On Thursday 11 April 2013, Herbert Smith Freehills delivered a live audio webinar entitled: 'A Beginner’s Guide to BITs: What are they and why do you need them?’. The webinar – an online seminar delivered to individual desktops – was hugely successful and hundreds of listeners from around the world participated.
If you would like to listen to a recording of the webinar, please contact Prudence Heidemans.
The session looked at Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), which give investors direct rights to sue foreign states hosting their investments. These rights enable investors to protect their business interests abroad more effectively than ever before. It covered the basic principles that you need to be aware of when structuring your investment to maximise treaty protection as well important issues to consider when bringing a claim under a BIT.
Our panel was comprised of Matthew Weiniger, who leads our Investment Arbitration practice and is based in our London office. Matthew was joined by Dominic Roughton and Brenda Horrigan, partners in our Shanghai and Tokyo offices respectively. It was chaired by Joanne Greenaway, a Professional Support Lawyer for the Global Arbitration practice.
This webinar was the first in a series of webinars that we will be presenting looking at investment treaty issues of both a topical and regional nature.
We are interested in your views as to what you would be most interested in attending both on investment treaty issues and on international arbitration more broadly. Please open the link to our short Survey Monkey and feed in your views:
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Key contacts
Simon Chapman KC
Managing Partner, Dispute Resolution and Global Co-Head – International Arbitration, Hong Kong
Andrew Cannon
Partner, Global Co-Head of International Arbitration and of Public International Law, London
Kathryn Sanger
Partner, Head of China and Japan, Dispute Resolution, Co-Head of Private Capital, Asia, Hong Kong
Christian Leathley
Partner, Co-Head of the Latin America Group, Co-Head of the Public International Law Group, US Head of International Arbitration, London
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