Matter
Riverside Coffee, LLC v. Republic of Nicaragua (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/16)
- 27 June 2022United States
27 June 2022United States
Procedural Order No. 1
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal established the applicable arbitration rules and procedural framework, including provisions for the conduct, transparency, evidence, hearings, and publication of the proceeding.
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4 days later · 4 days
- 1 July 2022United States
1 July 2022United States
Procedural Order No. 2
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal adopted the procedural calendar attached to the order, including dates for written submissions, the hearing, and the Award.
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1 month and 8 days later · 39 days
- 9 August 2022United States
9 August 2022United States
Procedural Order No. 3
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal dismissed the Respondent's request to publish only redacted versions of the Notice of Intent and Notice of Arbitration.
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4 months and 10 days later · 132 days
- 19 December 2022United States
19 December 2022United States
Procedural Order No. 4
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal dismissed the Claimant's request concerning the Court Order and disclosure of related files, rejected the request to supplement the Memorial, and reserved costs.
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29 days later · 29 days
- 17 January 2023United States
17 January 2023United States
Procedural Order No. 5
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- Decision summary
- The Tribunal adopted the revised procedural calendar attached to the order.
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4 months and 12 days later · 132 days
- 29 May 2023United States
29 May 2023United States
Procedural Order No. 6
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal ruled on the Parties' contested document production requests and directed production, privilege-log steps, and related document lists in accordance with its annexes.
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6 months and 21 days later · 205 days
- 20 December 2023United States
20 December 2023United States
Procedural Order No. 7
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal denied the Respondent's application for security for costs, denied its request for a further document-production order, and reserved costs.
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27 days later · 27 days
- 16 January 2024United States
16 January 2024United States
Procedural Order No. 8
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal ordered that the hearing take place in person in Washington, D.C. from 1 to 12 July 2024 and directed the Parties to begin visa applications for hearing participants based in Nicaragua.
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3 months and 6 days later · 97 days
- 22 April 2024United States
22 April 2024United States
Procedural Order No. 9
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal denied most of the Claimant's procedural requests, permitted a strictly limited responsive submission on one issue, restricted unsolicited procedural motions, reserved costs, and fixed the deadline for comments on the United States submission.
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1 month and 29 days later · 59 days
- 20 June 2024United States
20 June 2024United States
Procedural Order No. 10
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal ordered that the hearing be open to the public by live-streaming, having regard to Article 10.21(2) of the DR-CAFTA.
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4 days later · 4 days
- 24 June 2024United States
24 June 2024United States
Procedural Order No. 11 on the Organization of the Hearing
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal directed the organization, schedule, time allocation, witness and expert examination, documents, recording, transcription, interpretation, transparency, and participation arrangements for the hearing.
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1 year, 3 months and 23 days later · 480 days
- 17 October 2025United States
17 October 2025United States
Award of the Tribunal dated 17 October 2025
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal determined that it had jurisdiction over the Claimant's claims, rejected the claims for lack of merit, ordered the Parties to bear and equally share the Tribunal fees and expenses and the costs of the ICSID facilities, ordered the Claimant to pay the Respondent's costs of the proceeding in the amount of USD 8,240,445.86, and denied all other claims and requests for relief.
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35 participantsRiverside Coffee, LLC
- Representative
- Barry Appleton (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Cristina Cardenas (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Lillian De Pena (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Joseph Garvey (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Edward M. Mullins (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Alan Bart (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- William Hill (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Melva Jo Winger de Rondon (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
- Representative
- Carlos Rondon (For: Riverside Coffee, LLC)
Republic of Nicaragua
- Representative
- Wendy Morales Urbina (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Hernaldo Chamorro (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Erwin Ramirez Colindres (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Analia Gonzalez (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Paul Levine (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Nahila Cortes (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- James J. East, Jr. (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Fabian Zetina (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Jillian Timko (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Diego Zuniga (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Marco Molina (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
- Representative
- Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky (For: Republic of Nicaragua)
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- Arbitrator
- Veijo Heiskanen
- Arbitrator
- Philippe Couvreur
- Arbitrator
- Lucy Greenwood
- Tribunal secretary
- Ana Constanza Conover Blancas
- Tribunal secretary
- Sara Marzal Yetano
Other
- Expert
- Vimal Kotecha
- Expert
- Justin Wolfe
- Expert
- Timothy H. Hart
- Expert
- Kenneth J. Kratovil
- Expert
- Byron I. Sequeira
- Expert
- Renaldy J. Gutierrez