Robert Volterra - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Robert Volterra

• Analysis: Tribunal majority in Muszynianka v. Slovakia applied proportionality analysis to find that Slovakia’s constitutional amendment on water resources did not breach the Poland-Slovakia BIT; all three arbitrators found fault with certain administrative delays, but damages claim foundered due to lack of causation
  Oct 30, 2020
• Costs award in favour of North Macedonia survives set-aside in Switzerland
  Oct 30, 2020
• UNCITRAL award in mineral water dispute with Slovakia comes to light
  Oct 29, 2020
• Breaking: Arbitrators in Slovakian mineral water dispute find that the permit process breached the FET and non-impairment standards, but causation is wanting; tribunal splits on assessment of Constitutional Amendment
  Oct 07, 2020
• Balkans Round-Up: An update on disputes against Albania, Bosnia, Greece, North Macedonia and Romania
  May 15, 2020
• Westwater v. Turkey tribunal declines bifurcation request, but arbitrators disagree on bifurcation of cooling-off period objection
  Apr 30, 2020
• Spain applies for annulment of RREEF award
  Apr 15, 2020
• Turkey round-up: an update on developments in the Ipek, Cascade and Westwater Resources BIT arbitrations
  Feb 03, 2020
• In final RREEF v. Spain award, arbitrators award close to €60 million in compensation for failure to provide a reasonable rate of return
  Dec 17, 2019
• Tribunals constituted in ICSID cases against Qatar and Turkey
  May 03, 2019
• In RREEF v. Spain, dissenting arbitrator Robert Volterra finds ECT breaches beyond mere failure to provide a reasonable rate of return, and criticizes majority’s support for tribunal-appointed damages expert
  Apr 08, 2019
• A new Spain ruling surfaces, revealing that tribunal majority sees a more limited legitimate expectation: to reasonable rate of return for energy investors, but not to broader regulatory stability
  Mar 17, 2019
• An overview of our reporting from September-December 2018
  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
• Crowded out of spotlight due to myriad of high-profile claims against Indian state, a series of BIT claims by Indian investors advance with less fanfare
  Sep 24, 2018
• After ECJ ruling in Achmea case, a Kaufmann-Kohler chaired tribunal rejects a belated bifurcation bid in Spoldzielnia Pracy “Muszynianka” v. Slovakia case
  May 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
• Looking Back: in Eastern Sugar v Czech Republic case, inconsistent regulation targeted at foreign investor leads to a breach of fair and equitable treatment standard
  Oct 21, 2017
• Tribunal is finalized to hear claim by Russian investor against Ukraine over alleged expropriation of chocolate factory  
  Jun 06, 2017
• Czech Republic defeats UK BIT claims over alleged failings in 2008 privatisation process; Griffith/Volterra/Crawford consider umbrella clause and MFN arguments
  Mar 02, 2017
• Kaufmann-Kohler tapped to chair UNCITRAL BIT arbitration arising out of mineral water export scheme
  Feb 17, 2017
• Spain solar claims update: jurisdictional ruling comes down in an ICSID case, as a pair of awards loom - and two more ECT arbitrations get under way
  Jul 04, 2016
• The Czech Republic: updates on fifteen investment treaty disputes
  May 24, 2016
• Czech Republic: Govt releases cache of BIT awards, strives to collect costs orders, and currently faces eleven pending treaty claims
  Feb 24, 2015
• Arbitrators hearing UNCITRAL claim by Canadian investor that accuses Barbados of presiding over harm to nature sanctuary
  Feb 13, 2015
• INVESTIGATION: Intervention by EU Commission - and expression of doubts on enforceability - preceded investor's decision to drop intra-EU BIT claim
  Oct 21, 2014
• Arbitrators finalized for Dagher v. Sudan, African Petroleum v. Gambia, more Spain solar cases, and Rose Levy v. Peru annulment committee
  Aug 17, 2014
• As with earlier Argentine cases, avalanche of claims against Spain look set to be resolved by diversely-composed arbitral tribunals
  Jul 15, 2014