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ICSID committee dismisses requests for reconsideration of previous decisions on stay of enforcement and on Venezuela’s representation

February 17, 2023Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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ICSID Chair dismisses bid to disqualify ad hoc committee members in Conoco v. Venezuela case, following recommendation by Ian Binnie

September 28, 2022Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Arbitrators comings and goings: a new committee, a resignation, and a reconstituted tribunal

March 23, 2022Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain, Venezuela
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ICSID committee lifts stay of enforcement in high-stakes Conoco v. Venezuela dispute, finding that the investors have provided adequate guarantees against risk of non-recoupment

October 4, 2021Annulment and Court Review of Awards, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Investors withdraw bid to revise Eiser v. Spain annulment decision, but hint at resubmission proceedings

June 7, 2021Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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ICSID ad hoc committee members dismiss disqualification proposal in Eiser v. Spain post-annulment battle

April 28, 2021Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Ad hoc committee in ConocoPhillips v. Venezula lifts stay of enforcement, but asks for guarantees against risk of non-recoupment in light of US sanctions; request to reconsider representation decision is dismissed

November 3, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Eiser claimants challenge chair of ICSID ad hoc committee tasked with deciding their request for a supplementary decision

September 1, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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[Updated with new document] Investors seek supplementary decision from Eiser v. Spain ad hoc committee

August 1, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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ICSID declines disqualification proposal arising out of “Solomonic solution” to the problem of Venezuela’s representation

July 28, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Analysis: Eiser v. Spain annulment committee stresses its role as guardian of the ICSID system, imposes a “high” bar for double hatting, and finds that numerous undisclosed past and present connections between an arbitrator and the claimants’ quantum experts warrants annulment of the underlying award

June 12, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Breaking: 128+ million EUR Spanish renewables award is annulled, as ad-hoc committee finds fault with arbitrator’s undisclosed relationship to claimants’ damages experts

June 11, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union, Spain
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Venezuela proposes disqualification of all three ICSID ad hoc committee members in long-running ConocoPhillips case

April 19, 2020Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Arbitrator Challenges and Recusals, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank), Venezuela
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Analysis: in Exxon-Mobil vs. Argentina case, ad hoc committee saw an excess of powers by underlying tribunal, but not a manifest one; committee also picked a side in debate over scope for committees to review arbitrator DQ decisions

June 5, 2019Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Argentina, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank)
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Another expensive setback for Argentina, as Exxon-Mobil finally prevails in long-running BIT arbitration over gas distribution and export business

May 31, 2019Annulment and Court Review of Awards, Argentina, Energy Disputes, ICSID (World Bank)
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ICSID annulment committee allows European Commission to intervene in an ECT case, but limits intervention to EC’s complaint about earlier tribunal’s decision to oblige amicus curiae to make costs undertakings

March 26, 2019Amicus Curiae Interventions, Energy Charter Treaty, ICSID (World Bank), Intra-European Union
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Analysis: Churchill & Planet Mining v. Indonesia annulment committee finds that parties’ discovery obligations can be limited by domestic law on confidentiality, and that procedural orders are outside a committee’s mandate

March 24, 2019Annulment and Court Review of Awards, ICSID (World Bank), Mining Disputes
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