U.S. Arbitrator Can Hear U.S. Companies’ Arbitration Against Honduras

( November 27, 2024, 9:32 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a decision by the ICSID administrative chair denying the Republic of Honduras’ proposal for disqualification of a U.S. national from sitting as arbitrator in a dispute brought against it by several U.S. companies that invested in a chartered island city in a Honduran special economic zone, writing that Honduras consented to such an appointment under the relevant treaty....