V.V. Veeder - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT V.V. Veeder

• Hague Court of Appeal reverses judgment that denied enforcement of Devas award against Indian state-owned company, finding that Indian courts breached due process when liquidating claimant
  Jan 10, 2025
• Looking Back: In Continental Casualty v. Argentina jurisdictional decision, ICSID tribunal applied prima facie test and adopted broad approach to shareholder protection
  Apr 17, 2023
• Breaking: South Korea is found liable for treaty breach in Lone Star banking dispute
  Aug 31, 2022
• Dutch Court of Appeal upholds partial award in long-running Chevron v. Ecuador arbitration
  Jun 30, 2022
• Looking Back: Exxon and Hunt Oil failed to persuade ICC tribunal that lucrative Yemeni oil concession was extended despite lack of parliamentary ratification
  Oct 20, 2021
• Renewed settlement leads to discontinuation of $2+ billion Egyptian gas case
  Mar 14, 2021
• Looking Back: OKO Pankki v. Estonia solidified legitimate expectations as central to FET, found a continuing breach by the state, and reinforced awards of compound interest in investment treaty arbitration
  Mar 09, 2021
• Libya Round-Up: A new claim, a new decision, and an update on other cases against the state
  Feb 11, 2021
• Germany’s constitutional court declines Achmea’s request for an order to halt ratification of intra-EU BIT Termination Agreement; PM decision reveals arguments about validity of the CJEU’s Achmea judgment
  Feb 05, 2021
• Poland Round-Up: A new award, a newly-identified tribunal, and other procedural updates on Polish cases – including a previously unknown judgment from set-aside proceedings
  Feb 04, 2021
• Looking Back: Arbitrators in Plama v. Bulgaria grappled with denial of benefits and the applicability of MFN clauses to dispute resolution
  Dec 24, 2020
• ICSID sees no pro-state bias by Zachary Douglas in Sumrain v. Kuwait; tribunal is reluctant to suspend proceedings due to COVID-19 in light of provisional measures request
  Oct 22, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Three replacements and one resignation
  Oct 22, 2020
• The Hague District Court rejects bid to set aside partial award in Chevron v. Ecuador
  Sep 17, 2020
• Analysis: Veeder-chaired tribunal finds that Austrian investors made prima facie claims, and rejects intra-EU objection
  Sep 08, 2020
• Jurisdictional award in V.V. Veeder-chaired ad hoc arbitration against Poland comes to light
  Sep 03, 2020
• Looking Back: Tribunals in Trans-Global Petroleum v. Jordan and Brandes v. Venezuela provided the first known interpretations of ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5)
  Jun 29, 2020
• [Updated with full analysis ] NAFTA tribunal dismisses claims in Nelson v. Mexico, leaving investor with $2 million costs order
  Jun 17, 2020
• Three are in place to hear Spain’s bid to annul photovoltaic power award
  Jun 08, 2020
• Two cases are discontinued at ICSID following the parties’ settlements
  May 29, 2020
• Replacement chair is named for high-stakes Chevron v. Ecuador arbitration
  May 20, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: one replacement and two vacancies
  Apr 17, 2020
• Spain files for annulment of €42 million ECT award
  Apr 08, 2020
• V.V. Veeder 1948-2020
  Mar 09, 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
• Arbitrators comings and goings: arbitrators resign from a trio of treaty-based cases
  Jan 20, 2020
• Analysis: second annulment decision in Pey Casado v. Chile affirms resubmission tribunal’s approach to the res judicata findings of the first tribunal
  Jan 12, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee declines to annul resubmission award in long-running Pey Casado v. Chile saga
  Jan 09, 2020
• ICSID rejects bid to disqualify Veeder and Douglas in Kuwait arbitration
  Jan 06, 2020
• Ecuador round-up: an update on arbitration proceedings against the State, including unreported cases and looming awards
  Dec 30, 2019
