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Global: Annual Compliance Conference 2024 (webinar series)

Import and Trade Remedies

We invite you to join us to gain practical insights and analysis on significant developments across: antitrust and competition export controls, sanctions and foreign investment customs and FTAs anti-bribery, corruption and economic crime ESG, supply chain and product compliance View the detailed agenda for all sessions during the conference.

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Congo Can't Escape $1.8B Awards Over Public Works Deals

Government Contracts

billion to Commissions Import Export SA after it rejected the country's allegations of corruption surrounding the prominent arbitrator Yves Derains, who chaired an underlying arbitration. A Paris arbitral tribunal has confirmed the Republic of the Congo must pay more than $1.82

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Is the Time Right for a Multilateral Investment Treaty?

Kluwer Arbitration

Some of the most appealing developments are discussed below: The Divide Bridged Between the Capital-Exporting and Capital-Importing Countries Toward the end of the 1990s, when the last attempt was made to negotiate the OECD MAI, FDI was exclusively flowing from developed to developing countries.

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Arbitration in the Era of Market Liberalization in Ethiopia

Kluwer Arbitration

In April 2024, a law passed by the Investment Authority opened the import, wholesale, retail and export (of raw coffee, khat, oilseeds, pulses, hides and skins, forest products, poultry and livestock bought from the local market) sectors to foreign investments.

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Italian Arbitration Day: The Geography of International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Nigeria arbitral award and the issue of fraud and corruption. Patocchi spoke about the issue of a challenges to awards on grounds of corruption or fraud tainting the proceedings. In Sorelec , the Paris CoA set aside the award even though the alleged corruption was not raised before the arbitral tribunal. He referred to Prof.

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Treating Symptoms or Root Causes? The Draft Statute of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution

Kluwer Arbitration

For capital-exporting economies, it offers a means to ease some of developing countries’ concerns about ISDS – and in this way, to shore up a dispute settlement system the perceived legitimacy of which is under growing pressure. One is that, as donor countries may also be major capital exporters, there is potential for conflicts of interest.

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2024 PAW: In Search of the Right Balance: The interplay between Human Rights, ESG, Civil Society and Investment Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Szabolcs Nagy kicked off the first round of the panel discussion by explaining the EU’s approach towards promoting and enhancing the importance of human rights and ESG, simultaneously to fostering economic development, as an integral part of its trade and investment treaty policy.

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