Region: Colombia

A Texas-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production company says it has defeated a US$30 million ICDR claim brought over the exploration of hydrocarbons in Colombia.

04 March 2024

UPDATED: Colombia has defeated a closely-watched ICSID claim worth US$130 million brought by a Canadian company over a ban on mining operations in environmentally protected wetlands.

29 February 2024

A UK court has approved a restructuring plan for a subsidiary of Houston-based construction group McDermott that will effectively extinguish a US$1.3 billion ICC award debt owed to a Colombian state-owned entity.

28 February 2024

The infrastructure arm of UK private equity firm InfraRed Capital has brought a treaty claim against Colombia over a highway construction project.

26 January 2024

Uría Menéndez has promoted Heidi López to partner in Madrid, while its Latin American affiliate Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría has promoted Juan Sebastián Arias to its partnership in Bogotá.

23 January 2024

A Chinese group has reportedly filed for arbitration against Colombia over the state’s alleged failure to protect a gold mine from attacks by illegal miners.

24 November 2023

A Canadian mining company says it has secured funding for its investment treaty claim against Colombia – which it said risked being discontinued over a failure to pay costs.

10 November 2023

A US company is pursuing a US$10 billion investment treaty claim against Colombia over treasure in the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena more than three hundred years ago.

14 September 2023

A Canadian energy company says it is bringing claims against subsidiaries of ExxonMobil after the US group withdrew from an oil block in Colombia following the suspension of its fracking operations at the site.

28 July 2023

Colombia’s state-owned oil company Ecopetrol says it has been awarded US$1 billion in damages in an ICC dispute with a US contractor over a troubled refinery in Cartagena.

08 June 2023