( November 15, 2024, 11:19 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of two International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awards collectively worth more than $319 million, one issued to the Swiss and German owners of Zimbabwean plantations and one to the plantation companies, rejecting the Republic of Zimbabwe’s argument that language in the bilateral investment treaties (BITs) at issue served as a venue provision requiring enforcement actions to be brought in its domestic courts....