Region: Chile

Three casino operators have instructed counsel as they prepare to file an ICSID claim against Chile over a public tender process for casino concessions that they allege is illegal and favours competitors. 

13 November 2020

28 January 2020

28 January 2020

An ICC tribunal has ordered the majority shareholders in a Colombian bank to buy out their minority partner’s interest – in a dispute arising from a US$2 billion merger transaction spanning Brazil and Chile.

06 March 2019

04 January 2019

04 January 2019

Chile has sought ICC arbitration of a dispute with a US lithium mining company following failed attempts to agree a preferential price for a quarter of its lithium production for domestic companies.

01 November 2018

Brazilian practitioner Valeria Galíndez has been spared a court action in Chile in which she was accused of misconduct as part of a bid to overturn an ICC award she issued as sole arbitrator.

21 July 2017

Sir Franklin Berman QC faces a second challenge in the Pey Casado case at ICSID, days after recusing himself from hearing a challenge to fellow Essex Court Chambers barrister VV Veeder QC using language which the claimant says shows his lack of impartiality.

07 March 2017

Spanish newspaper publisher Victor Pey Casado has accused arbitrator VV Veeder QC of deliberate omission in a fresh attempt to disqualify him from an ICSID tribunal hearing a case against Chile filed just two days after a previous challenge failed.

24 February 2017