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Analysis: Annulment committee in RWE v. Spain sees no manifest excess of powers or failure to state reasons in ECT award that upheld jurisdiction over intra-EU dispute and declined to apply EU law on the merits

April 16, 2024Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Analysis: In now-public decision, ICSID ad hoc committee rejected bid to annul award that dismissed first Highbury v. Venezuela arbitration for lack of proof of ownership over investment

February 8, 2024Annulment and Court Review of Awards, ICSID (World Bank), Mining Disputes, Venezuela
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Analysis: Cube v. Spain committee emphasizes limited scope for new arguments in annulment proceedings and dismisses the state’s annulment bid

April 4, 2022Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Another ICSID case involving Spanish renewables is discontinued following the adoption of Spain’s new incentives regime

February 1, 2021Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Analysis: Blue Bank v. Venezuela ad hoc committee upholds finding that a trustee did not qualify as investor since it merely managed the trust’s assets

September 11, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Reasons surface why Cube v. Spain committee declined the EC’s request to intervene as amicus curiae, and lifted the stay of enforcement of the award

June 26, 2020Amicus Curiae Interventions, Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Payment of Awards, Spain
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Familiar faces are tapped to hear investors’ bid to annul unfavourable award in Spanish renewables dispute

May 14, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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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

September 11, 2019Annulment and Court Review of Awards, ICSID (World Bank), Round-Ups, Venezuela
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Venezuela’s bid to annul $500 million award fails; committee finds that it can’t review alleged partiality of arbitrator

December 17, 2018Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Disqualification decision surfaces in Blue Bank v. Venezuela, clarifying reasons why Castellanos Howell survived challenge; repeat appointments by ICSID raise no doubts over impartiality

March 14, 2018Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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ICSID selects Castellanos Howell to preside over another Venezuela annulment process, even as country seeks to have him removed from panels reviewing unfavourable awards

January 5, 2018Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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