ISDS Case Map
ICSID
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank)
Particular issues and procedures in investment treaties have proved especially contentious at both conceptual and practical levels.
Litigation finance treats litigation claims as financeable assets, just like real estate or receivables
Pursuant to the ruling of an Irish court, Airbus A320 of Congo Airways, RDC’s new national airline company, is blocked at Dublin airport. The Congolese authorities are not excluding the hypothesis of “vulture fund subterfuge”.
We have been hearing news of the Pakistan government’s efforts to reach a settlement with the Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) in connection with the Reko Diq matter involving copper and gold reserves worth billions of dollars.
Is Senegal providing a disproportionate level of protection to foreign investors through BITs?
Luis Parada, a lawyer with the law firm Foley Hoag, is optimistic that the company, Pacific Rim, will not prevail in the proceedings.
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes hears its first case outside of US, France
An international tribunal began hearing a multi-billion dollar case Friday that the US private equity firm Lone Star filed against South Korea's government over tax and other disputes surrounding its asset sell-offs in Korea.
The UN Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration has been opened for signature.
