Transparency in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Legal Tribune Online (LTO) interviewed, in an article a couple of days ago, Moritz Renner of Humboldt University,Berlin, on the subject of transparency in investor treaty arbitration. The main theme...
View ArticleFrankfurt Court of Appeals Upholds Arbitration Clause in BIT Arbitration –...
In a judgment last week, the Frankfurt Court of Appeals (Oberlandesgericht) found against the Slovak Republic, and confirmed an arbitral award in favour of the validity of an arbitration clause in a...
View ArticleFrom Russia With Love – Foreign Courts, Arbitration and Protectionism at the...
Russia is apparently planning to protect Russian enterprises and citizens from the interference of foreign court and arbitration tribunals. In Legal Tribune Online today, Christine Heeg and Thomas...
View ArticleUpdate: Vattenfall vs. Germany – A Dual Track Strategy
Vattenfall, the Swedish energy group, have not only commenced, as reported before, investment treaty arbitration against the Federal Republic of Germany under the Energy Charter to pursue damages...
View Article8th Frankfurt Roundtable on Investment Law and Investment Treaty Arbitration
The 8th Frankfurt Roundtable on Investment Law and Investment Treaty Arbitration is taking place on November 19, 2012. As allways, the event is being superbly organized by Alfred Escher and Jan...
View ArticleTransparency in Investment Arbitration: A Growing Public Debate
Transparency in investment arbitration, thanks to Vattenfall suing Germany over the nuclear power exit, has become a topic in the mainstream business press. A recent piece in the business weekly...
View ArticleFrankfurt Court of Appeals Upholds BIT Arbitration Clause Again – Eureko v....
We have covered these proceedings between the Slovak Republic and Eureko, a Dutch health insurance provider before. At the heart of the matter is the issue whether European law rendered arbitration...
View ArticleAll About TTIP: 11th Frankfurt Roundtable on Investment Law and Investment...
The Frankfurt Roundtable on Investment Law and Investment Treaty Arbitration is taking place this year on November 4, 2015. As always, Alfred Escher and Jan Schäfer are organizing the event in...
View ArticleEU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement: Blue Print for a Permanent Investment...
While everyone is busy discussing TTIP and the pro’s and con’s of Investment Arbitration as we know it, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced on December 2, 2015 that European Union and...
View ArticleFederal Supreme Court: Sedelmayer vs. Russia – No Set-off with Tax Claims
This decision published by the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) a couple of days ago on its website appears to be the latest instalment in the on-going saga of Franz Sedelmayer’s quest to...
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