Protection and risk – Foreign Investment

Foreign Investment

Our part­ners have repre­sen­ted sta­tes, sta­te-owned com­pa­nies and inves­tors in trea­ty- or inter­na­tio­nal com­mer­cial arbi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings con­cer­ning for­eign invest­ments. A/L/M Part­ners also have spe­ci­fic legal exper­ti­se in the finan­cing of such dis­pu­tes and their con­ti­nua­tion at the enforce­ment stage. 

Relevant matters include:

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te against a for­eign inves­tor in an inter­na­tio­nal SCC arbi­tra­ti­on based on the Ener­gy Char­ter Trea­ty after the refu­sal of the envi­ron­men­tal per­mit for a gas-fired power plant pro­ject and the project’s fail­ure to pass the envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ment (EIA)

Repre­sen­ting the Minis­try of Infra­struc­tu­re and Ener­gy of a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te, the Natio­nal Agen­cy for Natu­ral Resour­ces, and the sta­te ‑owned oil com­pa­ny in an inter­na­tio­nal ICC arbi­tra­ti­on under Swiss law against an inves­tor regis­tered in the Cayman Islands in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­ti­on of petro­le­um sha­ring agreements

Repre­sen­ting the sta­te-owned oil com­pa­ny of a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean coun­try in a UNCITRAL arbi­tra­ti­on sea­ted in Switz­er­land against an insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tor of an oil com­pa­ny and its liti­ga­ti­on fun­der fol­lo­wing the ter­mi­na­ti­on of petro­le­um sha­ring agree­ments for breach of con­tract and envi­ron­men­tal law

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te against an oil and gas inves­tor in an UNCITRAL arbi­tra­ti­on con­cer­ning, inter alia, ille­ga­li­ty and brea­ches of mining- and con­ces­si­on law

Repre­sen­ting a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te in an ICSID arbi­tra­ti­on against an inves­tor in the oil and gas sec­tor over regu­la­to­ry mea­su­res taken after the start of the war in Ukraine

Repre­sen­ting the sta­te-owned elec­tri­ci­ty grid pro­vi­der of a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean sta­te in VIAC arbi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings sea­ted in Aus­tria against a finan­cial ser­vices pro­vi­der from the Bri­tish Vir­gin Islands (for­eign law, various chall­enge pro­cee­dings) and advi­sing the cli­ent in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­ti­on of debt coll­ec­tion con­tracts and par­al­lel court- and cri­mi­nal proceedings

Advi­sing a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean inves­tor against the Sta­te of Turk­me­ni­stan on the enforce­ment of an ICC arbi­tral award (and against an appli­ca­ti­on to deny enforce­ment) in Germany

Advi­sing an Asi­an sta­te-owned enter­pri­se on the defence against the attempt­ed enforce­ment of an arbi­tral award against a sta­te in five Euro­pean countries

Enfor­cing a Sou­the­ast Euro­pean arbi­tral award on a dairy invest­ment for an inves­tor and an inter­na­tio­nal debt coll­ec­tion com­pa­ny in Ger­ma­ny; ex par­te sei­zu­re of assets in Ger­ma­ny and advi­sing on a sett­le­ment solution 

Advi­sing a Ger­man bank on the finan­cing of an invest­ment arbi­tra­ti­on against Spain: Revie­w­ing finan­cing agree­ments, finan­cing con­di­ti­ons, and finan­cing risks