Work Area: Investor-state arbitration
Green light for mass claim against Argentina
ICSID is to hear the first mass claim in investment arbitration history, after a tribunal ruled that it has jurisdiction over claims by 60,000 Italian bondholders arising from Argentina's sovereign debt default.
18 August 2011
Argentina dissent renews debate on MFN
French academic Brigitte Stern has used a dissenting opinion in an ICSID award against Argentina to warn of the "great dangers" of allowing claimants to bypass a treaty's jurisdictional requirements by invoking a most-favoured nation clause.
05 July 2011
Moldova ratifies ICSID Convention
16 May 2011
Australia to scrap investor-state provisions
The Australian government has announced it will no longer include investor-state arbitration provisions in its trade agreements with developing countries.
18 April 2011
Is ICSID losing its appeal… again?
Recent ad hoc committees have overstepped their authority but the harm they have done to the ICSID system should not be exaggerated, a conference in Washington, DC, heard last week.
29 March 2011
ICSID claimant sues third-party funder
18 March 2011
Venezuela - a goldmine for lawyers?
08 February 2011
Panel in place for Togo annulment bid
ICSID has announced the ad hoc committee that will hear annulment proceedings brought by the west African state of Togo against French energy company GDF-Suez.
30 November 2010
Venezuela considers ban on arbitration in oil contracts
In the same week that Ecuador signed new contracts with five international oil companies waiving their right to resolve disputes at ICSID, Venezuela is contemplating a ban on the use of arbitration clauses in state contracts for the oil and gas services sector.
26 November 2010