Argentina, Awards, BIT, foreign direct investment, ICSID, ICSID Arbitration, Insurance, International arbitration, Investor, Investor-State arbitration, Jurisdiction, Political Risk Insurance

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” (Anaïs Nin) Introduction and background On 12 July 2017, CMS Hong Kong and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) hosted the fourth joint lecture in their quarterly series focusing on the…

Enforcement, Investment, Investor, ISDS, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Singapore, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

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In early March 2017, the Singapore High Court released a judgment in which it considered an important question of enforcement of investor-state awards. In Josias Van Zyl v Kingdom of Lesotho [2017] SGHCR 2, AR Pereira was asked to decide whether an order to enforce a final award in a treaty dispute administered by the…