Laurent Aynes - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Laurent Aynes

• Paris Court of Appeal upholds denial of justice award against Senegal, sees no bar against claims by dual nationals in underlying BIT
  Oct 14, 2021
• Western Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration-related developments involving Senegal, Angola, and Ghana
  Sep 20, 2021
• OIC Round-Up: New developments in two cases involving Libya, and an under-the-radar arbitration involving Lebanon
  Mar 09, 2021
• West Africa Round-Up: An update on arbitration disputes involving Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Ghana
  Mar 09, 2021
• Uncovered: Kaufmann-Kohler chaired tribunal confirms that OIC Agreement contains consent to arbitration, but ultimately dismisses mining claims on the merits
  Feb 17, 2021
• Looking Back: Tribunal in Champion Trading v. Egypt ruled that dual nationals cannot take their home state to ICSID arbitration, but may bring claims through a foreign company under their control
  Feb 11, 2021
• West Africa Round-Up: Two awards, one new tribunal, four new cases
  Jan 29, 2021
• OIC round up: An update on pending arbitration cases lodged under the OIC Investment Agreement
  Aug 11, 2020
• UNCITRAL tribunal upholds denial of justice claim against Senegal
  Jul 22, 2020
• Greek shipyard arbitration sees yet another arbitrator challenge, this time directed at Juan Fernandez Armesto - but Greece fails in bid to replace chair
  May 14, 2020
• Analysis: Aynes-chaired ICC tribunal finds that state validly terminated public-private partnership, and rejects corruption allegations
  Mar 18, 2020
• ICSID ad hoc committee extends stay of enforcement of Caratube II award, referring to the claimants’ conduct relative to previous arbitration
  Dec 19, 2019
• Caratube v. Kazakhstan (II): Parties resume previously-suspended annulment proceedings; an ICSID ad hoc committee is formed, with Eduardo Zuleta tapped to chair
  Sep 26, 2019
• In ConocoPhillips’s second ICC arbitration against PdVSA, tribunal uses amiable compositeur powers to find that Venezuela should repay loan – but other contractual claims are dismissed
  Aug 09, 2019
• In second ICC arbitration against Venezuela’s PDVSA, ConocoPhillips is awarded only $54 million (US), including interest
  Aug 05, 2019
• Investigation: four previously-confidential claims under OIC Investment Agreement are uncovered, as controversy continues over treaty's use in arbitration
  May 16, 2019
• BIT tribunal renders interim measures so that businessman can return home for health treatment; final award now looms in UNCITRAL proceeding
  May 14, 2019
• Kazakhstan seeks to annul unfavourable arbitral award from Caratube International Oil Company case
  Feb 05, 2018
• In jurisdiction discussion in Caratube v. Kazakhstan II case, arbitrators grapple with res judicata effects of first ICSID award, see a contractual basis for new claims, and consider 1994 foreign investment law
  Oct 01, 2017
• At merits stage of Caratube II case, majority of tribunal sees an unlawful expropriation of oil contract rights, following from shifting political winds
  Oct 01, 2017
• In their assessment of damages for expropriation of oil contract rights, arbitrators see no basis for lost-profits award or moral damages and instead reimburse Caratube for its sunk costs
  Oct 01, 2017
• U.S. investors in overseas cotton venture pursue a new arbitration against Egypt
  Feb 01, 2016
• Tribunal weighs in with a ruling in Caratube v. Kazakhstan case on highly-charged request for provisional measures focused on murder investigations
  Dec 30, 2014
• Appearance of possible prejudgment of key issues leads to unprecedented disqualification of ICSID arbitrator at the hands of colleagues
  Mar 20, 2014
• Claimants seek to disqualify arbitrator chosen by Kazakhstan in high-stakes energy arbitration
  Feb 03, 2014
• Arbitrators picked for Venezuela, Costa Rica and Kazakhstan cases, and replacement is named after disqualification in Burlington v. Ecuador
  Jan 13, 2014