Mondaq | 26-jun-2017
Over the past twenty years, International Investment Agreements have become an increasingly popular and valuable tool for investors to manage their foreign investment risk.
Greenpeace | 26-jun-2017
A leak of documents related to a looming trade deal with Japan (known as JEFTA) has revealed the EU’s failure to live up to improve transparency and uphold environmental standards in trade policy promises.
Law Gazette | 26-jun-2017
The High Court has granted two investors permission to appeal a decision that stayed enforcement of a dispute resolution award, in a case that centres on EU rules surrounding state aid.
Eleve | 23-jun-2017
El Estado argentino enfrenta su primer juicio en el exterior por la nacionalización de las AFJP.
IISD | 23-jun-2017
The Energy Charter Secretariat is in expansion mode, wanting to gain access to energy resources in Africa and Asia for its current—mostly developed country—members, and extending a far-reaching (and outdated) investment protection system to investments in resource-rich countries.
TNI | 23-jun-2017
A democratic decision to regulate a privatised essential service or to return it to public control could potentially trigger international investment arbitration if a country is bound by an international investment treaty.
Newburgh Gazette | 23-jun-2017
Chevron is victorious after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case made against the company by a NY lawyer representing Ecuadorian villagers.
National Law Review | 23-jun-2017
Venezuela is taking its fight over a $1.4 billion arbitral award to the District of Columbia’s federal court of appeals.
Lexology | 22-jun-2017
The Revised Mining Charter 2017 could, in respect of certain provisions thereto, result in BIT guarantees for qualifying foreign investors being infringed.
UNCTAD | 21-jun-2017
International investment agreement (IIA) reform has made significant progress.