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Argentina and Japan are moving ahead with a bilateral investment treaty.
French co. agreed to $275 million to settle 12-year dispute. Engie is the biggest shareholder in water, sewer company.
The ITUC General Council adopted an emergency resolution strongly condemning Argentina's decision to deny accreditation to more than 60 civil society representatives to the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference.
"The government may prevent us from coming to Buenos Aires, but they won't stop us from mobilizing our local communities," said one organizer whose visa was denied.
Noting the ad hoc nature of investment arbitration under the ICSID, it is not surprising that two tribunals adopted different interpretations
Litigation funder Burford Capital stands to take home roughly $140 million from a $324 million recovery against the government of Argentina.
The World Bank's arbitration tribunal has ordered Argentina to pay $320 million plus interest and legal fees to Spanish travel group Marsans for expropriating its airline Aerolineas Argentinas SA in 2008.
Citigroup offered US$200m of Argentina bonds for sale as part of an arbitration agreement to help settle the sovereign's obligations to French oil company Total.
Argentina was the only signatory country that hadn’t yet ratified the free trade agreement, which can now go into effect.
The opening of the US market to Argentine beef exports and its continued openness to biodiesel from this country will be made conditional on a demand that Argentina change its legislation to expedite the approval of patents on seeds waiting in the pipeline.
