Deva Villanua - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Deva Villanua

• Analysis: ICSID tribunal hearing arbitration under Argentina-USA BIT allows USA to file NDP submission, but rejects request for access to case documents
  Mar 13, 2025
• ICSID tribunal rules on request for rectification of award that ordered Colombia to pay indemnity for future damages
  Feb 06, 2025
• ICSID tribunals are in place to hear two high-stakes mining arbitrations against Panama
  Dec 11, 2024
• ICSID tribunal declines Argentina’s request to bifurcate jurisdictional objections in real estate arbitration, and clarifies standard for redaction of documents under 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules
  Oct 18, 2024
• SCC arbitration against Ukraine resumes; tribunal is now in place
  Oct 03, 2024
• Analysis: Tribunal hearing treaty arbitration stemming from highway dispute with Argentina dismisses state’s request for bifurcation
  Sep 10, 2024
• Analysis: In South32 v. Colombia, full tribunal upholds jurisdiction and finds BIT breaches through contradictory state conduct, but arbitrators disagree on unprecedented decision to impose indemnity for future damages
  Jul 08, 2024
• Revealed: UNCITRAL tribunal hearing real estate dispute with Panama finds that claimants made prima facie case on the merits and claims fall within provisions governing succession between two treaties
  Jul 05, 2024
• Tribunal hearing mining royalty dispute with Colombia unanimously upholds jurisdiction and finds BIT breaches; tribunal majority orders state to pay indemnity for future damages, while dissenter finds that indemnity unduly interferes with state’s sovereignty
  Jun 24, 2024
• UNCITRAL tribunal upholds jurisdiction over real estate development dispute with Panama
  Jun 19, 2024
• Three are in place to hear contract-based airport dispute with Honduras
  Feb 19, 2024
• Deva Villanúa is tapped to chair two treaty arbitrations against Argentina
  Nov 27, 2023
• Analysis: In Air Canada v. Venezuela, ICSID tribunal upheld jurisdiction over treaty claims and awarded 20 million USD in damages for breach of legitimate expectations
  Oct 12, 2023
• Shortly before leaving office, ICSID Chair rejects request for disqualification of Raul Vinuesa from billion-dollar election technology arbitration against Venezuela
  Jun 01, 2023
• Revealed: Tribunal in Leopoldo Castillo Bozo v. Panama upholds jurisdiction over beneficiary of trust and finds that acts of liquidators are attributable to the state, but majority dismisses claims on the merits
  May 29, 2023
• [Updated] Panama is facing investment arbitration over real estate development venture; tribunal is already in place, with Deva Villanua sitting as chair
  May 17, 2023
• Analysis: ICC tribunal majority dismisses 1.8 billion EUR construction claim against Venezuela and its national railway institute, finding no consent to arbitrate under the 2001 Cooperation Framework Agreement between Italy and Venezuela
  May 12, 2023
• Deva Villanua is tapped to chair high-stakes treaty arbitration stemming from electronic voting system dispute with Venezuela; details regarding claim come to light
  Mar 08, 2023
• [Updated] UNCITRAL tribunal dismisses treaty-based insurance arbitration against Panama
  Jan 24, 2023
• [Updated] Construction arbitration against Panama is discontinued
  Jul 25, 2022
• Venezuela is facing arbitration over railway construction venture
  Apr 08, 2022
• Three are in place to hear investor’s bid to annul mining award in dispute with Costa Rica
  Jan 07, 2022
• TECO v. Guatemala resubmission annulment committee accepts evidence that was not submitted in the underlying arbitration
  Oct 11, 2021
• Tribunal in Air Canada v. Venezuela finds FET and free transfer violations, but awards only a fraction of the damages claimed
  Sep 15, 2021
• ICSID ad hoc committee hearing latest chapter of TECO v. Guatemala saga orders continuation of stay of enforcement
  May 25, 2021
• An ICSID annulment committee is in place to hear Guatemala’s bid to annul resubmission award in long-running electricity arbitration
  Apr 01, 2021
• ICSID tribunal decides that it lacks the power to enjoin Panama from liquidating a performance guarantee under the terms of the Panama-US TPA
  Feb 25, 2021
• Three are in place to hear dispute over Panamanian construction venture
  Dec 14, 2020
• Three are in place to hear claims in Colombian mining dispute
  Nov 18, 2020
• Panama round-up: One new claim, two new tribunals, and three arbitrations about to conclude
  Apr 02, 2020
• Pierre Tercier selected to chair Air Canada v. Venezuela ICSID arbitration
  Sep 28, 2017