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02 March 2016

"Legal scrubbing" of the CETA results in adoption of an Investment Court System for resolving Investor-State disputes: a clear signal to the US for the TTIP negotiations?

On Friday 26 September 2014, after five years of negotiations, the EU and Canada released the agreed text for the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement …

29 February 2016

TTIP: 12th Round of Negotiations concludes, investment protection remains high on the agenda; plus newly published CETA text includes EU's Investment Court System proposal

The 12th Round of Negotiation of the TTIP, which concluded last week in Brussels, provided the first opportunity for the negotiating parties to discuss …

13 November 2015

European Commission formally presents proposed Investment Chapter for TTIP to the US

Yesterday, 12 November, the EU formally presented its proposed language for the Investment Chapter of the TTIP to the US. As discussed in our earlier …

18 September 2015

European Commission publishes draft investment chapter for the TTIP, including investment protection provisions and the establishment of an International Investment Court

On 16 September the European Commission published detailed draft proposals for the investment chapter in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment …

19 June 2015

Upcoming webinar: The changing landscape of Investment Treaty arbitration - Tuesday 23 June 2015 - 12.45pm BST

There has never been a time of greater public engagement in the whole system of Investment Treaties and the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) …

19 May 2015

EU Commission issues “Concept Paper” on ISDS in the TTIP and beyond: proposals for “profound reform”

Further to its report on the outcome of the consultation on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement in the TTIP, the EU Commission …

12 May 2015

Herbert Smith Freehills and Chatham House event on TTIP: meeting report now available

As reported in our previous post, on Wednesday 4th March Herbert Smith Freehills hosted an event in partnership with Chatham House (the Royal Institute …

30 March 2015

Company vs Country: BBC documentary on investor-state dispute settlement on BBC Radio 4 tonight

After decades of governments concluding international investment agreements, reservations concerning free trade agreements (such as the TTIP, between the …

06 March 2015

Herbert Smith Freehills hosts TTIP event in partnership with Chatham House

On Wednesday 4th March Herbert Smith Freehills hosted an event in partnership with Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs, London), …

20 February 2015

The European Parliament's study on arbitration legal instruments and practice in the EU and Switzerland: a step towards a uniform European regime on arbitration?

Two weeks ago the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs published a broad study on the legal …

16 February 2015

Forthcoming Chatham House and Herbert Smith Freehills Symposium: "TTIP: shaping the future for investor-state dispute settlement" – 4 March 2015

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US, two of the world's largest economies, is intended to remove …

14 January 2015

Investment protection and ISDS in the TTIP: the discussion continues with more consultation around the corner

Yesterday afternoon, the EU Commission issued its Report on the outcome of the public consultation on the inclusion of investment protection and …