India
Hindustan Times | 24-Nov-2016
India will not renew an investment treaty with the Netherlands that will expire on November 30 as part of its plan to rework all similar pacts it signed with other countries.
Live Mint | 21-Nov-2016
Cairn had in June filed a 160-page Statement of Claim seeking quashing of the retrospective tax demand on a decade-old on an internal reorganisation of its India unit.
The Hindu | 14-Nov-2016
India had sought removal of Sir Franklin Berman as the presiding arbitrator of three-member panel.
The Indian Express | 8-Nov-2016
Global MNCs like Cairn Energy and Vodafone have invoked Bilateral Investment Treaty and served arbitration notice to India over tax disputes. While the tax demand on Cairn Energy is Rs 10,247 crore, that on Vodafone is Rs 14,200 crore.
White & Case | 3-Nov-2016
Global law firm has won an arbitration award for Indian investor Flemingo DutyFree in a case brought against Poland under the India-Poland Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)
Financial Express | 25-Oct-2016
Any intra-Brics framework will only be effective if awards rendered by such a body are enforceable without the added difficulty of getting entangled in domestic proceedings.
The Hindu | 24-Oct-2016
New Delhi examining whether dispute settlement mechanism can be tweaked
The Hill Times | 12-Oct-2016
The Liberals’ relative flexibility on investor-state dispute systems and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an expected visit to India by the PM, may help to move talks along.
Live Mint | 28-Sep-2016
On Canada’s insistance, India is expected to sign a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Canada based on an old text, not its new model BIT. The old text contains contentious provisions such as the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
The Wire | 19-Sep-2016
India was one of the most sued countries in 2015. Will the country’s new model bilateral investment treaty attract and safeguard foreign investment more effectively?