Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights, including into foreign investment profile and investment agreement legislation; international legal obligations under investment treaties and relevant conventions; foreign investment promotion, domestic laws, regulatory and disputes agencies; investment treaty practice; investment arbitration history; enforcement of awards against the state; and recent trends.

Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights into sovereign immunity issues, including in each jurisdiction the concept of sovereign immunity, its legal basis and the role of international treaties; jurisdictional immunity and the domestic law governing its scope; exceptions to sovereign immunity; proceedings against state enterprises or similar entities; interim, injunctive and final relief; service of process; judgment in absence of state participation; immunity from enforcement; applicability of debt collection statutes and the enforcement sections of civil procedure codes; property or assets typically subject to enforcement or execution; tests for enforcement; service of arbitration awards or judgments; the history of enforcement proceedings against states; public databases of states’ assets; court competency; treatment of international organisations; and recent trends.