Late last year, members of IMI’s Investor-State Mediation Taskforce responded to an EU Commission public consultation on “the protection and facilitation of investment within the EU”. The aim of the...
Category: Investor-State Taskforce
“There is increasing interest in the potential for mediation to resolve Investor-State disputes. Recent international treaties contain specific provisions on the use of mediation in such disputes, and much work...
Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) has to date been dominated by arbitration. However, stakeholders have called for new mechanisms, such as mediation, to settle investor-state disputes. This article is designed...
The video and summary for the recent IMI-SIMI Investor-State Mediation roundtable is now available. Featuring Judith Knieper (UNCITRAL), Mark Appel (IMI ISDS Taskforce member and former Chair), Alejandro Carballo Leyda...
This week has seen some excellent webinars, including Tony Nguyen’s presentation on Vietnam and the Singapore Convention on Mediation on Wednesday, and an UNCITRAL WGIII session on mediation and its...
IMI was a delegate at the 2019 ISDS Mediation Colloquium at Harvard University last December, convened by Wolf von Kumberg, IDR Managing Director, former IMI Board Chair and current IMI...
Two fantastic events on investor-state mediation are taking place online shortly, including an IMI-SIMI ‘Expert Roundtable’ convened by Wolf von Kumberg, and a UNCITRAL webinar aimed at demystifying the use...
Pierrick LeGoff steps in as Deborah Masucci departs from her role as IMI Board Chair After joining the IMI Board in 2012 and overseeing its activities as Board Co-Chair for...
Host states vulnerable to claims by foreign companies for obstructing business and investment with new public health regulations that aim to ‘flatten the curve’ on Covid-19 and protect community wellbeing...
Yesterday Wolf von Kumberg gave a presentation on investor-state disputes in the new era of the Singapore Convention, followed by a Q&A session. Watch the video below, download a summary...
The work of IMI’s investor-state taskforce has continued to make in-roads, collaborating with the International Energy Charter, UNCITRAL, and ICSID. Most recently, the Energy Charter’s Model Instrument, supported by IMI,...
IMI’s Investor-State Taskforce has received significant support from ICSID, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. In this article, ICSID Senior Legal Counsel Frauke Nitschke details how ICSID is working...