• Arbitrator challenge and resignation round-up: Zachary Douglas, V.V. Veeder, Peter Rees, and Makhdoom Ali Khan
  Oct 22, 2019
• Three are in place to hear claims brought by a group of Egyptian real estate investors against Kuwait, with Zachary Douglas tapped to chair
  Oct 06, 2019
• Philippines arbitration round-up: Chevron files BIT claim, as we review seven other arbitrations against the state and its instrumentalities
  Oct 04, 2019
• Mexico round-up: details surface about taximeter NAFTA threat, new objection is raised on ownership/control in telecoms case, new tribunal is formed in quarry case, settlement struck in pipeline case, and reasons surface for non-release of KBR NAFTA award
  Sep 22, 2019
• Five years after Veeder-chaired tribunal declined jurisdiction over National Gas’ claims against Egypt, its parent company, CTIP Oil & Gas, has filed for arbitration
  Sep 17, 2019
• Kyrgyzstan Round-Up: an update on four arbitrations against the Kyrgyz state
  Aug 27, 2019
• Veeder-chaired tribunal declines jurisdiction over unusual claim where investor sought to use MFN, domestic law, and unilateral declarations of state to circumvent unratified BIT
  Aug 01, 2019
• Breaking: Spain ordered to pay 41.7 million in new ECT award, as tribunal of Binnie, Haigh and Veeder reject intra-EU objection and deem Spanish renewables legislation to be a specific obligation to investor; claimant 9Ren is subsidiary of US private equity fund First Reserve
  Jun 02, 2019
• Breaking: In new UNCITRAL award, Derains-chaired tribunal declines jurisdiction, finding that investor did not make an investment eligible for protection of Spain-Venezuela BIT
  May 20, 2019
• ICC Tribunal finds in favour of energy consortium in billion dollar tax dispute with Philippines
  Apr 25, 2019
• Tanzania faces new bilateral investment treaty arbitration
  Apr 17, 2019
• An update on India's satellite spectrum arbitrations, including enforcement developments related to $1+ billion ICC award debt and status of parallel BIT claims
  Apr 17, 2019
• Chevron v. Ecuador interim BIT awards are upheld by Dutch Supreme Court
  Apr 16, 2019
• Tribunal members diverge in final ruling in intra-EU ECT arbitration against Bulgaria
  Apr 11, 2019
• Looking Back (3 of 3): In CME v. Czech Republic post-liability developments, the respondent challenged the tribunal’s decision before Swedish courts and sought reconsideration during the quantum phase
  Apr 10, 2019
• V.V. Veeder once again tapped to hear a Cypriot banking case
  Mar 19, 2019
• Reasons emerge as to why Mercer v. Canada tribunal declined to issue a supplementary decision in NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration
  Mar 07, 2019
• In heretofore-confidential TRACO v. Poland BIT award, Veeder-chaired tribunal canvases prescription, illegality, estoppel objections, and concurrent causation
  Feb 19, 2019
• Citing need for independence and impartiality of all arbitrators, tribunal frowns on BIT's provision that each party should fund its own arbitrator; similar BIT wording led to unpublicized reversal of costs ruling in Eureko v. Poland case
  Feb 19, 2019
• Cyprus prevails in another investment treaty arbitration, this time defeating claims under Lebanon BIT relating to controversial FBME bank
  Jan 29, 2019
• Second ICC tribunal weighs in with award in a Libyan airport dispute, awarding contractors payment for works completed, but rejecting broader claims
  Jan 14, 2019
• Tribunal weighs in with ruling on supplementary decision request in Mercer v. Canada NAFTA arbitration
  Dec 13, 2018
• In now-public decision, reasoning of German Federal Supreme Court on set aside of BIT award is clarified
  Nov 11, 2018
• In highly-anticipated verdict, German Supreme Court determines that Achmea v. Slovakia award must be set aside in light of the recent European Court of Justice findings on intra-EU BIT arbitration
  Nov 08, 2018
• Union Fenosa v. Egypt: in now-surfaced award, tribunal dismisses necessity defence and sees no abuse in investor pursuit of multiple arbitrations
  Oct 22, 2018
