Investor-State Dispute Resolution

Investor-State dispute resolution is at the core of our practice and we advise on all matters related to international investment law more generally.  Our team members possess deep experience in investment structuring and treaty planning, assessing the merits of potential claims, and representing investors and States in proceedings administered by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague (PCA), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), as well as ad hoc claims brought under the Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). 

Some representative experience of our team members includes advising: 

—European cyber security firm in investment treaty planning and pre-dispute matters relating to its operations in Ukraine

—Foreign investor against an Eastern European State in UNCITRAL investment treaty claim arising out of a mining project

—Third-Party Funder in decision whether to fund investment treaty claim against a CIS State relating to expropriation of assets in the mining sector

—Central Asian State and State-owned enterprise in SCC proceedings conducted in Russian in dispute concerning the construction of a waste-management facility

—Foreign investor in ICSID investment treaty claim against an African State concerning the construction of a port in the Red Sea

—French energy company in ICSID annulment proceedings relating to arbitral award against Argentina in the gas and electricity transport sector

—Central Asian State in ICSID proceedings brought by CIS investors in the telecommunications sector

—Eastern European State in two UNCITRAL investment treaty claims concerning regulatory actions taken in the banking sector

—Foreign investors in two investment treaty arbitrations (ICSID and UNCITRAL) against Egypt following the destruction of the “Peace Pipeline” and cessation of gas supply from Egypt to Israel during the Arab Spring