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Enforcement of foreign awards, the India-UAE BIT, and international law
25-Feb-2025 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The new bilateral investment treaty between India and the United Arab Emirates clarifies concerns around enforcing investor-State awards in India—at least for this BIT.
Model Bilateral Investment Treaty to be made more investor friendly: FM
3-Feb-2025 The Hindu BusinessLine
Revamp will help expedite new BITs with partner countries; may push FTA talks.
Bilateral investment treaty and FTAs are two separate pacts; should continue to remain so: Sources
23-Dec-2024 The Economic Times
Demands of certain developed countries from India to negotiate ’investment protection’ elements under an FTA is inappropriate as negotiating the matter as part of a separate chapter under the trade pact could have larger and detrimental implications.
Panthera Resources’ arbitration re-rating possibility too large to ignore, suggests broker
10-Dec-2024 Proactive
Panthera Resources PLC has been highlighted by VSA Capital as one of a growing number of small caps offering potentially significant upside via international litigation.
India-EU FTA: Investment chapter to include FDI liberalisation, exclude protection, arbitration
4-Dec-2024 The Hindu BusinessLine
The proposed India-EU Free Trade Agreement is likely to focus on investment liberalisation, while keeping investment protection and arbitration out of the pact, to be negotiated separately in a bilateral investment treaty.
A bilateral investment treaty with a ‘bit’ of change
22-Nov-2024 The Hindu
Despite some departures, the India-UAE bilateral investment treaty establishes a continuity of India’s investment treaty practice.
FinMin not keen on inclusion of BIT in free trade pacts: Sources
15-Nov-2024 The Hindu BusinessLine
Investment chapters in India FTAs may be limited to investment promotion, facilitation.
Vedanta parent moves Permanent Court of Arbitration against Indian govt
15-Nov-2024 Mint
UK-based Vedanta Resources Ltd raising a dispute against the government of India brings the challenges of investor-state arbitration into limelight.
India, UAE investment promotion, protection treaty comes into effect from August 31: Finance ministry
7-Oct-2024 The Hindu
Enforcement of this pact with the UAE gives continuity of investment protection to investors of both the countries.
The India-EFTA deal: A model for developing countries
21-Jun-2024 South Centre
Governments are shifting from investor-state dispute mechanisms to treaties that encourage and ease investment.
Non-European Union states keen on investment agreements with India
10-May-2024 Hindustan Times
Several non-European Union states are keen on finalising bilateral investment treaties with India to boost the potential for investments and to address concerns of investors on matters such as dispute resolution.
PMO asks commerce min to examine model text of bilateral investment treaty
9-Apr-2024 Business Standard
India’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the commerce ministry to examine the model text of the bilateral investment treaty and suggest modifications to further improve the ease of doing business.
Switzerland seeks bilateral investment treaty with India
4-Apr-2024 The Times of India
Switzerland pursues a new bilateral investment treaty with India post EFTA deal, addressing model treaty concerns.India remains reluctant on concessions, focusing on market.
Panthera subsidiary notifies Indian government over Bhukia dispute
3-Jan-2024 Morning Star
Panthera, a gold exploration company with assets in India, said that its subsidiary Indo Gold Pty Ltd had issued a notice of dispute to the Indian government over the latter’s breach of the 1999 Australia-India bilateral investment treaty.
An India-UK investment treaty might soon be clinched
3-Nov-2023 Mint
India and UK seem to have moved towards common ground on dispute settlement, which was the most controversial part of the bilateral investment treaty.
India-UK FTA: Efforts on to also finalise dispute settlement in investment pact
25-Oct-2023 The Hindu BusinessLine
Full-throttle efforts are being made to ensure India-UK FTA and BIT, get finalised simultaneously.
India, UAE discuss bilateral investment treaty
6-Oct-2023 Mint
India and the UAE discussed a bilateral investment treaty that could see the UAE invest in India’s renewable energy, health, semiconductor and asset monetisation sectors.
Global dispute settlement, India and appellate review
2-Oct-2023 The Hindu
Since India’s quest has been to establish a rule-based global order, its support for an appellate review will ensure more state and investor confidence in international investment law.
Panthera to step up action against India after local court rejects claim
28-Sep-2023 Proactive
A writ will be pursued by Panthera for alleged breaches by India of the Bilateral Investment Treaty with Australia, the company said in a statement.
India may liberalize foreign investment in non-services sector through ‘pre-establishment’ protection
11-Sep-2023 Zee Business
To boost foreign inflows into India’s manufacturing and industrial sectors, India plans to liberalize foreign investments in the ‘non-services sector’ in the ongoing Free Trade Agreement discussions.