Second Circuit: Petersen Energía Inversora, S.A.U., et al. v. Argentine Republic, et al.

Foreign corporation's bylaws requiring a tender offer for remaining shares after expropriation by the state were an incidental mechanism to the expropriation, and not the mechanism of the statutory expropriation.  Jurisdiction over claim arising from lack of subsequent tender offer is therefore proper under the direct effects exception to FISA.

Continuing government control of the corporation does not divest the court of subject matter jurisdiction, as the question of the enforcement provision of the tender offer requirement is commercial in nature, and has direct effects domestically.

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