EMTA Webinar: Arbitration Awards and Their Effects on EM Creditworthiness - May 26, 2022

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10:00 - 11:30 am New York  / 3:00 - 4:30 pm London 

Panel Discussion
Rahim Moloo (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) - Moderator
Robert Whitener (Greenberg Traurig)
Ashley Messick (GPW + Co Ltd)
Jay Newman
David Orta (Quinn, Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan)
Henry Weisburg (Shearman & Sterling)

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This EMTA Webinar is aimed at both EM investors and legal advisors, and will provide analysis and commentary on how arbitration affects investments in the Emerging Markets.

Topics Include:

• What are the recent developments in arbitrations and enforcements relating to sovereign debt (including Argentina, India (the Devas case), Russia, Turkey and Venezuela)?
• The risks of seating arbitrations in a country where sovereigns evade judgments.
• Absence of recourse for private sector investors when countries breach treaties over honoring arbitration awards.
• Challenges of enforcement against countries with mixed public/private enterprises.
• Sovereigns' misuse of regulatory and investigative agencies to evade payment to arbitration award holders.
• Sovereigns’ misuse of domestic courts to evade international arbitrations.
• The growing role of corporate intelligence in international arbitrations.

Additional Support Provided by Greenberg Traurig, GPW + Co Ltd, Quinn, Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Shearman & Sterling.

Registration fee for EMTA Members: US$50 / US$495 for Non-members.  

A summary of this event is available to EMTA Members in our 22Q2 Quarterly Bulletin.

This Webinar is part of a continuing series of panels and presentations that EMTA is pleased to sponsor on various topics of interest to Emerging Markets investors and other market participants and is part of EMTA’s Legal & Compliance Webinars*.

 *CLE credit will be available for NY attorneys.  This Webinar is non-transitional and appropriate for experienced attorneys only.  Please click here for details on EMTA’s Financial Hardship Policy.