WHAT TO DO WHEN FORIEGN ASSETS ARE EXPROPRIATED OR IMPAIRED BY ARBITRARY OR DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES
Breakfast Presentation
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
8:00 am - 10:00 am
(on-site check-in begins at 7:30 am)
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce
*Please note room change* Moved to the Samuel Southern Room #203
2nd Floor, 100 - 6th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
Cost: $65.00 (plus 5% GST)
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About this presentation: Canadian businesses are engaging in cross-border transactions and making substantial foreign investments at an unprecedented rate. Often the greatest opportunities present themselves in unfamiliar, unpredictable and potentially unstable political, legal and economic environments. The global economic crisis is expected to increase the policital risk associated with investing in developing economies.
New regulatory regimes by populist governments in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have caused problems for foreign investors in engaged in the exploitation of natural resources, financial services, telecommunications and major infrastructure projects. Investment treaty claims have been made against these countries and many others in the region, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile.
What are your alternatives when a foreign state interferes with business operations or assets are expropriated? When should an investment treaty claim be pursued instead of local remedies? What does an investor-state claim look like? What does it cost, how long does it take, and what are the chances for recovery? What are the risks?
This breakfast session will be of interest to all CCA members who have assets in the Americas region, or which are planning a significant investment in the region, given recent aggressive state intervention by a number of countries in the region.
About the Speaker: Cameron Mowatt is a partner at the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), practicing international trade and investment law. He is one of North America's most experienced counsel in the conduct of Investor-State arbitrations, having acted for the Government of Mexico in 14 such cases. He was called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1981 and was later admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong where he practiced from 1992 to 1995.
This is a high level presentation that you will not want to miss! |