• Analysis: tribunal fractures on whether corruption was at root of foreign investor's hiring of local agent who enjoyed “influence” over key government officials
  Oct 22, 2018
• ICSID tribunals hearing separate Egyptian gas cases adopt diverging holdings on attribution question and on BIT-compatibility of revocation of tax-free status
  Oct 22, 2018
• An update on eight investment arbitration claims against Canada
  Sep 20, 2018
• ANALYSIS: In newly-surfaced ICC contract award, arbitrators find that India’s space company Antrix repudiated a satellite lease agreement; force majeure argument is nixed, and foreign-owned claimant stands to collect $1 billion US
  Sep 17, 2018
• Tribunal of Veeder, Rowley and Clodfelter diverge with respect to key holdings in recent award
  Sep 13, 2018
• Chevron v. Ecuador award analysis: tribunal considers final questions of jurisdiction and surveys evidence of how Ecuadorian environmental trial was (mis)conducted
  Sep 09, 2018
• Chevron v. Ecuador award analysis: unpacking the tribunal's umbrella clause and denial of justice holdings
  Sep 09, 2018
• Looking Back: In World Duty Free v. Kenya, arbitrators refused to enforce a government contract procured through bribery
  Sep 09, 2018
• UPDATED: Ecuador is held liable in multi-billion dollar Chevron case for breaches of U.S. investment treaty
  Sep 07, 2018
• Arbitrators hold Egypt liable for more than $2 billion as a result of unfair treatment of gas plant investors
  Sep 03, 2018
• Foreign investor asks arbitrators to enjoin Philippines Supreme Court proceedings
  Sep 03, 2018
• Korea round-up: An update on six investment treaty disputes against South Korea
  Jul 25, 2018
• In now-public Devas v. India BIT award, arbitrators disagree on interpretation of “essential security interest” clause and extent to which national security concerns underlay state's conduct
  Jun 12, 2018
• ANALYSIS: In now-published Mercer v. Canada award, Veeder, Douglas and Orrego-Vicuna diverge over NAFTA procurement exception, and whether non-discrimination forms part of customary international law
  May 14, 2018
• Newly-published decisions in Gavazzi v. Romania reveal ICSID tribunal’s reasons for finding that commercial award qualifies as an investment, and for denying jurisdiction over counterclaims
  Mar 28, 2018
• On the merits, Gavazzi v. Romania tribunal finds breach of FET and expropriation, but no denial of justice in setting aside commercial award for public policy reasons
  Mar 28, 2018
• Holdings surface in Gavazzi v. Romania, illuminating reasons for award of $3.5 million (plus interest) for sums invested and loss of chance; arbitrators split on rectification decision
  Mar 28, 2018
• Canada prevails in NAFTA arbitration with U.S. investor in British Columbia pulp mill
  Mar 06, 2018
• Balkans round-up: catching up on various investment treaty claims in South-East Europe, including tribunal constitution, an arbitrator challenge, and other key developments
  Mar 04, 2018
• Libya round-up: state reports success in ICC arbitration with scandal-plagued Brazilian contractor; French investor's BIT claim is roiled by Libya's insistence that a purported settlement was not made by proper authorities
  Feb 25, 2018
• Bulgaria faces its first known arbitration claim from a foreign investor in renewable energy generation sector
  Feb 14, 2018
• Koch Industries' $400m award surfaces, clarifying how jurisdiction was found - with off-take agreement deemed an investment - and certain non-expropriation claims rejected
  Nov 30, 2017
• Veeder, Lalonde and Douglas agree on expropriation of Koch's stake in fertilizer venture - but disagree whether (valuable) rights in off-take agreement can be expropriated
  Nov 30, 2017
• Quantum analysis: arbitrators in Koch v. Venezuela case express perplexity at how damages experts can diverge so sharply, and ultimately rely on third-party valuation; Douglas dissents on generous sum awarded for contractual rights
  Nov 30, 2017
