Claims Trading

Bankruptcy, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, China, Claims Trading, Enforcement, HK Arbitration Week, Hong Kong, Insolvency, Singapore

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HK45

Allen & Overy’s webinar on the second day of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2022 brought together six practitioners from the fields of arbitration, insolvency and enforcement to discuss the key practical and strategic considerations when acting for and against parties in financial distress. Guided through a hypothetical case study involving jurisdictions such as Hong Kong,…

Arbitration Agreement, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Awards, Arbitration clause, Claims Trading

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This post examines the admissibility of investment claim assignments based on the notion of Investor-State arbitration where there is no contractual relationship between the disputing parties. To do so, it draws on Jan Paulsson’s famous article titled Arbitration Without Privity.   Contract Assignments, Assignment of Claim and Arbitration Agreements The assignment of international contracts is…

Claims Trading, Investment Arbitration, Investor-State arbitration

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

For all the talk about third party funding, little has been said about the buying and selling of claims outright – what I call “claims trading”. A forthcoming article is the first to survey all the known instances of claims trading in international investment arbitration. It reviews more than forty decisions in which tribunals or…