AD Trade Belgium SPRL v Guinea
Investment treaty tribunal · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · Guinea · 3 Feb 2020
Why it matters
AD Trade Belgium SPRL v Guinea, an investment-treaty arbitration in which a foreign investor brought claims against a state. For a student, it is a worked example of investor-state dispute settlement: how a tribunal weighs a state's right to regulate against the treaty protections owed to foreign investors. The tribunal's reasoning is set out in the linked final award.
Summary
AD Trade Belgium SPRL v Guinea: an investor-state final award in ICC Case No. 22374/DDA, with Guinea as the respondent state. The document is published by italaw, the open database for investment-treaty arbitration. The full reasoning, the treaty relied on and the operative decision are set out in the linked original.
The detail
Parties: AD Trade Belgium SPRL v Guinea
Case number: ICC Case No. 22374/DDA
Outcome: italaw publishes the final award in ICC Case No. 22374/DDA. See the original for the operative decision.
Applicable law: The investment treaty invoked and the applicable arbitration rules (ICSID Convention or UNCITRAL Rules); see the linked award.
Issues in play: A foreign investor's treaty protections against a state's sovereign right to regulate, decided by an investor-state tribunal.
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Locus Standi links to the source decision and publishes its own plain-language summary. It does not reproduce the text of the award.