Gaetan Verhoosel - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Gaetan Verhoosel

• Analysis: Tribunal majority in B-Mex v. Mexico finds that regulator shut down investors’ business based on “political predisposition”, thus breaching NAFTA’s fair and equitable treatment standard
  Sep 13, 2024
• [Updated with Award] Mexico is found liable for FET breach (but not for denial of justice) in long-running NAFTA dispute with gaming investors
  Aug 29, 2024
• Analysis: Tribunal hearing highway dispute with City of Lima rules out corruption allegations; concessionaire’s counterclaims are partially upheld, leading to 40 million USD compensation
  May 15, 2024
• Tribunal hearing highway dispute with Lima dismisses the city’s corruption allegations and upholds investor’s counterclaims; parallel ICSID proceedings remain ongoing
  Apr 19, 2024
• [Updated with a copy of the Decision] Parties in airport arbitration against Peru issue diverging statements regarding ICSID tribunal’s Decision on jurisdiction, liability, and principles on quantum
  Aug 18, 2023
• Mexico fails to set aside NAFTA award at Canadian seat
  Aug 03, 2020
• Analysis: In B-Mex v. Mexico, Verhoosel and Born lay out their views on role of NAFTA Notices of Intent and consequences of some (eventual) claimants not being disclosed from outset of dispute
  Jul 24, 2019
• Analysis: In B-Mex v. Mexico dissent, Raul Vinuesa would have declined jurisdiction over more than two dozen claimants who were not identified in initial NAFTA Notice of Intent
  Jul 24, 2019
• Divided NAFTA tribunal in B-Mex v. Mexico case affirms jurisdiction, and awards claimants some of its legal costs in a partial award
  Jul 22, 2019
• Arbitrator Gaetan Verhoosel steps aside after challenge
  Jan 23, 2019
• Challenge is filed against Three Crowns attorney sitting on BIT tribunal
  Jan 16, 2019
• Lucinda Low tapped to chair tribunal that will hear BIT claim over cancellation of concession
  Jan 04, 2019
• Ukraine round-up: Philip Morris BIT threat leads to settlement of dispute; an update on five other pending investment arbitrations
  Dec 05, 2018
• NAFTA Tribunal of Verhoosel, Born and Vinuesa reverts to parties as it wrestles with meaning of a provision commonly seen in U.S. investment treaties
  Nov 27, 2018
• Analysis: In a striking new award, ICSID tribunal rules that Achmea judgment does not cast shadow over ICSID-based arbitration; but efforts to empanel ad-hoc committees to review such intra-EU BIT awards keeps getting harder
  Oct 11, 2018
• Three Crowns lawyers step down from serving on arbitral panels that are charged with looking at implications of Achmea decision
  Aug 08, 2018
• Tribunal of Verhoosel, Born and Vinuesa hears jurisdictional arguments in Mexico case, and has further questions about NAFTA hurdles to bringing arbitration claim
  Jun 10, 2018
• After alleged violent assault on claimant, Igor Boyko, emergency ex parte relief is ordered by UNCITRAL BIT tribunal to protect him from further harm in Ukraine
  Dec 04, 2017
• Trio are named to hear Hungary's annulment bid in Edenred case
  Jul 23, 2017
• Tribunal is finalized to hear claim by Russian investor against Ukraine over alleged expropriation of chocolate factory  
  Jun 06, 2017
• Mexico lays out its jurisdictional objections to claims brought by US gaming sector investors, and points to allegedly conflicting ownership information submitted in US racketeering case
  Jun 05, 2017
• Gaetan Verhoosel is tapped by ICSID to chair NAFTA arbitration
  Feb 21, 2017
• After arbitrator disqualification process, ad-hoc tribunal to hear Spanish company’s investment treaty claims against Bolivia
  Mar 20, 2013