Claus Von Wobeser - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Claus Von Wobeser

• Three are in place to hear claims under the Chile-France BIT
  Mar 29, 2022
• Dominican Republic claims victory in under-the-radar treaty arbitration
  Oct 06, 2021
• Three are named to hear telecoms claim against Iraq
  Jul 14, 2021
• Tribunal is in place to hear mining claim
  Apr 05, 2021
• Ecuador is facing a renewed contract-based arbitration claim by former Petrobras subsidiary; tribunal already in place
  Mar 29, 2021
• TECO v. Guatemala saga continues, as the state files for annulment of resubmission award and seeks to focus attention on links between arbitrator and expert
  Feb 24, 2021
• French Cour de cassation allows applicants to submit new jurisdictional arguments at the annulment stage, and opens the way for a renewed review of the Schooner v. Poland award
  Dec 04, 2020
• Panama Canal consortium initiates set-aside proceedings against commercial award, alleging failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest
  Dec 01, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Switzerland seeks applicants for ICSID panels, the UK reveals its panel nominees, and Egypt arbitration sees new chair
  Nov 23, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: Three replacements and one resignation
  Oct 22, 2020
• Bernardo Cremades tapped to chair second Glencore v. Colombia arbitration
  Sep 17, 2020
• Breaking: Resubmission tribunal in TECO v. Guatemala case awards additional damages in long-running electricity distribution dispute
  May 14, 2020
• UNCITRAL tribunal orders Paraguay to refrain from calling on contractual guarantees, and orders the claimant to post security
  May 13, 2020
• Three are in place to hear second arbitration arising out of Egyptian gas pipeline dispute
  Apr 20, 2020
• Hungary fails to annul award in favour of French investor at ICSID
  Mar 11, 2020
• Analysis: In Besserglik v. Mozambique, arbitrators found insufficient evidence that the Mozambique-South Africa BIT ever entered into force
  Nov 19, 2019
• Mozambique prevails in two investment treaty arbitrations in a week
  Oct 30, 2019
• Looking Back: In Vieira v. Chile, von Wobeser-chaired tribunal found by majority that claims did not fall under temporal scope of Chile-Spain BIT
  Sep 19, 2019
• Venezuela round-up: ICSID ad hoc committee rejects annulment bid in Highbury case, a new chair is named for Saint Patrick case, and another annulment proceeding is discontinued
  Sep 11, 2019
• Tribunal is in place in Egyptian real estate dispute, with Pierre Tercier tapped to chair
  Aug 06, 2019
• Three are in place to hear Enagas dispute over Peruvian gas pipeline project
  Jul 21, 2019
• Looking Back: Inceysa v. El Salvador tribunal sees a legality requirement for foreign investors and stresses international law principle of good faith
  Jul 03, 2019
• Analysis: French Appeals Court refuses to set aside Ryan & Schooner v. Poland award, seeing no reason to overturn tribunal's reading of BIT's tax carve-out and its handling of FET & discrimination claims
  Apr 04, 2019
• An update on under-the-radar arbitral rulings that address Achmea objection
  Jan 13, 2019
• Poland investment treaty claims round-up: an update on new claims, progress of ongoing cases, and enforcement/set-aside actions
  Nov 16, 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
• ANALYSIS: Annulment committee in Standard Chartered v. TANESCO says ICSID tribunal can reconsider earlier jurisdictional decisions under Kompetenz-Kompetenz power
  Aug 24, 2018
• In new ruling, ICSID annulment committee upholds $150+ million award
  Aug 23, 2018
• U.S. claimant Schooner Capital seeks set aside of award in favour of Poland
  Apr 25, 2018
• Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID's leadership
  Sep 17, 2017
• Looking Back: In pioneering Azinian v. Mexico award, NAFTA tribunal dismissed claim on its merits, chastised claimants for investor misconduct and offered early analysis of the denial of justice standard
  Sep 06, 2017
• In newly-unearthed Energy Charter Treaty award (Isolux v. Spain), arbitrators grapple with denial of benefits, nationality planning, tax carve-out and EU law issues
  Jun 29, 2017
• In now-public Isolux v. Spain award, measures that later breached investor protections in Eiser case were not deemed to breach Isolux's legitimate expectations
  Jun 29, 2017
• Spain's arbitral winning streak comes to a halt, as ICSID tribunal awards 128 million euro (plus interest) for changes made in solar sector
  May 05, 2017
• ICSID Annulment Round-Up: requests filed in relation to awards involving Italy, Hungary, Argentina and Venezuela
  May 03, 2017
• New faces will hear resubmitted claim for higher damages in Teco v. Guatemala case, with Vaughan Lowe now in the chair
  Feb 12, 2017
• In new award, arbitrators disagree whether claims should be nixed due to overlap with local cases; dissenter critiques party-appointments, and challenge arises when tribunal secretary joins respondent's law firm
  Feb 01, 2017
• Costa Rica secures dismissal of Spanish investor's claims on admissibility grounds
  Jan 25, 2017
• French investor wins 23 million EUR under France-Hungary BIT
  Dec 16, 2016
• ANALYSIS: where do matters stand with respect to Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain?
