Abstract

An investors eligibility is a prerequisite for International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal to acquire jurisdiction over a case. There is no definite conclusion on whether an entity is an eligible investor, often leading to disagreement. In current international investment practice, arbitration tribunals usually consider the definition of investor in the bilateral investment treaties concluded by the parties to the dispute and use it as one of the bases for determining the investors international status. Since the identification of juridical person investors is a controversial issue in practice, this essay will analyze the criteria for ICSIDs decision in the Tokios Tokels v. Ukraine as an example and examine the issue of pierce the corporate veil to explore the path to resolve related disputes.

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