ICSID Tribunal Finds That Colombia Violated the Minimum Standard of Treatment but Did Not Indirectly Expropriate the Investment in Eco Oro v. Colombia - In September 2021, an International Centre for Settlement of Investment...more
3/2/2022
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Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Discovery ,
Dispute Resolution ,
ICSID ,
International Arbitration ,
Jurisdiction ,
Latin America ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
This edition offers insights regarding COVID-19 ’s impact on mergers and acquisitions and on construction projects, recent changes to International Chamber of Commerce rules, and developments relating to discovery in aid of...more
3/2/2021
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Acquisitions ,
Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Construction Project ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Discovery ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Foreign Arbitral Awards ,
International Arbitration ,
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ,
International Construction Projects ,
Latin America ,
Material Adverse Change Clauses (MACs) ,
Mergers ,
UNCITRAL
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
2/11/2019
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Argentina ,
Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Bolivia ,
Border Disputes ,
Brazil ,
Chile ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Ecuador ,
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Investment ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Guatemala ,
ICSID ,
International Arbitration ,
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ,
Investor Protection ,
Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) ,
Latin America ,
Manifest Disregard ,
Most-Favored Nations ,
NAFTA ,
Service of Process ,
Spain ,
UNCITRAL ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
Uruguay
Despite recent criticism from some quarters concerning the use of investment treaties and free trade agreements, the Chinese investment treaty system remains firmly in place. Since 1982, the People's Republic of China (PRC)...more
2/6/2017
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China ,
Expropriation ,
Hong Kong ,
ICSID ,
International Arbitration ,
International Litigation ,
Investor Protection ,
Jurisdiction ,
Macau ,
Singapore ,
UNCITRAL
A number of significant international arbitrations, particularly involving claims by investors against sovereign states, are venued in Washington, D.C. A September 30, 2016, decision by the U.S. District Court for the...more
10/13/2016
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Arbitrators ,
Argentina ,
Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Conflicts of Interest ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Evidence ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Impartiality ,
International Arbitration ,
Investors ,
Motion to Vacate ,
Standard of Review ,
UK ,
UNCITRAL ,
Young Lawyers
Most investment treaties assure investors that, in the event of expropriation, they will receive compensation based on the market value of the enterprise at the time of seizure (excluding the negative valuation effects of any...more
Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) afford investors a series of guarantees against expropriation or unfair treatment of investments in foreign jurisdictions. They also typically allow investors to enforce those rights...more