• Berman-led tribunal agrees to rectify 2016 award, confirming finding of satisfaction as remedy for denial of justice, but hits claimants with costs order; annulment application now in motion
  Oct 16, 2017
• Arbitrators in Lone Pine v. Canada case allow one NGO to file a brief in NAFTA fracking arbitration
  Sep 12, 2017
• Egypt round-up: a new investment treaty claim by Future Pipe International B.V. lands at ICSID, as at least seven other arbitrations moved forward
  Aug 27, 2017
• In lead-up to hearings in Lone Pine v. Canada NAFTA fracking arbitration, USA and Mexico offer views (and some support for certain of Canada's positions), while potential amici seek leave to intervene
  Aug 22, 2017
• ANALYSIS: Dutch appeal court sees no grounds to set aside Chevron v. Ecuador jurisdictional decision and interim measures
  Aug 01, 2017
• Looking Back: Methanex v. USA established iconic ‘police powers’ test, admitted first-ever amicus brief, and delved into use of WTO case-law, admissibility of unlawfully-obtained evidence, and NAFTA’s ‘relating to’ requirement
  Aug 01, 2017
• Looking Back: Methanex tribunal deferred to scientific study undertaken by University of California, and rejected jurisdiction after finding no breaches on the merits
  Aug 01, 2017
• Ecuador fails again to overturn interim awards in Chevron BIT case
  Jul 20, 2017
• Eduardo Zuleta tapped to chair NAFTA claim against Mexico
  Jun 29, 2017
• Looking Back: In Impregilo v Pakistan case, arbitrators needed to grapple with distinction between treaty/contract claims and scope of umbrella clause
  May 22, 2017
• In new decision, ICSID confirms that it will allow an arbitrator to recuse himself from deciding a challenge to a colleague
  Apr 24, 2017
• Pey Casado seeks to exit long-running ICSID case - one week after filing new claim under UNCITRAL rules - but must get Chile's blessing for discontinuation
  Apr 24, 2017
• Pey Casado files a new UNCITRAL arbitration against Chile; meanwhile, arbitrator challenge is rejected in parallel long-running ICSID claim
  Apr 13, 2017
• INVESTIGATION: As fight continues over $1bil award, Libya facing at least a dozen investment treaty arbitrations - possibly more - in aftermath of Arab Spring
  Mar 31, 2017
• In a supplementary decision, Pac Rim tribunal grants El Salvador’s request for post-award interest
  Mar 28, 2017
• Sir Frank Berman seeks to recuse himself from deciding challenge to fellow arbitrator - [UPDATED] and then Pey Casado claimants challenge him again
  Mar 06, 2017
• The NeverEnding Story: latest developments in the Pey Casado v. Chile case include arbitrator challenge ruling; another challenge; and a slowed rectification process
  Feb 28, 2017
• Veeder chosen to chair tax dispute between Shell-led consortium and the Philippines
  Jan 27, 2017
• El Salvador requests supplementary ruling in Pac Rim dispute, seeking an order of post-award interest
  Dec 05, 2016
• Three new requests – including double arbitrator challenge – in longest-running ICSID case, Pey Casado v. Chile
  Nov 30, 2016
• NAFTA fracking case has a new timetable, as hearings loom next year
  Nov 09, 2016
• Jordan settles claim under France-Jordan bilateral investment treaty
  Oct 31, 2016
• ANALYSIS: in long-awaited Pac Rim award, tribunal finds that investor held no domestic law rights to ground alleged breaches of investment statute
  Oct 16, 2016
• El Salvador prevails in long-running "Pacific Rim" arbitration
  Oct 14, 2016
• TransCanada and USA name their arbitrators in high-stakes NAFTA dispute
  Sep 26, 2016
• ANALYSIS: Pey Casado tribunal sees no basis for new compensation order, but pointedly reminds Chile of its BIT breach
  Sep 15, 2016
• In new award, arbitrators in long-running case against Chile find that claimants did not make out their case for compensation
  Sep 14, 2016
• India liable for expropriation and unfair treatment in satellite dispute, but majority of tribunal says "essential security" defence scales back liability
  Jul 26, 2016
