Bilateral Investment Treaties

"The Increasing Appeal and Novel Use of Bilateral Investment Treaties"

by David Herlihy, David Kavanagh, Timothy Nelson | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/30/2013

Over the last 20 years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have provided foreign investors with basic safeguards against expropriation and related risks and guarantee the right to bring claims before a neutral arbitral...more

Cyprus Bailout: Potential Recourse for Lost Investments

by Owen Hammond, Bruce Johnston, Peter Sharp, Iain Wright | Morgan Lewis on 4/15/2013

Large depositors in Cyprus's two largest banks may consider international arbitration and appeals to the European courts to recover funds lost under the bailout plan....more

The Eurozone Crisis Du Jour: Cyprus

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 3/29/2013

Banks in Cyprus opened today at 10 am GMT, 10 days after they closed, as Cyprus became the first country in the Eurozone to implement capital and exchange controls in an attempt to prevent a run on the nation’s banks and a...more

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: International Arbitration: EU Member State Defends Measures Adverse to Energy Sector Investments on the basis...

by King & Spalding on 2/6/2013

A recent decision in the investment treaty case, Electrabel S.A. v. the Republic of Hungary, represents an important contribution to the rapidly-growing case law concerning the relationship between EU law and intra-EU...more

Risky Business: Protecting Indian Investments Abroad

by Nandan Nelivigi | White & Case LLP on 1/20/2013

GMR’s ouster from the US$511 million airport modernization project in Maldives has refocused the spotlight on political risks facing foreign investments. As the GMR-Maldives story unfolds, this is a good time for Indian...more

TRANSACTIONAL: Corporate/London: Maritime Boundaries: UNCLOS and disputes over the right to explore and develop offshore reserves...

by King & Spalding on 1/17/2013

Despite the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) providing nations with a 200 mile offshore area (an “Exclusive Economic Zone) for exploiting maritime reserves, international waters remain...more

International Investment Treaties as a Possible Shield Against Government Cutbacks in Subsidies for the Green Energy Sector

by Wojciech Sadowski, Ph.D. | K&L Gates LLP on 1/10/2013

A number of governments around the world have recently curtailed their incentive schemes for green energy producers. These measures have often led to disruption of the basic economic assumptions of many ongoing or newly...more

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"The Increasing Appeal and Novel Use of Bilateral Investment Treaties"

Cyprus Bailout: Potential Recourse for Lost Investments

The Eurozone Crisis Du Jour: Cyprus

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: International Arbitration: EU Member State Defends Measures Adverse to Energy Sector Investments on the basis...

Risky Business: Protecting Indian Investments Abroad

TRANSACTIONAL: Corporate/London: Maritime Boundaries: UNCLOS and disputes over the right to explore and develop offshore reserves...

International Investment Treaties as a Possible Shield Against Government Cutbacks in Subsidies for the Green Energy Sector

The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions

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