Yves Derains interviendra sur le thème suivant : “The actual experience of negotiators and arbitrators” lors de la conférence Towards a transnational approach for choice-of-law clauses organisée par ICC Institute of World Business Law, AIA & ICC Italy. A cette occasion, l’étude CCI “Developing neutral legal standards for international contracts”, sera également présentée. Cette conférence aura lieu à Rome le 11 septembre 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 interviendra sur le thème du “rôle des parties et du tribunal arbitral : la conférence sur la gestion de la procédure et la gestion du temps et des coûts” lors de la conférence ICC France “Le Règlement d’arbitrage de la CCI 2012 : trois ans d’application” à Paris, le 23 juin 2015.
Yves Derains interviendra sur le thème suivant : “Oral Advocacy, subconscious influences and differing cultural expectations” lors de la conférence ITA Workshop 2015 dédiée à “Influences in International Arbitration“, à Dallas, les 17 et 18 juin 2015.
Hamid Gharavi interviendra lors de la conférence “Third Party Funding in International Arbitration” organisée par l’Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato (AIA), l’Université Luiss et ARBIT (Italian Forum of Arbitration and ADR) à Rome, le 18 juin 2015.