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Tunisia
New government, same old hardball game in BFT case

Tunisia's position in the saga over BFT (Banque Franco-Tunisienne), whose former owner ABCI Investments is fighting for compensation, has not [...]

Published on 12/03/2020 at 04:30 GMT

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Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel back for final leg in explosive BFT case

Thirty-one years after the expropriation of Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT), the bank's former owner ABCI Investments should soon have closure on its arbitration against the Tunisian government, which is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

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Tunisia
Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel drop Tunis in BFT affair

The law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart [...]

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Tunisia
BFT: Chiheb Ghanmi tasked with reducing ABCI's compensation

Chiheb Ghanmi, a partner in Generale d'Audit et de Conseil (GAC) and vice chairman since May of the Tunisian order [...]

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Korchid tries to find a way out of BFT trap

Prime minister Youssef Chahed and his government are not conceding defeat in the battle over the expropriation of the BFT (Banque Franco-Tunisienne) by the Ben Ali regime in 1989. In July, the ICSID arbitration tribunal has ordered Tunisia to compensate [.

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Washington concerned about risk of banking collapse

Like the IMF and World Bank before it, the Obama administration fears that the Tunisian banking sector could collapse and has put the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT) under surveillance.After a four-year gap, the Treasury Department’s Office of Technical Assistance [.

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Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel back for final leg in explosive BFT case

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Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel drop Tunis in BFT affair

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