Decisions on Manifest Lack of Legal Merit
| Case name | decision or Award (language(s)) | date of decision or Award | Finding that Claim is Manifestly Without Legal Merit |
| Ioan Micula, Viorel Micula and others v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/20) - Annulment Proceeding | Decision on the applicable arbitration rules and on the preliminary objections filed by the Respondents on Annulment (English) | June 25, 2014 |
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| Trans-Global Petroleum, Inc. v. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/25) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | May 12, 2008 | Partial |
| Brandes Investment Partners, LP v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/08/3) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English & Spanish) | February 2, 2009 | No |
| Elsamex, S.A. v. Republic of Honduras (ICSID Case No. ARB/09/4) - Annulment | Decision on Elsamex S.A.'s Preliminary Objections (Spanish) | January 7, 2014 | No |
| Global Trading Resource Corp. and Globex International, Inc. v. Ukraine (ICSID Case No. ARB/09/11) | Award (English) | December 1, 2010 | Yes |
| RSM Production Corporation and others v. Grenada (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/6) | Award (English) | December 10, 2010 | Yes |
| Pan American Energy LLC v. Plurinational State of Bolivia (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/8) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (Spanish) | April 26, 2013 |
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| Rafat Ali Rizvi v. Republic of Indonesia (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/13) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | April 4, 2012 |
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| Emmis International Holding, B.V., Emmis Radio Operating, B.V., and MEM Magyar Electronic Media Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. v. Hungary (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/2) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | March 11, 2013 | Partial |
| Accession Mezzanine Capital L.P. and Danubius Kereskedöház Vagyonkezelö Zrt. v. Hungary (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/3) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | January 16, 2013 | Partial |
| Mobile TeleSystems OJSC v. Republic of Uzbekistan (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/12/7) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | November 14, 2013 |
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| Vattenfall AB and others v. Federal Republic of Germany (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | July 2, 2013 |
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| Venoklim Holding B.V. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/22) -Annulment | Decision on Respondent's Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (Spanish) | March 8, 2016 | No |
| Lundin Tunisia B. V. v. Republic of Tunisia (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/30) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | January 6, 2014 |
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| Edenred SA v. Hungary (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/21) | Decision on Preliminary Objections Pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | June 6, 2014 |
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| Edenred SA v. Hungary (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/21) - Revision | Decision on Revision | February 7, 2019 | Yes |
| Transglobal Green Energy, LLC and Transglobal Green Panama, S.A. v. Republic of Panama (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/28) | Decision on the Admissibility of Respondent’s Preliminary Objection to Jurisdiction of the Tribunal under Rule 41(5) of the Arbitration Rules (English) | March 17, 2015 |
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| MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Plc v. Republic of Croatia (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/32) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | December 2, 2014 |
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| PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd. v. Independent State of Papua New Guinea (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/33) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | October 28, 2014 |
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| CEAC Holdings Limited v. Montenegro (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/8) |
Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections Pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | January 27, 2015 |
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| InfraRed Environmental Infrastructure GP Limited and others v. Kingdom of Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/12) - Revision | Decision on Claimants' Objection under ICSID Rule 41(5) to Respondent's Application for Revision (English & Spanish) | March 8, 2021 | Yes |
| Elektrogospodarstvo Slovenije - razvoj in inzeniring d.o.o. v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/13) | Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections Pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | November 3, 2015 |
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| Ansung Housing Co., Ltd. v. People's Republic of China (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/25) | Award (English) | March 9, 2017 | Yes |
| Lion Mexico Consolidated L.P. v. United Mexican States (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/15/2) | Decision on Respondent’s Preliminary Objections under Article 45(6) of the ICSID Arbitration (Additional Facility) Rules (English) |
December 12, 2016 | No |
| Álvarez y Marín Corporación S.A. and others v. Republic of Panama (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/14) |
Decision on Respondent's Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (Spanish) Reasoning of the Decision on Respondent's Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (Spanish) |
January 27, 2016
April 4, 2016 |
No |
| Mathias Kruck and others v. Kingdom of Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/23) | Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections Pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | March 14, 2016 |
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| Eskosol S.p.A. in liquidazione v. Italian Republic (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/50) | Decision on the Respondent’s Objection Pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules (English) | March 20, 2017 | No |
| Dominion Minerals Corp. v. Republic of Panama (ICSID Case No. ARB/16/13) - Annulment | Decision on Respondent’s Applications for the Stay of Enforcement of the Award and under Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | July 21, 2022 | No |
| Portigon AG v. Kingdom of Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/15) | Decision on Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | May 31, 2018 | _ |
| Mabco Constructions SA v. Republic of Kosovo (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/25) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | February 7, 2018 | No |
| Lotus Holding Anonim Şirketi v. Turkmenistan (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/30 | Award (English) | April 6, 2020 | Yes |
| Ecodevelopment in Europe AB and EcoEnergy Africa AB v. United Republic of Tanzania (ICSID No. ARB/17/33) - Annulment | Decision on Ecodevelopment in Europe AB and EcoEnergy Africa AB’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | November 1, 2022 | _ |
| Petronor E&P Gambia Limited and APCL Gambia B.V. v. Republic of The Gambia (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/38) | Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | December 31, 2018 | _ |
| Almasryia for Operating & Maintaining Touristic Construction Co. L.L.C. v. State of Kuwait (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/2) | Award (English) | November 1, 2019 | Yes |
| Red Eagle Exploration Limited v. Republic of Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/12) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | December 16, 2019 | No |
| Galway Gold Inc. v. Republic of Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/13) | Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections pursuant to Rule 41(5) of the ICSID Arbitration Rules | December 20, 2019 | _ |
| Alverley Investments Limited and Germen Properties Ltd v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/30) | Decision on Preliminary Objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | August 1, 2019 | No |
| Glencore International A.G. and others v. Republic of Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/22) | Decision on Respondent's Application under Rule 41(5) (English) | February 22, 2021 | _ |
| Strabag SE, Erste Nordsee-Offshore Holding GmbH and Zweite Nordsee-Offshore Holding GmbH v. Federal Republic of Germany (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/29) | Decision on Respondent's Application under Rule 41(5) (English) | July 24, 2020 | No |
| Marko Mihaljević v. Republic of Croatia (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/35) | Decision on Respondent's Application under Rule 41(5) (English) | June 23, 2021 | No |
| AFC Investment Solutions S.L. v. Republic of Colombia (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/16) | Award (Spanish) | February 24, 2022 | Yes |
| AHG Industry GmbH & Co. KG v. Republic of Iraq (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/21) | Award | September 30, 2022 | Yes |
| Teyliom International and others v. Republic of Benin (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/24) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | November 1, 2021 | _ |
| Fengzhen Min v. Republic of Korea (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/26) | Decision on Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | June18, 2021 | _ |
| Optima Ventures LLC, Optima 7171 LLC and Optima 55 Public Square LLC v. United States of America (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/11) | Decision on the Respondent’s Preliminary Objections under Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | January 19, 2024 | No |
| Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd and others v. Federal Republic of Germany (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/26) | Decision on Respondent’s Application under ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | January 18, 2022 | No |
| Alpene Ltd. v. Republic of Malta (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/36) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) | May 23, 2022 | _ |
| Vasilisa Ershova and Jegor Jeršov v. Republic of Bulgaria (ICSID Case No. ARB/22/29) | Decision on the Respondent’s preliminary objections pursuant to ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5) (English) | July 25, 2023 | No |
| JLL Capital, S.A.P.I. de C.V. v. Republic of Honduras (ICSID Case No. ARB/23/3) | Decision on Preliminary Objections (2022 Rules) | December 21, 2023 | _ |