Articles in English
Sidley Austin LLP | 22-May-2020
Investors nonetheless may be well advised to consider restructuring intra-EU investments through third countries to ensure treaty protection for the future.
keywords:
EU ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Climate Change News | 22-May-2020
Uniper is using a controversial investor dispute system to claim up to €1 billion compensation for being forced to close a coal power station early.
TNI | 19-May-2020
As governments take action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent economic collapse, they could face multi-million dollar lawsuits.
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audio ,
corporate interests ,
covid ,
finance | banking | taxes ,
health ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
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.
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.
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.
Friends of the Earth Europe | 18-May-2020
The Energy Charter Treaty takes an axe to climate action.
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.
Global Legal Chronicle | 14-May-2020
Spanish contractor Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos S.A. lost an investment treaty arbitration against Algeria brought before ICSID.
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Algeria ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
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.
