Region: Ecuador

An Argentine-owned energy company has launched an ICSID claim against Ecuador over the state’s failure to release it from US$100 million worth of guarantees issued in connection with the handover of a major oil pipeline. 

23 April 2025

Oil and gas companies from the US and Panama have filed a contractual ICSID claim against Ecuador.

21 March 2025

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23 August 2024

An UNCITRAL tribunal has awarded US$10 million in damages to a subsidiary of US oil services giant Halliburton in a contractual dispute with Ecuador’s national oil company.

01 August 2024

Hernan Pérez Loose of Coronel & Pérez welcomes a recent ruling by Ecuador’s Constitutional Court that foreign arbitral awards do not require homologation before they can be enforced in the country.

04 June 2024

The Ecuadorean public has voted against a proposal to allow the state to enter into treaties that refer disputes with investors to international arbitration.

23 April 2024

Hernan Pérez Loose of Coronel & Perez in Guayaquil argues the Ecuadorean public’s rejection of a proposed constitutional change to allow the state to enter international treaties that provide for arbitration is a blow to the government’s hopes of attracting foreign investment to Ecuador.

23 April 2024

An UNITRAL tribunal is in place to hear a treaty claim brought by two Italian nationals against Ecuador over their investments in the gaming sector.

19 April 2024

The documentary film which inspired Toby Landau KC’s Alexander Lecture provides “a rare look” at the human impact of arbitration and has been declared “essential viewing” for arbitrators and arbitration practitioners by critics of investor-state dispute settlement.

12 April 2024

Occidental Petroleum says it has reached a preliminary settlement with its Chinese former partner in an Ecuadorean oil block to settle a long-running fight over the proceeds of an ICSID award.

13 February 2024