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		<title>Legal Stability Contract &#8211; Translated For the First Time</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/10/12/legal-stability-contract-translated-for-the-first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a &#8220;legal stability contract&#8221;?  As I have discussed in other articles here (click on the &#8220;Legal Stability Contracts&#8221; category, to the right), the concept is borrowed from government concession contracts that protect the concessionaire from adverse regulatory action that undermines the concession.  In a fairly novel application of this concept, to promote investment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=976&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Investors Have Signed 16 of 46 Legal Stability Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal Stability Contracts provide investors a way to contract with the government to prevent adverse legal and regulatory developments that hurt an investment. They have been touted as a way of attracting foreign investment on the ProExport site.  In fact, ProExport&#8217;s website lists the legal stability contracts that have been signed and with which companies. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=956&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contracts III: Why Do IFC-Backed Projects and Firms Not Use Legal Stability Contracts?</title>
		<link>http://colombialawbiz.com/2009/08/05/legal-stability-contracts-iii-why-do-ifc-backed-projects-and-firms-not-use-legal-stability-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of companies that the IFC has backed resembles a &#8220;who’s who” list of leading Colombian businesses.  Do firms of this caliber show interest in legal stability contracts?  In other words, what does the list of IFC-backed Colombian firms tell us about legal stability contracts? What do they have in common?  Almost nothing, as it turns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=762&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contracts Part II: Evaluating The Stability Contract Regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem is clear enough: attracting foreign direct investment, particularly medium and long term capital and infrastructure investment, is more difficult in environments that do not have a long-term history of stability that diminishes real and perceived national risk, political risk, and regulatory risk, among others. Firms are justifiably concerned about sinking substantial capital into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=742&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Stability Contracts &#8212; Contracting With The Government Against Changes In Specified Laws and Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To minimize risk from adverse legal and regulatory changes during the life of an investment, Colombia has a law allowing for contracts with the government that provide stability of specific legal regimes (&#8220;contrato de estabilidad jurídica&#8220;). The law was adopted in July 8, 2005 (Law 963) and implemented by Decree 2950 of (August 29) 2005 and Decree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colombialawbiz.com&amp;blog=7145362&amp;post=206&amp;subd=colombialawbiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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