Topic: Dual nationality

A Swiss court has upheld an UNCITRAL tribunal’s decision to dismiss a US$200 million investment treaty claim against Venezuela because the claimant’s dominant and effective nationality was Venezuelan rather than Spanish. 

12 March 2025

An English judge has refused to allow the Czech Republic to amend its challenge to a US$730 million treaty award over a blood plasma business to introduce a new objection based on the multiple nationalities of one of the claimants.  

28 March 2024

Bolivia says it has defeated an investment treaty claim pursued by the estate of a deceased dual national who alleged his mining concessions had been expropriated.

06 November 2023

A French court has upheld an UNCITRAL tribunal’s decision to hear a dual national’s US$2.5 billion treaty claim against Vietnam over the cancellation of a thermal power project.

18 September 2023

A Spanish-Venezuelan businessman has complained to the European Court of Human Rights over the Dutch courts’ refusal to review the dismissal of a US$240 million investment treaty claim against Venezuela.

15 September 2023

A French-Mauritian businessman whose US$1 billion investment treaty claim against Mauritius was dismissed five years ago because of his dual nationality has lost a final bid to challenge the decision in the Belgian courts.

29 May 2023

The French Court of Cassation has upheld a US$243 million investment treaty award obtained by a French-Senegalese businessman against Senegal, dismissing the state’s arguments regarding his dual nationality.

25 May 2023

A Swedish-Iranian national who brought a funded ICSID claim against the United Arab Emirates over its refusal to renew his residency permit has dropped his case after the state contested the authenticity of some of his evidence. 

01 December 2022

The Dutch courts have reached opposite conclusions when reviewing jurisdictional findings in two investment treaty cases brought by dual nationals. Jeroen van Hezewijk and Eleonora Di Pangrazio of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer argue this asymmetry is untenable and may even be in breach of the Netherlands’ international obligations.

20 September 2022

An ICC tribunal has reportedly rejected a €65 million claim against Kosovo brought by an economist and former politician who claimed his investments in a network of petrol stations were expropriated.

11 August 2022