21-Aug-2009
World-Grain.com
US-based Corn Products International has been awarded damages of over $58m in a dispute with Mexico over violations of the North America Free Trade Agreement.
21-Aug-2009
Pillsbury Law
As with Western BITs, bilateral investment treaties between China and numerous Latin American countries potentially protect Chinese investors by authorizing them to bring legal claims related to their investments against the host country government directly and to settle those disputes in international arbitration, rather than in the domestic courts
3-Aug-2009
Economic Times
A team from Washington will visit New Delhi next week to discuss liberalisation of investment laws that had taken a back seat due to
elections in both the countries.
24-Jul-2009
Business Daily
Uganda on Thursday adopted a cautious stand as negotiations on a regional common market entered a sensitive phase in which experts sought to find the most appropriate deals on protection of foreign investments
24-Jun-2009
Stikeman Eliott LLP
In today’s risk averse environment investment protection agreements are also increasingly attractive to protect pension and mutual fund investments.
22-Jun-2009
Rights & Democracy
Investment treaties and free trade agreements offer few instructions as to how such agreements should be reconciled with human rights obligations of the state.