• In-depth: in Copper Mesa case, jurisdictional objections were waved away; Ecuador breaches BIT due to failure to protect investor from protesters
  Jun 05, 2016
• Veeder-chaired panel hold Ecuador liable for BIT breach, but mining corp gets only sunk costs - and sees damages claw-back due to its "unclean hands"
  Jun 01, 2016
• Chile: investment dispute is lodged under Colombia FTA, as award looms in another case
  May 29, 2016
• Balkans update: unpublicized treaty cases come to light - Medusa v. Montenegro and Civis v. Serbia - and an arbitrator challenge to Jernej Sekolec shakes up an ad-hoc tribunal
  Apr 19, 2016
• Law firm ties of ICSID arbitrators spur recent resignations from tribunals
  Mar 09, 2016
• Spain update: more claims surface in Stockholm and at ICSID, and several new tribunals are finalized
  Mar 03, 2016
• In NAFTA fracking case, Canada lays out full defence, seeing no treaty-protected property rights owned by investor
  Feb 29, 2016
• ICSID names chairman in Total v. Uganda BIT arbitration
  Jan 03, 2016
• In new award, arbitrators explain why Electrabel's remaining claims do not put Hungary in breach of Energy Charter Treaty
  Dec 02, 2015
• Libya faces at least two new investment treaty arbitrations
  Jul 22, 2015
• Arbitrators let UNCITRAL claim vs. Poland proceed despite investor's failure to comply with notice provision and cooling-off period
  Jun 29, 2015
• In UNCITRAL award, arbitrators refuse to enjoin an expropriation, and later find that mere threat of taking does not breach investment treaty
  Jun 29, 2015
• Korea round-up: Lone Star case reaches hearings, as at least two other investment treaty claims loom
  May 18, 2015
• In new pleading, Lone Pine questions "environmental" bona fides of decision to cancel fracking exploration permit, and offers a DCF valuation of its losses
  May 07, 2015
• Arbitrators in NAFTA fracking case confirm open hearings, and resolve dispute between parties as to whether proceedings shall be in French or English
  May 01, 2015
• Romania loses another intra-EU BIT case, this time under a treaty that was mutually terminated - but whose sunset clause provided arbitral footing
  Apr 24, 2015
• Ecuador round-up: Key rulings loom in half-dozen cases, including windfall levy disputes, Occidental annulment, and several lesser-noticed arbitrations
  Apr 10, 2015
• On heels of bruising NAFTA loss in Bilcon case, Canada offers first sketch of its defence to "Lone Pine" fracking arbitration
  Mar 30, 2015
• Ecuador succeeds on a preliminary ‘Track 1B’ issue in Chevron/TexPet arbitration, but scrutiny of Ecuadorian justice system still looms
  Mar 13, 2015
• Arbitrators finalized to hear ICC claim against Cyprus arising out of take-over of controversial bank
  Feb 04, 2015
• Canada's NAFTA Chapter 11 claims: An update on eight cases, including Lone Pine (fracking), Eli Lilly and Windstream Energy
  Jan 30, 2015
• German court sees no clash between Achmea v. Slovakia arbitral award and EU law, and is unmoved by persistent arguments of European Commission
  Jan 08, 2015
• As merits hearings approach in Chevron v. Ecuador BIT arbitration, latest legal arguments come into focus
  Dec 29, 2014
• As Jan Paulsson moves from expert to counsel role in Chevron v. Ecuador arbitration, parties continue to debate his views on denial of justice
  Dec 29, 2014
• INVESTIGATION: latest developments in the six pending BIT arbitrations against India (and in other threatened disputes)
  Dec 11, 2014
• Arbitrators finalized in three proceedings: Bear Creek v. Peru, Krederi v. Ukraine and Unión Fenosa Gas, S.A. v. Egypt
  Dec 10, 2014
• In-Depth: why PCA Secretary-General declined to remove arbitrators for alleged "failure to act" on Ecuador requests in Chevron case
  Nov 30, 2014
• In-Depth: PCA says that many of Ecuador's bias charges are untimely, but considers (and rejects) all of them on their merits
  Nov 30, 2014
• Ecuador fails to disqualify arbitrators in Chevron BIT case; merits hearings loom in April, as deliberations remain ongoing on earlier issues
  Nov 26, 2014
