge, and tribunal is then finalized
  Dec 17, 2018
• $50 mil Bolivia award is upheld even though arbitrators used valuation method different from those of the parties; new decision casts doubt on power to annul provisional measures or arbitrator disqualification rulings
  May 20, 2018
• After respondent-state digs in its heels, appointing authority nominates two arbitrators to round out panel that will hear African investment treaty case
  Apr 19, 2018
• ICSID selects Castellanos Howell to preside over another Venezuela annulment process, even as country seeks to have him removed from panels reviewing unfavourable awards
  Jan 05, 2018
• Benin seeks revocation of emergency award, as investor follows up with formal BIT claim
  Jul 11, 2017
• ANALYSIS: Stockholm arbitrator finds emergency measures justified against Benin where entire investment faces extinguishment due to alleged denial of justice
  Jun 14, 2017
• Analysis: In new decision in Blue Bank v. Venezuela case, arbitrators scrutinize effects of ICSID denunciation on claim against Venezuela
  Apr 28, 2017
• BIT claim is dismissed, as arbitrators find that they lack personal jurisdiction over trustee that managed a trust whose investments were allegedly harmed
  Apr 26, 2017
• A stay of award is kept in place in Bolivia case, and ad-hoc committee picks a side in debate over powers to order posting of bank guarantees
  Feb 23, 2017
• Zimbabwe and Bolivia awards to be reviewed by recently-selected annulment committees at ICSID
  Dec 21, 2015
• Despite Egypt's reported desire to settle disputes, two tribunals are finalized in ICSID cases
  Nov 25, 2014
• Challenges filed against Feliciano and Sands at ICSID; replacement arbitrators named in two other cases, after tribunal departures
  Jan 08, 2014
• Arbitral award in Argentine financial crisis case will stand; government obliged to pay modest sum to U.S. insurance company
  Sep 20, 2011
• ICSID committee annuls Argentine crisis award; surprising development underscores need to reckon with exceptions clause in US-Argentina BIT
  Jun 30, 2010
• ICSID Arbitration tribunals appointed in GEA v. Ukraine and Continental Casualty v. Argentina (annulment) proceedings
  Apr 02, 2009
• ICSID Committee asks Argentina to put $75 Million into escrow if it wishes for arbitral award to remain stayed
  Mar 17, 2009
• Arbitrators rule that Latvian claimant in ECT arbitration was owned by Russian interests
  Oct 09, 2008