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Exclusive: Countries to face a ‘wave’ of corporate lawsuits challenging emergency COVID-19 measures
Open Democracy | 19-May-2020
Research claims top law firms are preparing to ‘cash in’ on the pandemic by helping corporations sue states for measures that have impaired profits.
keywords: covid , health , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Yukos shareholders seize Russian vodka assets in the Netherlands
Reuters | 18-May-2020
Shareholders in the now defunct Russian oil giant Yukos have seized Netherlands-based assets of two well-known vodka brands controlled by the Russian state in their most recent legal move to obtain $57 billion in damages from Moscow.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Netherlands , Russia
La Russie conteste en justice sa condamnation dans l’affaire Ioukos
Sputnik | 18-May-2020
La Russie a contesté devant la Cour suprême néerlandaise sa condamnation à verser 57 milliards de dollars d’indemnisation aux ex-actionnaires de l’ancien groupe pétrolier russe Ioukos.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Russia
Russia appeals decision of Hague Court of Appeal on Yukos
TASS | 18-May-2020
On February 18, The Hague Court of Appeal reinstated an order of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which obliged Russia to pay more than $50 bln to the companies associated with former Yukos shareholders in 2014.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Russia
The unknown climate-killer deal we’ll have to tackle next
Friends of the Earth Europe | 18-May-2020
The Energy Charter Treaty takes an axe to climate action.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Norway just like Turkey? ICSID arbitration/s against Norway over Svalbard’s Natural Resources: A wider picture
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 15-May-2020
The dispute for snow crabs in Svalbard may set the stage for another dispute concerning the abundant hydrocarbon reserves located in the same waters.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , investor-state disputes | ISDS , natural resources , Norway
México se arriesga al arbitraje por la política energética de AMLO
CIAR Global | 14-May-2020
México podría afrontar diferentes reclamaciones de arbitraje de inversiones si el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador completa su política en relación con la energía renovable
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico
Espiritu Santo Holdings presenta arbitraje de inversión contra México
CIAR Global | 14-May-2020
La compañía canadiense Espiritu Santo Holding, LP ha presentado un arbitraje de inversiones contra México, relacionado con reclamaciones sobre sus inversiones en una concesión de movilidad del sector del taxi (taxímetros) y una aplicación móvil en Ciudad de México.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , NAFTA | USMCA
Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos S.A. v. Algeria’s arbitration
Global Legal Chronicle | 14-May-2020
Spanish contractor Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos S.A. lost an investment treaty arbitration against Algeria brought before ICSID.
keywords: Algeria , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The termination of bilateral investment treaties in the EU – one agreement to end them all?
TaylorWessing | 11-May-2020
On 5 May 2020, 23 Member States of the EU entered into an Agreement for the Termination of Bilateral Investment Treaties between the Member States of the European Union.
keywords: ECT , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS