CIAO DATE: 11/2012
October 2012
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
A review of the definition of “investor” and investor-state dispute resolution clauses in 851 international investment agreements (IIAs)[1] reveals that, except in two, state-controlled entities (SCEs) (sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises (SOEs)) have equivalent standing to their purely private counterparts as investors under such IIAs.
Resource link: State-controlled entities as "investors" under international investment agreements [PDF] - 85K