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 long-standing practice to adopt the principle of absolute foreign state immunity by the People’s Republic of China (the PRC) and Hong Kong is coming to an end as the PRC’s Foreign State Immunity Law (the FSIL) is coming...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 final part of this three-part series podcast, partners Raja Bose, Ian Meredith, Matt Weldon, and associates Robert Houston and Hena Sial discuss the pandemic-related claims and concerns a Host State may have, such as...more
In the second part of this three-part series podcast, partners Raja Bose, Ian Meredith, and Matt Weldon, along with associate Robert Houston, discuss the scope for, and how investors might be able to recognize, potential...more
In the introductory episode of this three-part series, partners Raja Bose, Ian Meredith, and Matt Weldon, along with associates Ed Brown-Humes and Rob Houston, provide an overview of Investor-State arbitration in the context...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 Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice recently released the Administrative Measures for Business Offices Established by Overseas Arbitration Institutions in Lin-Gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone...more
On January 11, 2018, Mexico became the 162nd country to sign the 1965 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the ICSID Convention or the Convention)....more
The first edition of the SIAC Investment Arbitration Rules (the SIAC IA Rules) was released on 30 December 2016 and came into force on 1 January 2017. In releasing the SIAC IA Rules, SIAC has become the first commercial...more