Region: Poland

UPDATED: Gazprom’s exports arm says it has launched another price review claim under a long-term gas sale agreement with Polish state utility PGNiG – while it continues to try to overturn the outcome of a prior arbitration.

17 January 2022

A potash mining investor has succeeded in disqualifying Kaj Hobér from an ICC tribunal that has been hearing a treaty claim against Poland since 2017 after learning of his undisclosed involvement in a panel that dismissed a similar claim against the state over natural resources.

03 November 2021

The European Court of Justice has ruled that EU member states are prohibited from entering into ad hoc arbitration agreements identical to those in intra-EU BITs – suggesting that contract-based investor-state dispute settlement is unlikely to escape the impact of Achmea.

26 October 2021

The US television company behind the Discovery Channel has threatened Poland with an investment treaty claim over new laws that would ban foreign ownership of media companies in the country.

16 August 2021

Poland says it has defeated an Energy Charter Treaty claim worth almost €90 million brought by a group of investors in a project to use natural gas to generate combined heat and power.

21 July 2021

Alicja Zielińska-Eisen, who helped a Luxembourg entity win a €176 million treaty award against Poland, has left Linklaters to join newly-launched disputes boutique Queritius as of counsel, splitting her time between Warsaw and Berlin.

19 January 2021

The French Court of Cassation has ruled that US investors seeking to revive a US$125 million investment treaty claim against Poland through set-aside proceedings can present new jurisdictional arguments that they failed to raise before the arbitral tribunal.

03 December 2020

27 January 2020

27 January 2020

27 January 2020