Managing Partner Ioannis Vassardanis, has been appointed as an Arbitrator by the Respondent State in the pending ICSID case of Société d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon and Veolia Africa v. Gabonese Republic. In this respect, Ioannis is the first Greece-based arbitration practitioner, who has ever assumed both the role of an arbitrator in an ICSID Tribunal and that of a counsel in another ICSID. It is worth noting that, in Ioannis’ case, he has the pleasure of exercising both capacities at the same time.