BIT, Enforcement, India, Investment Disputes, Investor-State arbitration, Jurisdiction, Set aside an arbitral award, Singapore, Switzerland
No “Third Bite at the Cherry”: Singaporean and Swiss Courts Reject State’s Jurisdictional Objections in Enforcement and Set-aside Proceedings
In 2013, Deutsche Telekom AG (“DT”), a German corporation, commenced an UNCITRAL arbitration in Switzerland under the Germany-India BIT claiming that India had (amongst other things) breached the fair and equitable treatment (“FET”) standard. In the arbitration, India raised various jurisdictional objections, which the Tribunal rejected in an Interim Award issued on 13 December 2017….