On 25 August 2025, the Singapore Ministry of Law (MinLaw) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) signed a Letter of Intent to formalise ICSID’s establishment of an office in Singapore. The...more
Data center construction is surging around the world as companies race to build the critical infrastructure needed to power advancements in artificial intelligence. We consider below how this boom in data center construction...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
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
On 21 July 2023, as part of its 56th annual session in Vienna, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted a Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Dispute Resolution (the...more
Prudent African investors—and investors within Africa—can ensure that their foreign investments are protected from wrongful conduct that the state and its organs can inflict. ...more
The delegated regulation includes a new comprehensive and unified reporting methodology to direct investments toward environmentally sustainable economic activities....more