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A UN Law Firm? : UNCITRAL Establishes Advisory Centre for States in ISDS Disputes

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In 2024, the 70 plus member States of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) took significant steps towards the creation of an Advisory Centre for States in disputes in the Investor State...more

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President Trump's Executive Order on Unleashing American Energy: Potential Foreign Investors' Claims Against the United States

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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued the Executive Order on Unleashing American Energy, pausing the disbursement of grants and loans under the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") and the Infrastructure Investment...more

White & Case LLP

Shifting Sands: How New Interpretations Could Reshape U.S.-Colombian Investments

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U.S.-Colombian relations are currently experiencing a period of heightened tension, as evidenced by recent trade measures and diplomatic exchanges. Moreover, in the last weeks the Free Trade Commission (the "Commission") of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New Interpretation of the Investment Chapter of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Will Make It Harder for Investors to...

Amid the flurry of expected international trade actions by the second Trump administration, the outgoing Biden White House reached a significant (but overlooked) agreement of its own to curtail investor-state dispute...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Treaty Arbitration in India: Perspectives of the State and Indian Investor

Bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) are agreements between countries that attempt to provide protections to investors from one state investing in the other (the “host state”). India’s experience with BITs and investor...more

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Five Take-Aways From Bracewell Seminar on the Strategic Use of International Arbitration and Mexico

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International arbitration, when available and used strategically, adds leverage, especially in dealing with a government. Qualifying foreign investors in Mexico affected by the changes in the regulatory environment promoted...more

King & Spalding

Tokyo Dispute Resolution & Crisis Management Newsletter – February 2020

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In late 2017, South Africa modernized its International Arbitration Act (the “IAA”) and showed potential to become the arbitral seat of choice for arbitrations involving African parties. Just a few months later, however,...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

U.S.-India Newsletter - September 2019

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Over the years, and following the general elections in 2019, the partnership between the United States and India has gone from strength to strength. U.S.-India bilateral trade surged to more than $142 billion in 2018, up 12.7...more

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Tokyo Dispute Resolution & Crisis Management Newsletter – August 2019

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The Philippines has become a favoured destination for foreign investors despite global and domestic risks. Foreign direct investment in the Philippines in the last two years was at approximately $10 billion per year, with...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Minimizing Risks and Maximizing Opportunities in China-Latin America Investment

On June 1, 2017, Skadden hosted the webinar “Minimizing Risks and Maximizing Opportunities in China-Latin America Investment.” Topics of discussion included the increasing importance of Chinese investment in Latin America,...more

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International Investment Arbitration in Latin America: Year in Review 2015

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International investment arbitration – also known as investment treaty arbitration or investor-State arbitration – is a procedure whereby foreign investors may seek a binding adjudication of claims against host States that...more

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