Janek Bednarz

Senior Associate, Baker McKenzie

Janek Bednarz is a senior associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team, based in London. Janek has experience acting for corporations and States in a broad range of commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Janek has specialist expertise in investor-state disputes under the ICSID rules and has also worked on a variety of commercial arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, HKIAC and DIAC rules. His practice investor-state practice centres on projects in energy ad infrastructure sectors. In addition, Janek’s commercial arbitration experience spans a variety of additional sectors and specialisms, including post M&A disputes, commodities, construction and the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Janek was a trainee case manager at the ICC Court of Arbitration. Janek is a co-author of Legal 500’s Investment Treaty Arbitration Guide and the BIICL Empirical Study on Corporate Restructuring and Investment Treaty Protections.

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Investment treaty arbitration—an introduction

Practice Notes

This Practice Note provides an introductory overview of investor-state arbitration and the key protections offered by bilateral and multilateral investment treaties (BITs and MITs) in respect of investments in foreign states. It sets out an explanation of the kinds of protections afforded to investors under those treaties and how investment disputes are resolved. It gives an outline of common issues in investment treaty arbitration, including who is an investor, what is an investment, jurisdiction, negotiations, interim measures, enforcement and state immunity. It provides an introduction to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and to other arbitral bodies which administer proceedings in investment treaty arbitrations.

Arbitration