Santiago Torres Bernardez - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Santiago Torres Bernardez

• Analysis: In third arbitration stemming from dispute between García Armas family and Venezuela, tribunal majority relies on requirements for active action of investing, transborder flows, and principle of estoppel to decline jurisdiction; dissenter would have found treaty breach
  Nov 08, 2024
• ICSID tribunal majority dismisses Luis García Armas v. Venezuela arbitration on jurisdiction/admissibility grounds; dissenter would have found treaty breach
  Oct 31, 2024
• Argentina files for annulment of casino award
  Mar 10, 2022
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Two resignations and one appointment
  Dec 21, 2021
• Analysis: Tribunal majority finds that revocation of casino license was arbitrary and disproportionate, thus amounting to an indirect expropriation; respondent’s nominee considers that the revocation was shielded by the police powers doctrine
  Nov 11, 2021
• Tribunal majority finds that revocation of casino license amounts to an unlawful expropriation; Santiago Torres Bernardez dissents
  Nov 08, 2021
• Dutch Court rejects bid to set aside UNCITRAL award that had declined jurisdiction over dual nationals
  Feb 04, 2021
• ICSID dismisses challenge to Grigera Naon in telecom case against Venezuela
  Oct 28, 2020
• Arbitrators reject certain jurisdictional objections in Luis Garcia Armas v. Venezuela arbitration
  Aug 03, 2020
• Analysis: In Manuel Garcia Armas v. Venezuela, an UNCITRAL tribunal interprets the Spain-Venezuela BIT as incorporating ICSID’s limitations on claims by dual nationals
  Dec 24, 2019
• Breaking: UNCITRAL tribunal dismisses dual nationals' BIT claim
  Dec 20, 2019
• ICSID once again turns to Juan Fernandez-Armesto to chair a Venezuela arbitration
  Oct 10, 2019
• Looking Back: In newly-disinterred Houston Industries v. Argentina award, ICSID tribunal decided that it lacked power to grant discontinuance request in the face of Argentina's insistence that costs still needed to be resolved
  Mar 01, 2019
• In new ruling, BIT tribunal does not consider amendment of third party funding contract to be sufficient guarantee that a state could collect on possible future costs order 
  Oct 24, 2018
• In latest interim measures ruling, arbitral tribunal refuses investor request to suspend local criminal proceedings
  Oct 24, 2018
• Tribunal splits on investment treaty's local litigation requirements in newly-published jurisdictional decision
  Oct 24, 2018
• Arbitrators rule that investors backed by a prominent litigation funder must post $1.5 million security in order to prosecute investment treaty arbitration 
  Jul 11, 2018
• Tomka-chaired tribunal declines jurisdiction over Transban claim - but majority diverges from Fabrica tribunal, and sees no problem with investor consent given after Venezuela's ICSID denunciation notice
  Nov 22, 2017
• Arbitrators ask claimants to prove that they are solvent enough to pay any eventual adverse costs orders in BIT claims against Venezuela
  Jul 11, 2017
• As Argentine bond case comes to a formal close, arbitrators spar over whether they had failed to render a merits award in a reasonable time
  Jan 04, 2017
• Familiar faces - including Brazilian chair - are tasked with deciding latest food-industry arbitration against Venezuela
  Jul 27, 2016
• ANALYSIS: why some members of a family-business are taking their disputes with Venezuela to ICSID's Additional Facility, while others are choosing UNCITRAL
  May 09, 2016
• Third (and largest) of Italian bondholder claims against Argentina is settled; cases blazed a trail, but arbitrators continue to disagree as to scope for ICSID to be used for sovereign debt disputes
  Feb 02, 2016
• UK Investor, ICS, sues Argentina again - before new UNCITRAL tribunal - this time after complying with 18 month local litigation clause
  Sep 20, 2015
• One of three ICSID Argentine bond arbitrations collapses due to lack of funding
  Jun 02, 2015
• Arbitrators named in Argentina, Hungary cases - and Schreuer's replacement is selected in Montenegro arbitration
  Apr 09, 2015
• Recent developments in three sovereign bond arbitrations against Argentina at ICSID
  Aug 21, 2014
• ICSID rejects challenges to David Caron and Santiago Torres Bernardez in Transban v. Venezuela arbitration
  May 14, 2014
• Arbitrator challenge is rejected in Koch v. Venezuela case, but two more challenges spring up in another Venezuela dispute
  Mar 11, 2014
• ICSID removes arbitrator in Blue Bank v. Venezuela case due to his law firm elsewhere acting against Venezuela
  Nov 18, 2013
• Another divided ICSID tribunal finds it has jurisdiction to arbitrate an Argentine sovereign debt dispute; failure to pursue local remedies not fatal to case
  Feb 11, 2013
• Arbitrators dismiss UNCITRAL investment treaty claim due to failure of claimant to begin in local courts (Argentina)
  Feb 16, 2012
• ANALYSIS: MFN clause that had worked for some previous investors fails to unlock door to arbitration
  Feb 16, 2012
• ICSID Round-Up: Argentina bondholders tribunal reconstituted, Hungary tribunal picked, and two new annulment panels chosen
  Jan 31, 2012
• World Bank arbitration tribunal upholds jurisdiction over Billion Dollar claim by Italian victims of Argentine sovereign debt default
  Aug 07, 2011
• ANALYSIS: ICJ ruling in Argentina-Uruguay case and its relevance to investment arbitration
  Apr 22, 2010
• Tribunal constituted in UNCITRAL claim against Argentina
  Mar 18, 2010
• ICSID tribunal declines jurisdiction over claim by German investor against Argentina; rejects use of MFN clause
  Dec 11, 2008