Nassib Ziade - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Nassib Ziade

• Yemen loses back-to-back arbitrations with Indian investor, in previously undisclosed ICC and UNCITRAL proceedings
  Oct 17, 2022
• Morocco prevails in arbitration with German investor
  Aug 01, 2022
• Analysis: Scherer-chaired tribunal dismisses denial of benefits objection, but declines jurisdiction after finding that claimant does not own or control investment in Cameroon
  Jan 04, 2022
• ICSID arbitration under Cameroon-USA treaty concludes with an award
  Dec 24, 2021
• US court upholds Strabag v. Libya award, finding no excess of authority in tribunal majority’s refusal to set off advance payments from the compensation owed in relation to large-scale construction projects disrupted by the Libyan revolution
  Oct 01, 2021
• ICSID tribunal declines security for costs application in financial services dispute with Cameroon; arbitrators will address forgery allegations in a dedicated hearing
  May 25, 2021
• Syrian award (and dissent) at heart of recent set-aside decision has finally surfaced
  May 20, 2021
• Disappointed claimants fail to set aside award against Syria before Swiss courts, which find that decision to award compensation in Syrian pounds did not violate public policy
  May 14, 2021
• Tribunal in Hope Services case bifurcates Cameroon’s jurisdictional objections, including a denial of benefits argument
  Apr 27, 2021
• Breaking: Paris Court finds that PCA Secretary General lacked power to step into Libya arbitration when OIC Secretary General failed to appoint arbitrator
  Mar 26, 2021
• Easing of Qatar-Saudi Arabia tensions could affect treaty-based arbitrations
  Jan 14, 2021
• Analysis: In previously unseen Turkey-Syria BIT award, majority imports a more favourable war-losses clause; in dissent Ziade warns of “exorbitant” implications of majority reading
  Nov 13, 2020
• Three are in place to hear OIC Investment Treaty arbitration taking place in shadow of Saudi-Qatari diplomatic dispute
  Oct 20, 2020
• Investigation: in confidential award, Syria is held liable for foreign investor’s war losses, after tribunal majority imports a more generous war-losses protection via BIT’s MFN clause
  Oct 19, 2020
• Analysis: Co-arbitrators in Hope Services v. Cameroon find that Pierre Mayer’s role in 1980s case against the state does not warrant his disqualification
  Sep 25, 2020
• Analysis: In Strabag v. Libya, arbitrators find violations of umbrella and war losses clauses, but disagree on Libya’s right to set off advance payments
  Sep 23, 2020
• Strabag v. Libya award comes to light
  Sep 16, 2020
• Pierre Mayer survives challenge in case against Cameroon
  Aug 24, 2020
• Libya round-up: New tribunals, a discontinuation, and further details about a number of investment arbitrations against the state
  Aug 11, 2020
• OIC round up: An update on pending arbitration cases lodged under the OIC Investment Agreement
  Aug 11, 2020
• Claimant challenges Pierre Mayer in ICSID arbitration against Cameroon
  Jul 16, 2020
• Arbitrators comings and goings: One newly-revealed tribunal in under-the-radar OIC Treaty case, and two tribunal reconstitutions
  Jul 05, 2020
• Arbitrators uphold Austrian investor's claims against Libya
  Jun 30, 2020
• Three are in place to hear claims under Cameroon-USA BIT
  Jun 26, 2020
• Metal scraps case against Morocco is allowed to go forward
  Jun 09, 2020
• Alexis Mourre to chair Scholz v. Morocco BIT arbitration
  Jul 30, 2019
• Revealed: the reasons why arbitrators in Kontinental (KCI) v. Gabon case saw breach of Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Investment Agreement, but awarded limited compensation
  Jul 09, 2019
• Foreign investor fails in bid to annul OIC investment treaty award's damages holdings
  Jun 26, 2019
• Investigation: four previously-confidential claims under OIC Investment Agreement are uncovered, as controversy continues over treaty's use in arbitration
  May 16, 2019
• ICC Court disqualifies arbitrator in bilateral investment treaty case, leading to tribunal reshuffle
  Nov 27, 2018
• Libya claims round-up: new developments under OIC treaty; Greenwood to chair a newly-filed ICC BIT case; two hearings loom in longer-running arbitrations
  May 07, 2018
• Investigation: new developments in investor-state arbitration claims under the OIC investment agreement, as Gabon beats back most of the damages claimed by Kontinental Conseil Ingenierie SARL
  Aug 10, 2017
• Syria faces another BIT arbitration, with tribunal in place and claim proceeding
  Jul 05, 2017
• Libya investment treaty claims: another claim surfaces and another tribunal is finalized
  Jun 29, 2017
• Al Jazeera seeks provisional measures in Egypt arbitration, but it remains to be seen whether either side will disclose case-materials
  Apr 07, 2017
• Investigation: As new cases emerge under Islamic investment treaty, initial viability of claims seems to hinge on willingness of respondents to appoint arbitrators
  Mar 02, 2017
• A tribunal is chosen to hear unusual investment treaty arbitration by Al Jazeera Media Network against Egypt
  Feb 23, 2017
• Libya round-up: new developments in set-aside and enforcement applications relating to billion dollar Kharafi award; tribunal in place to hear Austrian investor's claim
  Dec 21, 2015
• Canada moves to terminate NAFTA claim, after claimant fails to post funds for arbitration
  May 26, 2010
• ANALYSIS: NAFTA challenge ruling may stir debate as to implications in Energy Charter Treaty cases
  Oct 30, 2009
• Arbitrator steps down in UNCITRAL arbitration; obliged to choose between arbitrator work and Gov't advisory work
  Oct 30, 2009
• Director of Canada’s arbitration branch stepping away from role as counsel; speculation mounts she will head ICSID
  Dec 11, 2008
• After 40+ years, ICSID to have its own full-time Secretary General
  Jun 18, 2008