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Tunisia
Farhat Horchani returns to the BFT affair… in a lawyer's gown

The BFT (Banque Franco-Tunisienne) affair, which has been playing itself out before international arbitration body ICSID since 2004 (MC 1294), [...]

Published on 21/06/2018 at 04:30 GMT

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ABCI
Ahmed Ouerfelli
BFT
CAG Law Firm
Chihab Ghazouani
Farhat Horchani
Foued Mebazaa
Herbert Smith Freehills
ICSID
Isabelle Michou
Lundin
Majid Bouden
Moncef Marzouki
Noureddine Ghazouani
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Youssef Chahed

Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel back for final leg in explosive BFT case

Thirty-one years after the expropriation of Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT), the bank's former owner ABCI Investments should soon have closure on its arbitration against the Tunisian government, which is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

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Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel drop Tunis in BFT affair

The law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart [...]

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Tunisia
Ahmed Ouerfelli joins Cairo regional arbitration centre

Ahmed Ouerfelli, who was legal adviser to presidents Fouad Mebaza, [...]

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Ghana
The local legal teams behind the end to AngloGold-Accra ICSID conflict

The June amicable settlement to the dispute between South African [...]

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Tunisia
BFT: Chiheb Ghanmi tasked with reducing ABCI's compensation

Chiheb Ghanmi, a partner in Generale d'Audit et de Conseil (GAC) and vice chairman since May of the Tunisian order [...]

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Tunisia
BFT affair: Mabrouk Korchid tries fresh talks with ABCI

State property minister Mabrouk Korchid is taking a new line [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Shell threatens to go to ICSID arbitration court

Tunisia, which is already battling with ABCI before the ICSID arbitration tribunal, could soon find itself in dispute with an even more redoubtable adversary in the form of the Shell oil group! According to our exclusive information, the Anglo-Dutch giant [.

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Tunisia
The Lundin case back before ICSID’s arbitrators

After falling temporarily off the radar screen, an international arbitration case pitting the Swedish oil group Lundin against the Tunisian [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
A busy autumn in store for ICSID

Tunis has slammed the door on any out-of-court settlement in two arbitration proceedings before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). That strategy is not without risk.On July 18, the Swedish firm Lundin re-activated a procedure which [.

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Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Tunisia
Farhat Horchani returns to the BFT affair… in a lawyer's gown

Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel back for final leg in explosive BFT case

Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel drop Tunis in BFT affair

Tunisia
Ahmed Ouerfelli joins Cairo regional arbitration centre

Ghana
The local legal teams behind the end to AngloGold-Accra ICSID conflict

Tunisia
BFT: Chiheb Ghanmi tasked with reducing ABCI's compensation

Tunisia
BFT affair: Mabrouk Korchid tries fresh talks with ABCI

Spotlight | Tunisia
Shell threatens to go to ICSID arbitration court

Tunisia
The Lundin case back before ICSID’s arbitrators

Spotlight | Tunisia
A busy autumn in store for ICSID