  Sep 28, 2016
• In newly-released award, majority reads US treaty's tax exception provision as foreclosing FET claims; arbitrators consider overlap of jurisdiction with double taxation treaty
  Jul 26, 2016
• On merits, arbitrators disagree as to Poland's liability in relation to tax authorities' handling of tax audits and treatment of transfer pricing conduct
  Jul 26, 2016
• ICSID ad-hoc committee finds fault with CAFTA Tribunal's approach to quantum in Guatemala case, anulling several damages and costs holdings
  Apr 06, 2016
• Effort to disqualify arbitral tribunal in Costa Rica case is rejected by ICSID
  Mar 09, 2016
• In-depth: exploring the reasons why an ICSID annulment committee has declined Romania's bid to annul Micula award
  Feb 28, 2016
• European Commission's arguments before Micula annulment committee are dismissed, but E.C. says that its non-enforceability arguments are gaining purchase in member-state courts
  Feb 28, 2016
• Breaking: Controversial arbitral award against Romania is upheld, thus affirming $250+ million compensation for Micula brothers
  Feb 26, 2016
• An update on three investment treaty claims against Hungary
  Feb 24, 2016
• UPDATED: Spain prevails on merits in first of many Energy Charter Treaty claims in the solar sector
  Jan 25, 2016
• Recent post-award developments in the Micula v. Romania I case
  Sep 10, 2015
• Claimant files challenge to entire tribunal in ICSID case against Costa Rica, as state requests discontinuance of separate case amid investor’s bankruptcy
  Jul 31, 2015
• Poland claims round-up: at least a dozen investment treaty arbitrations
  Jul 29, 2015
• Ecuador in midst of UNCITRAL arbitration following spurning by Petrobras and partners of migration to "service agreements"
  May 04, 2015
• Southern Africa: updates on Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and Zimbabwe investment disputes
  Feb 04, 2015
• As Micula brothers sue European Commission, an ICSID Ad-Hoc Committee weighs in on EC's latest plea to be heard in Micula v. Romania
  Dec 10, 2014
• European Commission wades into solar arbitrations against Spain, intervening in one case a week before final hearings
  Nov 17, 2014
• Stay is lifted on $250 million ICSID award after Romania fails to give assurance that award would be paid in the event of non-annulment
  Oct 08, 2014
• Brussels' latest intervention casts shadow over investment treaty arbitrations brought by jilted solar energy investors
  Sep 08, 2014
• New twists in EU injunction of Romania: European Commission offers more details, as ICSID ad-hoc committee gives Romania an ultimatum
  Aug 19, 2014
• European Commission enjoins Romania from paying ICSID award, thus throwing a wrench into enforcement of intra-EU BIT ruling
  Aug 07, 2014
• As with earlier Argentine cases, avalanche of claims against Spain look set to be resolved by diversely-composed arbitral tribunals
  Jul 15, 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
• ICSID panelists in place in Courts v. Madagascar arbitration and Micula v. Romania (annulment) proceedings
  May 15, 2014
• Argentina-Repsol settlement pact stipulates that ICSID won't be used for any future arbitrations
  Apr 30, 2014
• Tribunals finalized in UNCITRAL and SCC claims arising out of solar-power controversies
  Apr 17, 2014
• Arbitrators named for claim by Greek shareholders in Cypriot bank and for claim by French investor against Hungary
  Mar 19, 2014
• Guatemala breached CAFTA due to arbitrary, non-transparent setting of electricity tariffs; bitter pill for Gov't in light of recent events
  Dec 26, 2013
