Anti-enforcement Injunction

Anti-enforcement Injunction, Energy Charter Treaty, Enforcement, Germany, Injunction, Intra-EU Investment Arbitration, Intra-EU ISDS, Investment Arbitration, Spain

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On 12 April 2024, the Regional Court of Essen (“LG Essen”) dismissed Spain’s request for an anti-enforcement injunction of an intra-EU investor-state arbitration award (2 O 447/22). The LG Essen held that anti-enforcement injunctions are inadmissible because they violate state sovereignty. This blog post will cover the facts and background of the decision, examine the…

Anti-enforcement Injunction, Energy Charter Treaty, Enforcement, Netherlands, Spain

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On 28 February 2020, two Dutch investors obtained a favourable arbitral award against Spain. The tribunal found that Spain had violated the Energy Charter and ordered Spain to pay damages of EUR 15.4 million to AES Solar Energy Coöperatief U.A. (AES) and EUR 11.1 million to Ampere Equity Fund B.V. (AEF). Despite Spain’s attempts to…

Anti-enforcement Injunction, Anti-suit injunction, Comity, Conflict of Laws, Enforcement, English courts, Situs of a Debt

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In the recent decision in SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 599 (“SAS”), the English Court of Appeal addressed issues including the situs of a debt, the proper approach to anti-enforcement injunctions, and how considerations of comity arise in the enforcement of foreign decisions.   Facts In 2009, SAS, a North…