Hamid Gharavi will speak on “the legal authority of sanction regulations through the prism of international arbitrators” during the International Arbitration and Economic Sanctions conference that will take place in Zürich on 24 September 2015.
The Kingdom of Netherlands has appointed Melanie van Leeuwen to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators.
Yves Derains will speak on “The actual experience of negotiators and arbitrators” during the Towards a transnational approach for choice-of-law clauses conference organised by the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the AIA & the ICC Italy. A presentation of the ICC Study on “Developing neutral legal standards for international contracts”, will also be made. The event will take place in Rome on 11 September 2015.
Derains & Gharavi obtained on 30 March 2015 another Award in favor of the Republic of Albania, dismissing all claims amounting to approximately USD 48 million for lack of merits (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/24). The claims were brought by a Greek petroleum company under the Greek-Albanian BIT and the ECT for the alleged expropriation and unfair treatment of an investment in an oil container terminal in Albania’s Port of Durres. Please click here to read the full Award and here to read the dissenting opinion. This is the third victory the firm secured out of the three cases it has handled for the Republic of Albania before ICSID. Its first victory for the Republic of Albania was against Pantechniki and concerned the alleged unfair treatment and denial of justice against an investment in the construction industry (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/21). Its second win was against Burimi S.r.l. and Eagle Games Sh.a., concerning the alleged expropriation of a gambling permit (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/18).
The latest win for the Republic of Albania marks the firm’s ninth victory in ICSID arbitration out of nine cases so far, providing the firm to date with an uninterrupted track-record in arbitrations before ICSID (Pantechniki v. Republic of Albania (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/21), Saba Fakes v. Republic of Turkey (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/20), Investors DLP v. Republic of Yemen (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/17), Rumeli/Telsim v. Republic of Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/16), Lemire v. Republic of Ukraine (ICSID Case No. ARB/06/18), Burimi S.r.l. and Eagle Games Sh.a. v. Republic of Albania, Arif v. Republic of Moldova (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/23) and Lahoud et al. v. the Democratic Republic of Congo (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/4)).
Yves Derains will speak on “Le rôle des parties et du tribunal arbitral : la conférence sur la gestion de la procédure et la gestion du temps et des coûts” during the ICC France conference dedicated to “Le règlement d’arbitrage de la CCI 2012 : trois ans d’application” in Paris, on 23 June 2015.