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Bilateral Investment Treaty

Brazil and the Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreement (CFIA): A Step Backwards for Arbitration?

13/01/2018 by Aceris Law LLC

Brazil investment Arbitration

In 2015, as a result of the increase of Brazilian investment overseas, the Brazilian government, in consultation with private entities, elaborated so-called Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements (“CFIA”s – or “ACFI” in its Portuguese acronym). The CFIA’s aim was to facilitate and stimulate reciprocal investments between States, especially in strategic sectors, much like the Bilateral […]

Filed Under: Bilateral Investment Treaty, Brazil Arbitration, International Arbitration, Investment Arbitration

Consent in Investment Arbitration

05/01/2018 by Aceris Law LLC

Consent Investment Arbitration

Investment arbitration, like any arbitration, is a creature of contract. A party submitting a case to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (the “Centre”) therefore must ensure that their adversaries have consented to arbitrate. This article answers the ‘what, how, and when’ of consent in investment arbitration. What is “Consent”? Article 25(1) of […]

Filed Under: Bilateral Investment Treaty, ICSID Arbitration, International Arbitration, Investment Arbitration

Market Access of Foreign Investors under Bilateral Investment Treaties

02/11/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

Maket-Access-in-Bilateral-Investment-Treaties

Market access of foreign investors is the ultimate step for the entrance of foreign capital into a host country. Most countries today regulate the admission of the foreign direct investment through a special legal framework agreed with other countries and entities on a bilateral and sometimes multilateral level. By entering into such treaties, States agree […]

Filed Under: Bilateral Investment Treaty, Public International Law

Mytilineos v. The Republic of Serbia: Serbia Held Liable in Investment Arbitration

03/10/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

Serbia is liable

The 2013 Mytilineos v The Republic of Serbia investment arbitration came to an end in August 2017 and Serbia was found to have breached the applicable bilateral investment treaty. According to Mytilineos’s press release, the investment arbitration concerned RTB Bor, a copper mining and smelting company that was subject to privatization. While the Tribunal has […]

Filed Under: Arbitration Clause, Bilateral Investment Treaty, International Arbitration, Investment Arbitration, Serbia Arbitration

Enforcement of an ICSID Arbitration Award in the United Kingdom and EU Law

12/06/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

Enforcement of an ICSID Arbitration Award in the United Kingdom

The enforcement of an ICSID investment arbitration award in the United Kingdom can be a complex matter, especially when doing so would arguably violate EU law. In January 2017, the UK High Court delivered a judgement to stay enforcement proceedings of the final ICSID award in the case of Ioan Micula and others v Romania, […]

Filed Under: Bilateral Investment Treaty, ICSID Arbitration, Investment Arbitration, Romania Arbitration, Sweden Arbitration, United Kingdom Arbitration

MALICORP LIMITED V. THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT (ICSID CASE NO. ARB/08/18) – AWARD

02/06/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

Malicorp v Egypt

The dispute between Malicorp Ltd, an English Company, and the Republic of Egypt, arose out of the allegedly illegal termination of a concession contract amounting to a violation of the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Egypt of 1975 (the “BIT”). In 2000, Malicorp was awarded a […]

Filed Under: Arbitration Clause, Award on Costs, Bilateral Investment Treaty, Commercial Arbitration, Egypt Arbitration, ICSID Arbitration, International Arbitration, United Kingdom Arbitration

FRAPORT AG FRANKFURT AIRPORT SERVICES WORLDWIDE V. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (ICSID CASE NO.ARB/03/25) – DECISION ON THE APPLICATION FOR ANNULMENT – 23 December 2010

28/05/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

FRAPORT AG FRANKFURT AIRPORT SERVICES WORLDWIDE V. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

This dispute concerned Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide’s (“Fraport”) application for annulment of an ICSID award issued on 16 August 2007. This arbitral award had been the result of a dispute in relation to a concession agreement for the construction and operation of a terminal at the international airport in Manila. In 2002, Respondent, […]

Filed Under: Bilateral Investment Treaty, Germany Arbitration, ICSID Arbitration, Philippines Arbitration

Aceris Law Co-Sponsors International Arbitration Conference

28/05/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

Arbitration Conference

Aceris Law is co-sponsoring an international arbitration conference with Hogan Lovells, Dechert, White & Case and Dentons, to be held on 2 June 2017 at the Centre Panthéon in Paris, France. The conference will be composed of a series of round table discussions including a variety of distinguished speakers in the field of international arbitration. […]

Filed Under: About Aceris, Bilateral Investment Treaty, Investment Arbitration

BURIMI SRL AND EAGLE GAMES SH.A V. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA (ICSID CASE NO. ARB/11/18) AWARD – 28 May 2013

28/05/2017 by Aceris Law LLC

BURIMI SRL AND EAGLE GAMES SH.A V. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

This ill-fated case was governed by the Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments concluded between Italy and the Albania (“BIT”), Albania’s Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) and the ICSID Convention and Arbitration Rules. In 2004, Eagle Games, a lottery tickets company, applied for a gambling permit from Albania’s Finance Ministry and was awarded a […]

Filed Under: Albania Arbitration, Arbitration Clause, Bilateral Investment Treaty, ICSID Arbitration

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