investment | BITs
South Centre | 12-Mar-2020
For developing countries, governing foreign direct investment through IIAs and ISDS corresponds to a policy model discredited by years of social and economic failures.
The Annapurna Express | 2-Mar-2020
Nepal has signed six bilateral investment treaties that can be described as first generation i.e. a template of BITs that were championed by inves­tor-friendly Western European countries
South Centre | 28-Feb-2020
The basis of a claim in ISDS is always the applicable international investment agreement. There would always be differences and inconsistencies with an appellate mechanism.
Deccan Herald | 27-Jan-2020
India inked an Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Treaty with Brazil – the first one after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government in December 2015 approved a new template for such bilateral pacts.
El Universal | 24-Jan-2020
El Acuerdo para la Promoción y Protección Recíproca de las Inversiones permite la transferencia libre de capitales y acceso al arbitraje internacional para la solución de controversias.
The Economic Times | 20-Jan-2020
India has a faced a number of claims from foreign investors over the years under the BIT regime. It is presently engaged in over 20 investor-State disputes, with a number of them revolving around retrospective tax claims.
Hankyoreh | 14-Jan-2020
South Korea has concluded no fewer than 99 investment agreements that allows paper companies to take advantage of investor-state dispute system.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 8-Jan-2020
This termination agreement marks the culmination of the European Commission’s and several Member States’ efforts to abolish intra-EU investment arbitration proceedings from the European legal order.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 8-Jan-2020
The leaked treaty for the termination of intra-EU BITs can be seen as the culmination of an ongoing effort by the EU Commission to discourage investment arbitration between Member States, reflecting a tension between public international law and EU law.