By Turgut Aycan Özcan & Timuçin Demir Everything concerning the Kılıç Ad-Hoc Committee’s Decision on Annulment of course started with the decision rendered in the ICSID case between a Turkish construction company, Kılıç İnşaat İthalat İhracat Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (“Kılıç”), and Turkmenistan. Kılıç had filed an ICSID case (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/01) against Turkmenistan […]
Collective Arbitration Against Russia By Ukrainian Businesses Expropriated In The Crimea
Collective Arbitration Against Russia By Ukrainian Businesses Expropriated In The Crimea Is collective arbitration against Russia for the expropriations of Ukrainian assets occurring in Crimea possible? An article in the New York Times dating from 11 January 2015 notes that the plunder of Ukrainian-owned assets is continuing in the Crimea on a large scale today. Armed forces known as the “people’s militia” are invading […]
Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies Reports On Dispute Against Belarus
Below, please find a recent article about our client’s investment dispute against the Republic of Belarus, which concerns his wrongful imprisonment for six years in inhuman conditions, following the expropriation of his seamless steel tube plant, located in Gomel, with no compensation. – William Kirtley A Ukrainian businessman and his Swiss company accuse Belarus of […]
The IA Reporter Discusses The First Belarus Investment Treaty Arbitration
First Investment Treaty Arbitration Against Belarus. Luke Peterson’s Investment Arbitration Reporter has recently published an article on the first reported investment treaty arbitration against Belarus, the last remaining rogue State in Europe. The USD 175 million arbitration is being launched by William Kirtley and Christophe Dugué of one of the leading Paris-based arbitration boutiques, Dugué & Kirtley, […]
Chevron Wins Arbitration Victory Against Ecuador
Below, please find a solid non-legal summary of the latest state of the long-running Chevron v. Ecuador arbitral proceedings, one of the messiest and most interesting investment treaty arbitrations to have occurred over the past decade. – William Kirtley In an apparent coup for the oil giant’s efforts to undermine a $19 billion environmental judgment […]