• Full light is shed on the reasons for ICSID's rejection of Argentine efforts to remove arbitrators in Repsol case
  Dec 19, 2013
• Claims against Uzbekistan fail under Israeli investment treaty, as well as under 1998 law that other foreign investors are seeking to use
  Dec 05, 2013
• Testimony by foreign investor piques tribunal's curiosity as to legitimacy of consulting contracts with local fixers, and leads to unraveling of case vs. Uzbekistan
  Dec 05, 2013
• ANALYSIS: In Uzbek case, tribunal reads investment treaty's "legality" clause narrowly, but refuses to let investor use MFN clause to avoid it altogether
  Dec 05, 2013
• Uzbekistan update: Arbitrators weigh in with final award in claim under investment treaty and local legislation; tribunal ready for claim by Kazakhs
  Oct 18, 2013
• Full details emerge of Argentina’s effort to disqualify Francisco Orrego Vicuna in Repsol arbitration
  Oct 17, 2013
• Grounds for Argentine challenge to von Wobeser in Repsol case are revealed, as Argentina says it does not want ICSID or the PCA to make the call
  Oct 17, 2013
• Arbitrators decline jurisdiction over claims by Highbury and Ramstein under Dutch treaty and Venezuelan statute for expropriation of mining assets
  Sep 30, 2013
• Poland update: government grappling with at least five treaty disputes; arbitrators rule on participation of counsel in ICSID case
  Aug 09, 2013
• Ukraine pays ICSID award mere weeks after annulment committee finds no annullable errors in tribunal's analysis of causation and damages
  Aug 08, 2013
• Argentina Update: arbitrators finalized to hear Repsol’s claims for nationalization; Exxon claim proceeds to damages phase after liability ruling
  Jul 17, 2013
• ICSID annulment committees decline to annul arbitral awards in Malicorp v. Egypt and Lemire v. Ukraine
  Jul 10, 2013
• Spain round-up: twin Energy Charter claims moving at different speeds; arbitrator in third case agrees to hear jurisdictional objections first
  Jun 18, 2013
• Arbitrators frown on Spanish investor’s (Iberdrola) characterization of dispute over Guatemala electricity tariffs as an investment treaty matter
  Aug 20, 2012
• Toll highway concessionaire puts pressure on Dominican Republic to pay $42.5 million ICC arbitration award
  Aug 20, 2012
• ICSID tribunals composed in cases against Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Venezuela; Pakistan swiftly moves to challenge claimant’s nominated arbitrator
  Jul 26, 2012
• ICSID Round-Up: Arbitrators announced for claims against Albania, Guinea, Peru and Turkey annulment case
  Mar 14, 2012
• ICSID Round-up: Arbitrators named in cases against Poland, Kazakhstan and Egypt; annulment committee picked in Ukraine case
  Oct 26, 2011
• Presiding arbitrator is designated in gold and diamond mining dispute after parties fail to agree on candidate; underlying investment treaty was terminated several years ago, but claimants invoke its protections
  Jun 30, 2011
• Tribunal diverges as to the extent to which U.S.-Panama treaty permits foreign investors to challenge host country tax measures
  Mar 06, 2011
• Hungary prevails in first of three Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) arbitrations over power pricing disputes; arbitrators affirm that “politics” is not a dirty word
  Sep 28, 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
• Arbitrators selected in UNCITRAL arbitration between Bolivian investors and Republic of Ecuador
  Nov 13, 2009
• Peru prevails in arbitration over contractual stability agreement; Gov't moves to annul earlier Duke award
  Dec 17, 2008