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Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and Others v. Kingdom of Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/45)

Case no.
ARB/15/45
Applicable rules
ICSID Arbitration Rules in force as of April 2006
  1. 15 December 2020Arbitration

    15 December 2020Arbitration

    Decision on the Second Proposal to Disqualify All Members of the Tribunal

    International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

    Decision summary
    The Chair of the ICSID Administrative Council rejected the Respondent's second proposal to disqualify all members of the Tribunal. The first ground was timely but rejected on the merits; the second ground was untimely and, in any event, rejected in its entirety.

    Supporting details

    5 authorities · 9 participants
    Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
    HSH Nordbank AG
    Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale
    Norddeutsche Landesbank-Girozentrale
    Kingdom of Spain
    International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
    Institutional administrator
    David Malpass
    Arbitrator
    Charles Poncet

    Authorities cited

    5
    • Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention, 18 March 1965)
      statute
    • Energy Charter Treaty
      statute
    • Blue Bank International & Trust (Barbados) Ltd. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/20, Annulment Proceeding, Decision on the Proposal to Disqualify Mr. Alvaro Castellanos Howell, 2 March 2018)
      case-law
    • BSG Resources Limited, BSG Resources (Guinea) Limited and BSG Resources (Guinea) SARL v. Republic of Guinea (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/22, Decision on the Proposal to Disqualify All Members of the Arbitral Tribunal, 28 December 2016)
      case-law
    • Vattenfall AB and Others v. Federal Republic of Germany (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12, Decision of the Chairman of the Administrative Council, 8 July 2020)
      case-law

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