ISDS | ENERGY & MINING | SOVEREIGN DISPUTES When a government cancels a license, freezes a concession or taxes a transaction retroactively, the foreign investor faces an unusual opponent: a sovereign that writes the laws, staffs the courts and often owns the assets in question. Investment treaties exist to redress that imbalance by letting the
Oil has never been just a commodity. From the moment a barrel crosses a border, it carries the weight of national security strategy, foreign policy, and sovereign ambition alongside its market price. For decades, this triangle of oil, politics, and arbitration has quietly shaped some of the largest disputes in legal history, yet it remains
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A generation ago, an energy arbitrator’s caseload was built almost entirely around upstream oil and gas: joint operating agreements, production sharing contracts, long-term LNG supply disputes. That world still exists. But it now sits alongside an entirely new docket: power purchase agreements, grid connection disputes, offshore wind construction claims, and investment treaty cases over withdrawn
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One of the earliest and most consequential decisions parties face, whether at the contract-drafting stage or once a dispute has already arisen, is whether to proceed before a sole arbitrator or a three-member tribunal. The choice shapes the cost, duration and texture of the entire proceeding, yet it is often relegated to a single boilerplate
