Trends Against BITS and Investor State Dispute Resolution -
In my first Expect Focus International article (http://bit.ly/2G9Demu), I suggested that investors doing business outside the United States should do so in countries that have entered into bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with the United States. That is still good advice. However, there is a trend toward terminating BITs in various parts of the world, particularly in more authoritarian Latin American jurisdictions.
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