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Assessing the relevance of multilateral trade law to sovereign investments: Sovereign Wealth Funds as “investors” under the General Agreement on Trade in Services
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)The variety of investments made by powerful Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) is often directed to the globally booming service sector which is regulated by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This paper ... -
CFIUS post-Ralls: Ramifications for Sovereign Wealth Funds
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Global capital is on the move and sovereign wealth funds, with significant assets, are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the increase in mergers and acquisitions activity, especially in the United States. At the ... -
Incipient activism of Sovereign Wealth Funds and the need to update United States securities laws
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) lie at the cutting edge of a tectonic transformation in global business and international law embodying the sweeping changes in the global order. Illustrating the new financial and legal ... -
International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) as instruments to combat corruption and enhance fiscal discipline in Developing States
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Especially since the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, once more we have seen more focused interest in the use of SWFs by home states—less as a means of projecting sovereign financial power outwards ... -
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors in search of an identity in the twenty-first century
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), as they have come to be known, are a hybrid type of foreign investor. They invest beyond their own borders with an aim to maximize returns as a foreign investor is expected to. At the same ... -
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Problems of international law between possessing and recipient States
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)As the influence of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) is increasing in the world economy, the legal problems between the possessing States and recipient States become very important. The famous Santiago Principles are self-pledges ...
