by rw | Jun 20, 2018 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties, NAFTA
By: Beatriz Leycegui Beatriz Leycegui leads the international trade practice at SAI Law & Economics in Mexico City (“SAI”). She served as undersecretary of the Ministry of the Economy from 2007-2011 where she negotiated numerous international trade and investment...
by rw | Dec 7, 2017 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Multilateral Investment Treaties, NAFTA
By: Fernando González-Rojas Some defenders of the recently launched NAFTA renegotiation process believe that the prevalence of low wages in Mexico has ‘stolen’ jobs from United States, diverted direct investment towards Mexico and rendered made-in-the-U.S.A. goods...
by rw | Dec 7, 2017 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties, NAFTA
By: Carlos Véjar The US Government announced recently that one of its objectives in the renegotiation of NAFTA is the elimination of NAFTA’s dispute settlement chapter dealing with administrative determinations on unfair trade practices (anti-dumping and...
by rw | May 23, 2014 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties, ICSID, Investment Disputes and Arbitration
For some years, robert wray PLLC has analyzed the way in which governments, particularly in Latin America, can mitigate the risk of being sued in an investor-state dispute (ISD) and improve their chances of a successful defense for those cases that actually go to...
by rw | Nov 14, 2012 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties
In April of this year the US State Department released a new version of its model bilateral investment treaty (BIT). This text, like the various models the US has used over roughly the past 3 decades, represents the US’s basic policy position when it starts...
by rw | Nov 1, 2011 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties, Political Risk Insurance
For decades, a commonly held belief among international investment lawyers has been that while bilateral investment treaties (BITs) may not necessarily be crucially important for foreign investment decisions, they have an important indirect effect: BITs lower the...
