ICSID CASE NO. ARB/07/5 DECISION ON JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY

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ICSID CASE NO. ARB/07/5INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SETTLEMENT OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES WASHINGTON, D.C.
ABACLAT AND OTHERS
(Case formerly known as GIOVANNA A BECCARA AND OTHERS*) (CLAIMANTS)
and
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
(RESPONDENT)
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DECISION ON JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY__________________________________
ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL Professor Pierre Tercier, President Professor Georges Abi-Saab, Arbitrator Professor Albert Jan van den Berg, Arbitrator
Secretary to the Tribunal: Mr. Gonzalo Flores
Date of dispatch to the Parties: 4 August 2011
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Representing Giovanna a Beccara and others
Ms. Carolyn B. Lamm
Mr. Jonathan C. Hamilton
Ms. Abby Cohen Smutny
Ms. Andrea J. Menaker
Mr. Francis A. Vasquez, Jr.
WHITE & CASE LLP
701 Thirteen Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
U.S.A.
and
Avv. Vittorio Grimaldi
Avv. Paolo Marzano
GRIMALDI E ASSOCIATI
Via Pinciana, 25
00198 Rome
Italy
and
Representing The Argentine Republic
Dra. Angélina María Esther Abbona Procuradora del Tesoro de la Nación Argentina
Procuración del Tesoro de la Nación Argentina
Posadas 1641
Buenos Aires (C.P. 1112)
Argentina
and
Mr. Jonathan I. Blackman
Mr. Matthew D. Slater
Mr. Carmine D. Boccuzzi
Ms. Inna Rozenberg
Mr. Ezequiel Sánchez Herrera
CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP
One Liberty Plaza
New York, NY 10006
U.S.A.
Dr. José Martínez de Hoz, Jr.
Dra. Valeria Macchia
PEREZ ALATI, GRONDONA, BENITZ, ARNTSEN & MARTINES DE HOZ (JR.)
Suipacha 1111 – Piso 18
C1008AAW Buenos Aires
Argentina
* For
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