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Argentina agrees $217 million arbitration deal with energy companies
16-May-2016 Business Recorder
Argentina has agreed to pay $217 million to two energy companies in long-standing arbitration cases stemming from its 2001/02 economic crisis.
Obama’s economic omens in Argentina
14-Apr-2016 Marcha
Obama’s visit to our country has left behind a host of controversies. Set out below, are the omens he made on economic affairs.
We oppose the negotiations of the EU-Mercosur FTA going forward
14-Apr-2016 CADTM
We, ATTAC Argentina, members of the CADTM – AYNA network, express our opposition to the negotiations, recently relaunched by the Mauricio Macri government, to sign a Free Trade Treaty (FTA) between the countries of Mercosur and the European Union.
The Mexican FTA that Macri wants for Argentina
14-Apr-2016 IADE
The tale of a disaster waiting to happen? Mauricio Macri promised to open up to imports. And there is no doubt that he will do this.
Dette : l’Argentine prête à verser 50 millions à BNP Paribas
4-Apr-2016 Les Echos
Dans le sillage des accords avec les fonds « vautours », Buenos Aires accepte de verser 52 millions de dollars à BNP Paribas.
Argentina and the United States sign agreements on trade, security and anti-drug trafficking
24-Mar-2016 The Bubble
In a historic moment, ministers from Argentina and The United States signed bilateral agreements this morning.
How can governments deal with #ISDS claims?
7-Mar-2016 Todd N. Tucker
A research provides a set of pragmatic tools for governments on the receiving end of legal claims.
Mercosur delays free-trade offer to EU
23-Feb-2016 Buenos Aires Herald
The reason for the delay of the exchange of offers lies on the EU request for the Mercosur bloc to increase the total trade volume to be included in the final agreement.
Argentina and the TPP: Opening up to the World and Falling into an Abyss
10-Feb-2016 Notas
At the dawn of the Bicentenary of Independence, Argentina has a president whose ideological and political inclination stresses the country’s need to “open itself up to the world”, a euphemism that refers to strengthening trade and financial dependence on the international economic centres of the North: the United States and the European Union.
ICSID orders Argentina to pay US$136 million plus interest for contractual breaches
8-Feb-2016 América Economía
The ICSID, the World Bank’s international arbitration tribunal, ordered Argentina to pay 136.1 million dollars plus interest to the companies, EDF International, Saur International and León Participaciones Argentinas for breach of contract.
Argentina agrees to pay Italian bond holders including “a reasonable interest”
5-Feb-2016 Merco Press
Argentina announced that it reached a $900 million preliminary accord to settle its pending debt with 50,000 Italian holders of defaulted Argentine government bonds. The Italian bondholders had sought about $2.5 billion at the ICSID.
Chilean social groups to protest Monsanto, anti-democratic TPP
22-Jan-2016 Tele Sur
Citizen opposition to the signing of the TPP will take place throughout the region, with joint mobilizations taking place in Peru and Argentina.
Abertis hauls Argentina’s new government before the World Bank on account of two motorways
22-Dec-2015 El Diario
Abertis has hauled Argentina’s Attorney General’s Treasury Office before the World Bank’s Arbitration Dispute Settlement body (known as ICSID) for freezing tariffs applied to two concessions for motorways controlled by the Spanish company in Argentina.
South American presidents ‘confident’ of EU trade deal
8-Dec-2015 EurActiv
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her Argentinian counterpart, Mauricio Macri, have expressed confidence that the EU is committed to brokering a trade agreement with Mercosur.
Gov’t accuses Marsans group of ’selling’ ICSID lawsuit to vulture fund
15-Sep-2015 Buenos Aires Herald
Litigation finance treats litigation claims as financeable assets, just like real estate or receivables
Why Argentina’s petition to vacate an wward in AWG Group Ltd v. Republic of Argentina matters for future arbitrations
18-Aug-2015 JD Supra
Argentina filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a petition to vacate an UNCITRAL arbitration award, which could have broader implications for determining partiality of arbitrators.
Opinion: crisis, emergency measures and failure of the ISDS system: the case of Argentina
12-Aug-2015 Inter Press Service
The dozens of cases that were initiated against Argentina as a result of the outburst of one of its worst economic and financial crises in late 2001 became an often-quoted sad illustration of many of these shortcomings of the ISDS system.
Stopping the corporate power grab — it’s not all just about TTIP
25-May-2015 The Ecologist
In the rush to oppose TTIP we mustn’t lose sight of the context in which the deal is being negotiated — the hundreds of bilateral treaties that give corporations the right to sue in secret ’trade courts’.
Disputes between States and multinationals - The paradigm: The dispute between Suez and Argentina
14-Apr-2015 Observatoire des Multinationales
An international arbitral tribunal has just ordered Argentina to pay nearly 400 million Euro to Suez because in 2006, after years of conflict, Argentina renationalized the water services in Buenos Aires.
Argentina strikes out in bid to undo $185M BG Group award
4-Nov-2014 Litigation Daily
The Supreme Court on Monday shunned the republic’s latest appeal in a decade-long battle with BG Group plc, a British energy company that won a $185 million arbitration ruling against Argentina under a bilateral investment treaty.