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Download the 1 September 2008 issue of ITN
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As a negotiator for the Mexican Government, Alejandro Faya-Rodriguez, led talks on 10 bilateral investment treaties and an investment chapter within a free trade agreement. He recently moved to a new post as a special legal advisor to the Ministry of Economy.
Mr. Faya-Rodriguez spoke to ITN about the responsibilities of an investment treaty negotiator, his toughest negotiations, and where he sees the international investment law regime headed in the future. Read more ...
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By Elizabeth Whitsitt - 29 August 2008
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In one of two ICSID awards handed down in August involving the US firm Duke Energy, a Tribunal has found the Republic of Peru liable to Duke Energy International Peru Investments No. 1 Ltd. (DEI Bermuda) for damages totaling US$ 18,440,746 plus interest after the SUNAT, Peru’s National Tax Administration Superintendency, found DEI Bermuda liable for tax underpayments, interest and penalties equaling some US$ 48.3 million for the years 1996-1999.
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By Damon Vis-Dunbar - 29 August 2008
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The electricity provider Electroquil SA has been awarded US$ 5,578,566 plus interest stemming from several breaches of power purchase agreements (PPAs) backed by the government of Ecuador. While Ecuador was also found to have breached the Ecuador-US bilateral investment treaty, those violations did not result in additional monetary damages.
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By Fernando Cabrera Diaz - 29 August 2008
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The Ecuadorian government will consider contracts with oil companies terminated unless they remove the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) as the venue of arbitration. The threat comes as the Andean nation considers domestic legal reforms which would make it unconstitutional for the country to be involved in arbitrations in venues outside of Latin America.
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By Gus Van Harten - 7 August 2008
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I shall lay out an argument for an international investment court, not because I wish to associate myself with grandiose schemes for international reform, but because I see it as the most pragmatic and appropriate way to fix serious problems in the existing system of investment treaty arbitration.
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