At the Singapore Convention Week 2025 held from 25 to 29 August 2025, Rajah & Tann Singapore supported several thought leadership events.
On 28 March 2025, the Malaysian Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the decision of the Kuala Lumpur High Court to recognise and enforce a foreign arbitral award under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID).
Over the past decades, India has seen arbitration grow in prominence as a preferred dispute resolution mechanism. Where the Government of India is party to a dispute, however, the advantages of arbitration have not always materialised.
Authored Publication: The fair and equitable treatment (FET) standard remains one of the key protections relied on by investors in investment disputes, but is often left undefined.
The High Court at Kuala Lumpur, in the first-ever decision of its kind, recognised a foreign award made by an arbitral tribunal under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention).
Authored Publication – Our firm has contributed the “Fair and Equitable Treatment” chapter to the eight edition of The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review.
Authored Publication – Our firm has contributed a chapter titled “Fair and Equitable Treatment” to the seventh edition of The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review, published as part of The Law Reviews series.
Authored Publication – Our firm contributes a chapter on fair and equitable treatment (“FET”) in the Sixth Edition of the Investment Treaty Arbitration Review. It discusses the FET standard in investment protection treaties, which remains at the core of states’ obligations…
In Republic of India v Vedanta Resources plc [2021] SGCA 50, the Court of Appeal considered whether a party in an arbitration, who puts a question of law to a tribunal, can put the same question before a Singapore court (as the seat court) by way of an application for declaratory relief?