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Honduras denounced the ICSID Convention via a written notice received by the World Bank on February 24, 2024. Under Article 71 of the ICSID Convention, such denunciations take effect six months from the date of receipt of the...more
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID") has announced that the World Bank received a written notice of denunciation of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States...more
Disputes in these sectors are likely to continue to grow as the global demand for metals and minerals rises to meet the climate change targets for a cleaner and more renewable energy system. Mexico is ranked at the very top...more
Some readers will be familiar with the many claims made against Spain for the alleged violation of its obligations to foreign investors under the Energy Charter Treaty (the ECT). In May 2023, the English Commercial Court...more
On January 30, 2023, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published its Caseload Statistics for the 2022 calendar year. The Caseload Statistics can be found here, and ICSID’s accompanying...more
The much anticipated High Court of Australia (High Court) appeal of the full Federal Court of Australia's decision in Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (No 3) [2021] FCAFC 3 will now be heard in...more
Adopté par le Conseil administratif du CIRDI le 21 mars 2022, le nouveau Règlement du CIRDI (le « Règlement ») est entré en vigueur le 1er juillet 2022, avec l’objectif d’"une rationalisation des procédures pour permettre un...more
Conozca más sobre los cambios para mejorar la transparencia y la eficiencia en las modificaciones a las Reglas del CIADI, que entrarán en vigor el 1 de julio de 2022....more
Learn more about the changes to improve transparency and efficiency in the amended ICSID Rules, which go into effect July 1, 2022. Approved by the ICSID Administrative Council on March 21, 2022, the amended ICSID Rules will...more
On February 7th, 2022, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published the latest edition of its Caseload Statistics, confirming the strong demand for ICSID Arbitration despite challenges...more
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) is an international institution, created under the auspices of the World Bank, which is arguably the world’s leading international institution for the...more
In the investor-State context, consensual alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has long been viewed as an aspirational endeavor. Where a foreign company or individual complains of mistreatment by a host State, the investor...more
Strategies to Collect International Arbitration Awards- One of the problems that parties to international arbitration face is that the opposing party may attempt to move its assets so that if an award it entered against...more
With the results of the U.S. presidential election announced last week, international lawyers are now looking closely at how the incoming Biden Administration will handle the many challenges facing the global legal order....more
Can project finance lenders bring claims under investment treaties? An arbitral tribunal constituted under the Energy Charter Treaty recently confirmed they can, by finding that loans and hedging instruments issued by a...more
One of the main procedural cornerstones of international investment and commercial arbitration is arbitral tribunal integrity. Accordingly, attacks on the composition of the tribunal can be fatal. In fact, international...more
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) recently published its bi-annual report on its caseload statistics. The report covers ICSID’s fiscal year from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020, and it...more
A uniform pronouncement of the burden of proof necessary for a party to succeed in summary disposition of a case is conspicuously absent from international arbitration today. The rules for summary disposition of cases...more
In 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) rendered a judgment in the Achmea case, which has led to much controversy and concern in the European investor-state arbitration community. ...more
Governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with drastic, and at times divergent, measures that impact both the global economy at a macro level, and businesses in many sectors, at a micro level....more
The last few weeks have seen a raft of new investor-state arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), including the first known investor-state claim against the European Union (EU) itself. These claims largely arise...more
The Situation: The Netherlands has 79 bilateral investment treaties ("BITs") in place with non-EU countries. On March 22, 2019, the Dutch government published a new model BIT ("2019 Model") as a template for negotiating new...more
In a long-awaited ruling of June 18, 2019, the General Court of the EU (GCEU) annulled the European Commission’s State aid 2015 decision in the Micula case (joined cases T-624/15, T-694/15 and T-704/15). The factual...more
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has released its 2018 caseload statistics. In 2018 ICSID registered a record 56 new cases, as compared to 53 cases registered in 2017. Since the first...more
As detailed in an October 2, 2018, Skadden client alert, the United States’ efforts to revise the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) reached a milestone on September 30, 2018, when the U.S., Mexico and...more