Organisation: South32

An Australian-owned mining company has asked a US court to enforce an ICSID award requiring Colombia to reimburse it for overpaid royalties.

05 March 2025

UK-Argentine boutique Dechamps International Law has hired Juan Pomés as a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to launch its new office in Montevideo. 

24 September 2024

An ICSID tribunal has partly upheld claims by an Australian-owned company in a US$440 million dispute with Colombia over mining royalties, as a dissenting arbitrator complains that an order to indemnify the investor for future damages infringes the state’s sovereignty.

25 June 2024

A tribunal has rejected a Canadian investor’s US$180 million claim against Colombia over a ban on mining operations in high-altitude wetlands – one of three ICSID cases over the same environmental measures.

10 June 2024

A divided ICSID tribunal has found Colombia liable in a US$700 million claim brought by a Canadian mining company that was deprived of its right to operate within an environmental preservation zone.

13 September 2021

Anglo American has filed an ICSID claim against Colombia following a local court order blocking expansion plans at a coal mine over environmental concerns – days after its partner in the project Glencore lodged a claim against the state.

03 June 2021

UPDATED: The latest round of panels formed at ICSID includes first-time appointments for Singapore’s chief justice Sundaresh Menon SC, Anne-Karin Grill, Joe Tirado, Carmen Núňez-Lagos and Samaa Haridi.

22 January 2021

An ICSID tribunal has rejected Colombia’s preliminary objections to a US$250 million treaty claim brought by a Canadian company which says illegal miners have blocked access to its gold and silver projects in the country.

01 December 2020

An Australian mining company has filed an ICSID claim against Colombia over attempts by the state’s authorities to retroactively claim more than US$180 million in royalties allegedly owed by its local subsidiary.

30 March 2020