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CLPSCEDI: A CLPS Institute
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CEDI

Focus Areas

Three Stages Of One Lifecycle: Investment, Screening, Dispute. Not Three Unrelated Subjects.

CEDI's focus areas

Investor-State dispute settlement, treaty arbitration, and enforcement, where investment meets state power.

Investment Disputes & Arbitration

CEDI's central practice area: how a regulatory act, a screening decision, a sanction, becomes a dispute, and how that dispute is resolved.

ISDS
ICSID
UNCITRAL
Treaty Arbitration
Expropriation
Fair & Equitable Treatment
Enforcement
New York Convention
Reko Diq
Karkey

Year 1 Activity

Two CEDI Arbitration Roundtables (20–25 persons, Chatham House, Karachi and Lahore); the annual Pakistan Arbitration & Investment Day co-located with PFIG 27; the first Pakistan Arbitration Note (an annual enforcement tracker).

A witness giving testimony before a panel in a hearing room

Sanctions, screening, and statecraft: how global rules reach Pakistani deals, and where that intervention turns into a dispute.

Economic & National Security

How the EU, US, UK, and Gulf regimes screen Pakistani-connected capital before the term sheet is signed, and what happens legally after.

Investment Screening
Sanctions
Export Controls
CFIUS
EU FDI Screening
UK NSI Act
Critical Minerals
Defence & Dual-Use
Data & AI
Energy Security

Year 1 Activity

The signature panel of PFIG 27 ('Pakistani Deals Under Foreign Screening'); the Q4 2026 proof-of-concept roundtable; the annual market note.

Networking cables in a data centre, the digital infrastructure economic-security regimes increasingly reach

Structuring capital into sensitive sectors, and managing the regulatory, screening, and dispute risk that follows it in.

Strategic Investment & Investment Risk

The connecting discipline: structuring a deal to manage national-security exposure, and preparing for the dispute before it happens.

SIFC
Board of Investment
Deal Structuring
Concessions & Privatisation
Gulf Co-Investment
Regulatory Risk
Geopolitical Risk
Dispute Prevention

Year 1 Activity

The flagship PFIG 27 forum (April 2027, Islamabad), the platform's anchor event; the opening keynote and Promote & Protect panel.

An aerial view of a financial district skyline at dusk

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