Pouvoir recourir à l’arbitrage, c’est une des clauses qu’exige une compagnie lorsqu’elle signe un contrat dans un pays étranger, pour ne pas dépendre des juridictions locales.
The US-based private equity firm Carlyle, is suing the Moroccan government for over USD 400 million in the ICSID, claiming the sum is equivalent to the profit lost when Morocco’s sole refinery went bankrupt three years ago.
According to an official at the ministry, the fund can file the ISDS after a 90-day "grace period," as it is stated in the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
Le fonds d’investissement et ses entités menacent le Maroc d’un recours devant le CIRDI. Ils réclament le remboursement de plus de 400 millions de dollars, montant correspondant à leur créance sur la Samir.
Since 1973, the sovereign islands of the Caribbean Sea, have concluded over 140 international investment agreements. The ICSID Convention is in force in all islands except Antigua & Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, and the Dominican Republic.
Dans procédure parallèle à celle engagée devant la Banque mondiale, ConocoPhillips a indiqué avoir obtenu gain de cause contre la société pétrolière d’Etat vénézuélienne PDVSA.
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law has an opportunity this week to keep pace with the other developments around the world challenging ISDS by using bold and creative thinking.
In a separate arbitration claim from the ICSID case, the International Chamber of Commerce has ordered Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips $2.04 billion for early dissolution of two joint ventures for producing oil.