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A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Venezuela continues to be governed by the Commercial Arbitration Law, published in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 36.430 on 7 April 1998, to which no legislative amendment has been made since. In addition, Venezuela is a contracting state to a number of arbitration treaties, such as the 1911 Caracas Convention, the New York Convention, the 1975 Panama Arbitration Convention, and the…

A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1       Legislation International arbitration in Venezuela continues to be governed by the Commercial Arbitration Law, published in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 36.430 on April 7, 1998, to which no legislative amendment has been made since. However, a new dispute board was created in 2019. This contemplates other projects of any nature contrary to prior Dispute Boards that are based on preventing engineering and construction conflicts.…

In Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, No. 14-8163-cv (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 4, 2015), the District Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed an ICSID award’s interest rate, denying Defendant’s motion to modify the award to reflect a statutory interest rate. Defendant, Venezuela, sought modification of a prior order of the court (the “Opinion”) which confirmed Plaintiff’s $1.6 billion International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) arbitral award. Defendant argued…