• Canada sets out legal defence to U.S. pulp mill investor’s claims of discrimination in NAFTA arbitration
  Oct 19, 2014
• Split between arbitrators on res judicata issue comes into focus as award is released from NAFTA pharmaceutical arbitration
  Oct 15, 2014
• Arbitrators see less favourable treatment of Canadian pharma facilities, but accept US explanation; "effective means" legal obligation also scrutinized
  Oct 15, 2014
• ANALYSIS: Tribunal's disagreement as to seat of arbitration highlights tension over treaty-parties' scope to sway their own courts on treaty interpretation
  Oct 15, 2014
• In lead-up to closed-door hearings in Pac Rim v. El Salvador case, parties' latest briefs see new arguments on estoppel and proportionality
  Sep 08, 2014
• United States wins second straight arbitration with Apotex pharma company; majority finds that earlier NAFTA award is res judicata
  Aug 27, 2014
• Now-public 2012 award from Achmea v. Slovakia I case saw tribunal dismiss more jurisdictional objections, including alleged illegality
  Jun 18, 2014
• In Achmea v. Slovakia I award, liability centers on two temporary measures that fall short of expropriation, but breach fair treatment standard
  Jun 18, 2014
• Arbitrators nixed DCF valuation of temporary harms In Achmea v. Slovakia I case, and declined to order state to refrain from future BIT breach
  Jun 18, 2014
• Mercer International lays out its NAFTA discrimination arguments against Canada in pulp mill dispute
  Jun 03, 2014
• ICSID Round-Up: New arbitrator in Pey v. Chile; new claim by Highbury and others vs Venezuela; and a bid to annul award in Rose Levy v. Peru
  May 21, 2014
• As tribunal declines jurisdiction due to lack of foreign control of ICSID claimant, dispute over underlying Cairo arbitral award is not over
  Apr 09, 2014
• ANALYSIS: The scope for ICSID arbitrators to agree to hand on to ICSID the task of resolving challenges to colleagues
  Mar 18, 2014
• Central Asia round-up: updates on four UNCITRAL investment treaty arbitrations in the "Stans"
  Mar 11, 2014
• Tribunals named for Transglobal v. Panama, Spentex v. Uzbekistan and Federal Elektrik v. Uzbekistan arbitrations
  Feb 23, 2014
• El Salvador argues that domestic investment law is not a portal for Pacific Rim mining company to reach international law protections
  Jan 19, 2014
• Ecuador lays out new merits arguments in Chevron BIT arbitration, claimants tender new evidence, and tribunal postpones this week's hearings
  Jan 19, 2014
• Bulgaria disputes: German investor's BIT claim is dismissed by tribunal chaired by Brigitte Stern; meanwhile, tribunal in separate treaty case at ICSID is constituted
  Dec 12, 2013
• OVERVIEW: Where the Chevron v. Ecuador bilateral investment treaty arbitration currently stands as merits hearings loom
  Nov 19, 2013
• In “show cause” proceeding, Chevron quantifies alleged losses due to Ecuador’s failure to block enforcement of Lago Agrio judgment
  Nov 19, 2013
• In a sign of the arbitral times, Ecuador urges arbitrators to “reconsider” an earlier holding – and tribunal lets parties argue it out
  Nov 19, 2013
• Parties debate whether a state’s obligation to respect final and binding nature of awards under U.S.-Ecuador investment treaty extends to “interim” awards
  Nov 19, 2013
• As hearings kick off in Apotex v USA arbitration, new pleadings show continued sparring over Canadian drug companies' claim to own NAFTA-protected investments
  Nov 18, 2013
• Kyrgyz Republic round-up: as arbitration is filed by investor in rare earths mining, an earlier claim culminates in a costs order against claimants
  Nov 01, 2013
• German Supreme Court declines to opine on validity of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties
  Oct 18, 2013
• Apotex Inc., fails to prove that it had an “investment” in U.S. territory entitled to NAFTA Chapter 11 protection
  Jul 02, 2013
• Pacific Rim mining company argues that El Salvador’s investment statute should be read in light of international jurisprudence
  May 15, 2013
