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Franklin Berman

Gender Male
Country United Kingdom
Year of birth 1939
OECD member Yes

Number of cases in which have they been involved

Cases in which this arbitrator has been involved, divided into claimant-appointed, respondent-appointed, or presiding arbitrator

As president Claimant/appointed Respondent/appointed Total
8 5 4 17

Additional information about nationality

Frequency with which this arbitrator has been appointed by claimants/respondents of the same/different nationality as the arbitrator

This arbitrator has been appointed by claimant 0% (0) of times from parties of the SAME country
This arbitrator has been appointed by claimant 100% (5) of times from parties of the DIFFERENT countries
This arbitrator has been appointed by respondent 0% (0) of times from parties of the SAME country
This arbitrator has been appointed by respondent 100% (4) of times from parties of the DIFFERENT countries

Claimants' countries

Nationalities of the claimants appointing this arbitrator

Country No. of times
Germany 2
Australia 1
United States 1
Canada 1

Respondents' countries

Nationalities of the respondent States appointing this arbitrator

Country No. of times
Germany 1
Turkey 1
Pakistan 1
Russian Federation 1

Appointed as President Arbitrator (8 case/s)

Cases in which this arbitrator was appointed as presiding arbitrator

Case Appointed by Law firms
PCA Case No 2016-35
Vodafone International Holdings BV		 Unknown
PCA Case No. 2009-11
HICEE B.V.		 Unknown Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, London, UK Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva, Switzerland
PCA Case No. 2010-5
ECE		 Appointed by agreement of appointed arbitrators
PCA Case No. 2012-10
Merck Sharpe & Dohme (I.A.) LLC		 Unknown Procuraduría General del Estado, Quito, Ecuador Foley Hoag Merck Sharpe & Dohme LLC Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, London, U.K.
ARB/06/3
The Rompetrol Group N.V.		 Appointed by agreement of party-appointed arbitrators Lalive, Geneva, Switzerland Leaua & Asociatii, Bucharest, Romania Tanasescu Gavrila si Asociatii, Bucharest, Romania Dentons Europe, Paris, France
ARB/07/8
Giovanni Alemanni and others		 Appointed by designated appointing authority Procurador del Tesoro de la Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina ARBLIT, Milan, Italy Piero Parodi, Milan, Italy Rodolfo Carlos Barra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ARB/13/32
MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company Plc
ARB/09/11
Global Trading Resource Corp. and Globex International, Inc.		 Appointed by agreement of the parties Magisters, Kiev, Ukraine White & Case, Paris, France DLA Piper, New York, NY, U.S.A

Appointed as Claimants Arbitrator (5 case/s)

Cases in which this arbitrator was appointed by claimants

Case Law firms
World Wide Minerals Reed Smith, London, U.K. Reed Smith, Astana, Kazakhstan Jones Day, Washington D.C., USA
ARB/01/14
F-W Oil Interests, Inc.		 Carol Bristol Charles Russell Solicitors, London, U.K. James Dingemans, London, U.K. Vinson & Elkins, London, U.K. Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
ICSID Case No ARB/04/11
Russell Resources International Limited and others		 Cabinet Tshibangu & Associés Ministère de la Justice et des Affaires Parlementaires, Kinshasa-Gombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo Managing Director, Russell Resources International Limited
ARB/08/1
Marion Unglaube		 Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, San Jose, Costa Rica Sidley Austin, Washington, D.C., U.S.A K&L Gates, Frankfurt, Germany K&L Gates, London, U.K.
ARB/09/20
Reinhard Hans Unglaube		 Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, San Jose, Costa Rica Sidley Austin, Washington, D.C., U.S.A K&L Gates, Frankfurt, Germany K&L Gates, London, U.K.

Appointed as Respondent Arbitrator (4 case/s)

Cases in which this arbitrator was appointed by respondent State

Case Law firms
SCC Case No 079/2005
RosInvestCo UK Ltd.		 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Paris, France Essex Court Chambers, London, United Kingdom Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Mannheimer, Swartling Advokatbyrå AB, Stockholm, Sweden
ARB/03/29
Bayindir Insaat Turizm Ticaret Ve Sanayi A.S.		 Attorney General for Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan Eversheds Sutherland, Paris, France Samuel Wordsworth, London, U.K. Samdani & Qureshi, Islamabad, Pakistan Sidley Austin, Washington, D.C., U.S.A Stephen M. Schwebel, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
ARB/06/8
Libananco Holdings Co. Limited		 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, New York, NY, U.S.A. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris, France Coşar Avukatlik Bürosu, Istanbul, Turkey Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Lellos P. Demetriades Law Office, Nicosia, Cyprus
ARB/09/6
Vattenfall AB, Vattenfall Europe AG, Vattenfall Europe Generation AG		 K&L Gates, Paris, France Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, Berlin, Germany Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, Germany Mannheimer, Swartling Advokatbyrå AB, Stockholm, Sweden