August 2008 - News and Commentary - Investment Treaty News (ITN)

Ecuador threatens cancellation of oil contracts unless ICSID nixed as arbitration forum

By Fernando Cabrera Diaz 29 August, 2008 The Ecuadorian government will consider contracts with oil companies terminated unless they remove the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) as the venue of arbitration. The threat comes...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 9:06 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Ecuador, oil contracts

Duke Energy International Peru Investments No. 1 Ltd. v. Republic of Peru: Foreign investors in Peru are guaranteed tax stability

By Elizabeth Whitsitt 29 August 2008 In one of two ICSID awards handed down in August involving the US firm Duke Energy, a Tribunal has found the Republic of Peru liable to Duke Energy International Peru Investments No. 1 Ltd. (DEI Bermuda) for damages...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 9:02 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Award, Peru, Tax Stabilization Guarantee

Duke Energy Electroquil Partners and Electroquil SA v Ecuador: Ecuador found liable for breaches of power purchase agreements and investment treaty

By Damon Vis-Dunbar 29 August 2008 The electricity provider Electroquil SA has been awarded US$ 5,578,566 plus interest stemming from several breaches of power purchase agreements (PPAs) backed by the government of Ecuador. While Ecuador was also found...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 8:58 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Award, umbrella clause, fair and equitable treatment, Power Purchase Agreement

Entrevista con Alejandro Faya-Rodríguez, asesor jurídico especial, Ministerio de Economía mexicano

Alejandro Faya-Rodríguez fue Director General Adjunto de Asuntos Internacionales de la Dirección General de Inversión Extranjera del Ministerio de Economía de México hasta marzo pasado. En dicho cargo negoció...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 3:54 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: México, bilaterales de inversión, entrevista, Nación Más Favorecida, Spanish

News in Brief: Tribunal declines jurisdiction in African Holding Company of America, INC et Société Africaine de construction au Congo SARL (SAFRICA) v. République Démocratique du Congo

By Suzy H. Nikièma 13 August 2008 An ICSID tribunal has declined jurisdiction in a dispute over a failed construction contract between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and two U.S. investors. Two members of the three-person tribunal held...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:00 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Democratic Republic of Congo, jurisdiction, ratione temporis

News: An update on the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements

By Suzy H. Nikièma and Damon Vis-Dunbar 8 August 2008 Over the last six years the European Commission and 77 African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) countries have been negotiating free trade agreements, which they call Economic Partnership Agreements...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 5:04 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: European Commission, Economic Partnership Agreement, CEMAC, ECOWAS

Commentary: A case for an international investment court

By Gus Van Harten Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University 7 August 2008 I shall lay out an argument for an international investment court, not because I wish to associate myself with grandiose schemes for international reform, but...

Published Thu, Aug 07 2008 10:45 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: commentary, public law, international investment court

South American alternative to ICSID in the works as governments create an energy treaty

By Fernando Cabrera Diaz 6 August 2008 A July 16-17 meeting of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (comprised of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Nicaragua, and Venezuela)* ended without public mention of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment...

Published Wed, Aug 06 2008 3:23 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ALBA, ICSID, Energy Security Treaty

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