ICSID tribunal enforces MFN clause to allow reliance on umbrella clauses in other BITs | Practical Law
In EDF International SA and others v Argentine Republic (ICSID Case No ARB/03/23), an ICSID tribunal considered whether the claimants could rely on a Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause in the bilateral investment treaty between France and Argentina to incorporate an umbrella clause from another treaty entered into by Argentina.