In a recent post on our Public International Law Notes blog, Dr. Patricia Nacimiento, Dr. Bajar Scharaw, Dr. Alessandro Covi and Dr. Lara Panosch consider the 27 July 2023 decision of the German Federal Court of Justice declaring two pending intra-EU ICSID arbitrations inadmissible under EU and German procedural law. You can read the full … Read more

In early October 2022, ICSID published its 2022 Annual Report (available here). The Annual Report provides an overview of ICSID’s activities during the past year, and discusses ICSID’s 2022 caseload, developments in membership, the emergence of new ICSID rules and the draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in International Investment Disputes. Read more

On 18 May 2022, an arbitral tribunal rendered its award in BSG Resources Limited (in Administration), BSG Resources (Guinea) Limited, BSG Resources (Guinea) Sàrl v Republic of Guinea (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/22) in favour of the Republic of Guinea (“Guinea“). Notably, in awarding costs, the tribunal treated as recoverable Guinea’s success fees under a private … Read more

On 4 August 2022, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its latest Annual Report for FY2022. We discuss the report in our new blog piece, published on our Public International Law blog here. Read more