• In BIT arbitration, Ecuador weighs in with lengthy rebuttal of Chevron’s denial of justice claims
  May 13, 2013
• ANALYSIS: Ecuador lays out its defence to other (non denial-of-justice) claims in pending treaty arbitration with Chevron
  May 13, 2013
• Lone Star claim against South Korea has an arbitral tribunal in place
  May 13, 2013
• Dismantling of Southern African Development Community Tribunal spawns UNCITRAL arbitration claim for denial of justice
  May 07, 2013
• Tribunals named in three bank nationalization claims vs. Kyrgyz Republic; separate mining arbitration sheds light on Oxus settlement
  Apr 16, 2013
• Tribunal nixes requests by Canadian arbitration lawyer and an unrelated NGO to intervene as amicus curiae in Apotex v. USA NAFTA arbitration
  Mar 19, 2013
• ICSID tribunal is finalized for claim by two Italian investors (Gavazzi) in Romanian steel plant
  Feb 14, 2013
• ANALYSIS: As Ecuador is held in breach of order to block enforceability of Lago Agrio judgment, tribunal remains reticent as to why it sees harm to Chevron as irreparable
  Feb 11, 2013
• Dutch investor, Achmea, seeks to test limits of investment treaty arbitration by asking arbitrators to block state from expropriating its assets
  Feb 08, 2013
• Tribunal rules on U.S. Government’s request to bifurcate NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration proceedings
  Feb 06, 2013
• Jurisdictional disagreements are laid bare in NAFTA arbitration; Apotex production facilities located outside the United States figure prominently
  Jan 29, 2013
• Parties to Apotex v. U.S.A. NAFTA arbitration spar over meaning of legal protections including "effective means" and non-discrimination obligations
  Jan 29, 2013
• Investor announces victory in intra-EU BIT arbitration with Slovakia arising out of health insurance policy changes
  Dec 10, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Electrabel ruling examines relations between EU law and Energy Charter Treaty and rejects European Commission’s suggestion that case should not be arbitrated
  Dec 10, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Measures other than outright termination of power purchase agreement fail to rise to level of treaty breaches by Hungary in Electrabel arbitration
  Dec 10, 2012
• Tribunal in Electrabel case finds that Hungary did not breach Energy Charter Treaty, but one claim reserved for future determination
  Dec 05, 2012
• Tribunal selected to hear U.S. investor’s claim that Canada mistreated pulp mill investment
  Oct 12, 2012
• Poland prevails in intra-EU BIT case; UNCITRAL arbitration chaired by V.V. Veeder rejects mistreatment claims of German investor
  Sep 16, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators continue to debate whether states deserve a “margin of appreciation” when it comes to how to comply with BIT obligations
  Aug 01, 2012
• Tribunal chosen to resolve pharma claims against U.S.A., and to rule whether MFN clause imports other obligations into NAFTA
  Jun 14, 2012
• ANALYSIS: ICSID Tribunal examines and rejects all Salvadoran objections to hearing Pac Rim claims under domestic investment statute
  Jun 05, 2012
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators reject El Salvador’s contention that Pac Rim’s 2007 change of nationality was an ‘abuse of process’
  Jun 04, 2012
• ANALYSIS: In first test of CAFTA ‘denial of benefits’ clause, arbitrators rule that U.S. ‘shell’ company not owed CAFTA protections for investments in El Salvador
  Jun 04, 2012
• Arbitrators dismiss mining company’s CAFTA claims against El Salvador, but will hear claims under domestic investment statute
  Jun 03, 2012
• As Chevron finally plays the ‘denial of justice’ card in Ecuador dispute, arbitrators call for fast-tracking of some issues
  Apr 19, 2012
• Jan Paulsson weighs into Chevron v. Ecuador arbitration with expert opinion on denial of justice
  Apr 19, 2012
• ICSID Round-Up: Arbitrators announced for claims against Albania, Guinea, Peru and Turkey annulment case
  Mar 14, 2012
