September 30, 2025
A D.C. federal judge enforced a pair of arbitral awards against Spain worth a combined €332.4 million ($390.5 million), days before the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to take up the country's jurisdictional challenge in the cases.
January 02, 2025
Spain is planning to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit decision that greenlighted the enforcement of intra-European Union investor-state awards in U.S. federal courts, saying in court filings that the appeal raises serious issues related to foreign sovereign immunity.
December 17, 2024
A Luxembourg-based renewable energy investment firm on Tuesday urged a District of Columbia federal judge to confirm a €41.8 million ($43.9 million) arbitration award over Spain's abandoned energy economic incentives after the D.C. Circuit recently said such awards can be enforced.
April 21, 2023
The Kingdom of Spain has escaped a sanctions bid from a green energy investor that claimed the nation requested an anti-suit injunction from a court in Luxembourg and violated a District of Columbia federal judge's orders in a suit over enforcement of an arbitral award.
April 12, 2023
The renewable energy investor 9REN Holdings SARL told a D.C. federal judge to keep in place her February ruling that barred Spain from trying to stop the company from enforcing a €41.8 million award, warning of Spanish attempts to interfere with its collection effort.
April 10, 2023
Spain is fighting a renewable energy investor's motion to sanction it for allegedly ignoring a court order to withdraw litigation in Luxembourg aimed at preventing the enforcement of a €41.8 million ($45.3 million) arbitral award, arguing on Friday that the investor is acting in bad faith.
March 22, 2023
European officials say Spain cannot be forced to pay a €41.8 million ($45.4 million) arbitral award over revoked incentives for renewable-energy development, noting that Europe's top court has ruled that investors from within the continent cannot arbitrate disputes with European nations.
March 17, 2023
Spain is asking the D.C. Circuit to overturn a novel decision last month barring the country from avoiding a €291 million award that arbitrators, in 2019, said it owes Dutch subsidiaries of the U.S.-based NextEra Energy Inc. for reversing policies to encourage solar development.
February 16, 2023
A D.C. federal judge has ruled that Spain cannot escape litigation filed by Dutch subsidiaries of U.S.-based NextEra Energy Inc. to enforce a €291 million ($310.4 million) arbitral award against it, issuing a novel opinion rejecting the country's "backdoor" European law defenses.
December 01, 2022
Spain has lost its bid to annul a €41.8 million ($44 million) award issued to a renewable energy investor, after a committee pointed to crucial differences in a similar case where a tribunal had concluded that the claim was barred under European Union law.