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Evolution of Kosovo’s Investment Arbitration Law: Defining the Foreign Investor and the State’s Role in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

04/L-220 on Foreign Investment (hereinafter, the “2014 Law on Foreign Investment”), which safeguarded foreign investors as a key element in promoting international economic cooperation and attracting foreign capital, has now been replaced by Law No. Kosovo Law No.

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Whistleblower Suits Lead to Massive Rite Aid Settlements Relating to Opioid Dispensing and Reporting Rebates

Whistleblower Network News

According to the government, Rite Aid and its subsidiaries “improperly reported to CMS portions of rebates received from manufacturers as bona fide service fees, even though manufacturers did not negotiate with the defendants to pay such fees.” million and grant the government an allowed, unsubordinated, general unsecured claim of $401.8

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

Since 2016, Mongolia has been working to establish a new model BIT to guide the negotiation of new BITs and the renegotiation of existing BITs. While some provisions address investor concerns, the mandatory negotiation period and the resolution council may add layers of complexities.

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McCarter & English Bolsters National Government Affairs Practice with Addition of Former Connecticut Senate Democrats Chief of Staff Vincent Mauro, Jr.

Government Contracts & Global Trade

Vin has a track record of developing policy, high-level negotiations, and reaching across political lines to achieve successful outcomes.” He worked as special counsel to the Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2014 before being named Chief of Staff in 2015. at Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002.*

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

I will not focus on the detail of procurement rules, which is better left to in-depth analysis (eg Arrowsmith [2014] and [2018] , Steinicke and Vesterdorf [2018] , or Caranta and Sanchez-Graells [2021] ). Regulation in the EU and the UK , vols 1 & 2 (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2014 and 2018).

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Wait Too Long and You Might Miss Sum-Thing: ASBCA Again Underscores that Failure to Timely Raise Sum-Certain Defense Can Result in Forfeiture Under New Federal Circuit Precedent

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The underlying appeal dated back to 2014, but the government chose to wait until 2020, after earlier negotiations and a nine-day merits hearing, to challenge the Board’s jurisdiction. Army reversed longstanding precedent that a claim must state a “sum certain” for a board or court to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal.

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Pakistani Energy Sector Parties Challenge Arbitration Awards in the English High Court on the Grounds of ‘Serious Irregularity’

Kluwer Arbitration

These are important considerations for contracting parties negotiating the seat of arbitration in any contract. A careful and thorough appreciation of the factual and legal matrix of each dispute and subsequent arbitral award is needed before approaching the courts.