• Copper miner files its statement of claim in previously-unannounced ad-hoc arbitration against Ecuador
  Mar 01, 2012
• Panels selected in ICSID matters involving Moldova, Egypt, and the Central African Republic
  Jan 13, 2012
• New International Investment Law Works: May 2011 to January 2012
  Jan 13, 2012
• Arbitral tribunal calls for hearings to discuss what Ecuador should do to help block enforcement of $18 Billion environmental judgment against Chevron
  Jan 09, 2012
• In ignominious footnote to ICSID case, foreign investor is convicted of crimes against humanity
  Nov 02, 2011
• Investor in Bulgarian refinery asks arbitral tribunal to weigh new evidence that a competitor may have secured state favour via the payment of bribes
  Oct 04, 2011
• Adjudicators diverge in concurrent claims over Sri Lankan oil hedge contract, as a third related claim at ICSID heads into hearings
  Aug 19, 2011
• Mining arbitration between foreign investor and government takes an unusual turn, as a defence counsel steps into role of witness
  Jun 30, 2011
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators in Mexican concession dispute reject DCF and non-DCF valuation approaches in favour of award of lost chance
  Apr 26, 2011
• Mexico found liable for termination of vehicle registry program; allegations that registry director was Argentine war criminal overshadowed case, but were not central to treaty arbitrations
  Apr 21, 2011
• Arbitrators hold Russia liable for engineering the confiscation of Yukos, but decline to reward hedge fund for “speculative” last-minute purchase of shares in doomed oil company
  Jan 13, 2011
• Arbitrators uphold jurisdiction over investor claim against Slovakia; dispute over health insurance investments not derailed by Slovak accession to the European Union
  Nov 04, 2010
• ANALYSIS: ECT’s stability clause does not immunize foreign investors from legal changes in Hungary; arbitrators see no clash between ECT and Hungary’s EU law obligations
  Sep 28, 2010
• Intra-EU BIT cannot be relied upon by EU national for purposes of suing another EU state, says European Commission to arbitral tribunal
  Aug 05, 2010
• Preliminary Objections cleared away in Pacific Rim's CAFTA mining claim, more battles over jurisdiction may loom
  Aug 05, 2010
• Arbitrators ask European Commission to weigh in on intra-EU BIT validity as states continue to plead that such treaties lapsed upon EU entry
  Jun 27, 2010
• Chevron requests interim measures in arbitration with Ecuador
  Apr 22, 2010
• Analysis: What happens in the aftermath of the NY District Court ruling in Ecuador v. Chevron?
  Mar 11, 2010
• Some arbitrators eschew counsel work but for various reasons
  Feb 25, 2010
• Tribunal declines to remove counsel in ICSID case against Romania; two earlier cases saw similar dilemma
  Jan 16, 2010
• Arbitrators selected to hear contentious El Salvador mining arbitration; claimant’s nominee chosen in parallel arbitration
  Nov 30, 2009
• Eureko settles one claim with Poland, but quietly pursues a separate health insurance suit against the Slovak Republic
  Oct 14, 2009
• Award in RSM v. Grenada arbitration is released; separate contract claim by RSM pending against Central African Republic
  Apr 02, 2009
• ICSID preliminary objection is raised by Venezuela in dispute with US investor over telecoms dispute
  Jan 05, 2009
• Barrister may not appear as counsel for state in arbitration where another member of chambers sits on tribunal
  Nov 25, 2008
• Merits claims in Plama v. Bulgaria fail; investor complained of environmental and tax liabilities, and worker “riots”
  Sep 17, 2008
• Bulgaria exonerated of Energy Charter Treaty breaches; misrepresentations by Plama Consortium Ltd are fatal to case
  Sep 17, 2008
• Argentina prevails in large part in financial crisis dispute with insurance company; Most actions excused by necessity
  Sep 08, 2008
• Challenge to ICSID arbitrator fails on basis of alleged lack of independence arising from concurrent arbitral appointments by the same government
  Jun 18, 2008