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Not far enough – the state of the free trade agreement between Colombia and the United States
TNI | 26-Mar-2025
Despite criticism of the free trade agreement with the United States, Colombian President Gustavo Petro opted to reassess a series of clauses on investments and arbitration, instead of requesting a complete renegotiation.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , US
Highway heist in Honduras: How corporations fleece regular people in impoverished countries
Foreign Policy in Focus | 25-Mar-2025
Extraordinary corporate privileges in US foreign and trade policy are designed to help companies win even when their investments fail.
keywords: Honduras , investor-state disputes | ISDS , services , US
EU Commission tells Spain not to pay up in long-running renewable subsidies case
Reuters | 25-Mar-2025
The European Commission handed Spain a victory when it instructed the country not to pay any compensation in a case related to claims amounting to billions of euros on renewable energy subsidies cut more than a decade ago.
keywords: ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Spain
Almadex files memorial documentation for investment arbitration claim against Mexico
Financial Post | 24-Mar-2025
Almadex has filed its memorial submission relating to its international arbitration proceedings under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership with Mexico, seeking damages of US$1.06 billion.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , mining , US
S. Korea loses suit against int’l court ruling on compensation to Mason Capital over Samsung merger
Yonhap | 24-Mar-2025
South Korea has lost a lawsuit seeking to annul an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) ruling that ordered it to pay compensation to US hedge fund Mason Capital over losses from Samsung’s controversial 2015 merger of two units.
keywords: finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Korea , US
Affaire Pizzorno: l’échec des pressions politiques de Paris sur Rabat
Le Desk | 24-Mar-2025
La nouvelle plainte visant le Maroc devant le CIRDI, initiée par le Français Pizzorno, spécialiste de la gestion des déchets, vient à la suite de plusieurs années de pressions politiques de Paris sur Rabat soldées par un fiasco.
keywords: France , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Morocco , services
CIRDI : le Maroc veut maintenir le sursis à exécution dans son litige face à Corral
Médias24 | 21-Mar-2025
Au CIRDI, le Maroc veut maintenir le sursis à exécution de la sentence l’ayant condamné, l’été dernier, à verser plus de 150 millions de dollars à son adversaire Corral Morocco Holding, société suédoise dirigée par Mohammed Al Amoudi.
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Morocco
Notification to Ukraine under international investment agreements
London Stock Exchange | 20-Mar-2025
Ferrexpo plc has provided a formal written notification to Ukraine under international investment agreements in place between Ukraine and the United Kingdom and Ukraine and Switzerland.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Ukraine
Romania loses Washington lawsuit over Dobrogea wind farm
Romania Journal | 20-Mar-2025
The Romanian state has lost a lawsuit pending before the International Court of Arbitration in Washington, initiated in 2020 by an investor in the renewable energy sector.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Romania
Emmerson draws first tranche of litigation, working capital funds
Mining Weekly | 19-Mar-2025
Morocco-focused potash development company Emmerson has drawn down the first tranche of funding under the Capital Provision Agreement, which will provide the company with up to $11-million in both litigation finance capital and working capital.
keywords: environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Morocco