2022 in Review, Investment Disputes, Investor-State arbitration, ISDS, Latin America

(Herbert Smith Freehills), (BakerHostetler), and (Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados – BMA)/ /Leave a comment

2022 was a year of change and action with important developments in investment arbitration in Latin America.  The region continues to top the ICSID investment arbitration caseload, accounting for  28% of the total of registered cases by June 2022. In 2022, states and arbitral institutions sought to modernize investment protections and their institutional frameworks. In…

2022 in Review, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru

(Herbert Smith Freehills), (Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados – BMA), and (BakerHostetler)/ /Leave a comment

After struggling with the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 remained a period of transition for Latin America.  New arbitration rules and protocols were adopted in jurisdictions such as Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico that reflected best practices born out of the limitations placed on arbitrations by the pandemic.  Other jurisdictions such as Colombia, Chile…