Daily Compliance News: July 30, 2025, The Corruption Kill Business Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
5 Key Takeaways | SALT and Multinational Businesses: Analyzing State and Local Taxation of Foreign Company Transactions
Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
Podcast - What Are Joint Ventures and When Should They Get Cleared?
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 27: U.S. Healthcare Reimbursement Guidance for Foreign Life Sciences Companies
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Public Policy
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Foreign Correspondent: An FDI Podcast | Mapping the National Security Landscape for Investors
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 23: Shaping Georgia’s Energy Landscape: Insights From Commissioner Tim Echols
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 22: What Global Companies Need to Know About Navigating FDA Regulations and U.S. Market Entry
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 19: The Rise of Korean Investment in the Southeast U.S.
The Russia-Ukraine ceasefire and peace negotiations remain uncertain, the European Union and United Kingdom are considering more sanctions against Russia, and the US administration’s next steps are unclear. Anticipating...more
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
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
Over the last decade, India has taken significant steps to strengthen its arbitration law to help establish itself as a global hub for international arbitration and to provide greater certainty to investors regarding...more
I. INDIA’S HISTORY WITH BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES 1. Bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) are agreements between countries that provide protections to investors from one state investing in the other (the “host...more
Over two years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered the imposition of worldwide sanctions against Russia, Moscow has continued to respond in the form of new counter-sanctions. We have previously summarized...more
The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is a multi-nation investment treaty which protects investors from the nationalization of assets and other arbitrary and discriminatory state conduct made at the expense of investments in the...more
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
What a difference a decade can make! Since the publication of our first report, "Navigating India: Lessons for Foreign Investors," in 2013, India has undergone a remarkable transformation. The country’s population grew by 100...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
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) legacy claims will soon expire and U.S., Canadian, and Mexican investors should review their investments and ascertain whether...more
On September 26, 2022, the Indonesian Minister of Investment provided an update on the review process being undertaken by the Ministry of Investment in respect of its revocation of over 2,000 mining permits in August 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
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
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many State actions in pursuit of the public interest, but while all States have faced this unprecedented global challenge with some degree of similarity, State responses have varied from one...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
In a judgment handed down on 2 September 2021,1 the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) finally ruled that the investor-state arbitration clause, at Article 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”), does not apply to intra-EU...more
This is the third alert in a four-part series on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Check out our first and second alerts. The recent signing of the RCEP in November 2020 has been heralded as a “historic...more
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
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
For various reasons–including fairness, efficiency, and avoiding inconsistent results–courts and arbitration tribunals apply a range of procedural tools to discourage or prevent parties from pursuing multiple, separate...more