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Join us in Houston for 1½-day ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference.
This conference is presented annually in Houston, by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the Institute for Energy Law and the ICC International Court of Arbitration, with the support of other leading regional and global arbitration organizations. The joint conference traditionally includes a year-in-review analysis of key developments in international energy arbitration practice during the preceding year, panels and debates concerning these developments, a Forum for off-the-record discussion of current issues, a young arbitrators Roundtable and a variety of social networking activities.
Conference Co-Chairs
Cecilia Azar, Partner, Galicia Abogados, Mexico City
Teresa Garcia-Reyes, Vice President – Litigation, Baker Hughes, Houston
Liz Snodgrass, Partner, Three Crowns, Washington D.C., USA
Roundtable Co-Chairs
Meredith Craven, Young ITA representative, White & Case LLP, Houston
Christopher Smith, ICC YAAF representative for North America, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta
Amy E. Tomlinson, IEL YEP Representative, Liskow & Lewis, Houston
13:45 |
Registration |
14:30-14:45 |
Welcome remarks
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14:45-14:50 |
Welcome to the Roundtable: Young Lawyers Roundtable Presented by
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14:50 – 15:50 |
Ethics of Arbitrator, Conduct and Challenges: Panelists will consider whether the standards for challenging an arbitrator’s independence and impartiality align with user expectations of arbitrator conduct by examining concrete examples of arbitrator disclosures and conduct, and polling the audience on whether the conduct should reasonably result in the challenge/removal of the arbitrator. Panelists then will discuss whether that conduct intuitively appears ethical from their perspective, and whether the conduct could support a valid challenge. Moderator:
Panelists:
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15:50 – 16:55 |
Evolving Doctrines of Excuse in the Face of Global Disruption: Recent global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, sanctions, supply chain disruptions, and environmental disasters have called into question traditional strict interpretations of force majeure, impossibility, hardship, and other contractual excuse doctrines. Panelists first will discuss the impact of recent developments on the doctrine of excuse, and then will engage in a debate. Debate Resolution: This house maintains that contractual excuse doctrines should be interpreted broadly to excuse contractual non-compliance caused by catastrophic unforeseeable events. Moderator:
Panelists/Debaters:
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16:55 – 17:00 |
Roundtable Closing Remarks
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17:00 – 18:15 |
Welcome Reception |
18:30 – 20:30 |
Joint Conference Dinner (optional) |
08:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
09:00-09:10 |
Welcome address
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09:10-09:40 |
2022 Year in Review: International Arbitration Blockbusters and Flops (With Energy Bonus) This presentation will consider both investor-state and contractual disputes in the energy sector. It will cast an eye over the wide range of matters that have come before arbitral tribunals in 2022 and will attempt to identify the ten (or close to ten) special rulings and industry trends that will have the most significant influence on energy arbitration in 2023 and beyond.
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09:40 – 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10:00 – 10:50 |
Lessons Learned from the Field: Navigating the Challenges of Enforcement Against State-Owned Entities Recent geopolitical issues have highlighted the fact that, when it comes to enforcement risk, the differences between investor-state arbitration and commercial arbitration may not be as vast as we once thought, and there are lessons learned that are equally applicable to both types of arbitration. This panel will focus on the unique challenges posed in enforcement of awards involving state owned entities, particularly in jurisdictions with localization requirements, where issues of veil piercing and the integrity of arbitration clauses are of particular concern. Moderator:
Panelists:
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10:50 – 11:40 |
The Implications of Changing Energy Policy in Energy Disputes Whether as a result of political changes (characteristics and ideology of the public administrations), efforts to address climate change/energy transition or otherwise, we have been witnessing the impact of turnarounds in energy policy in different countries and regions. This panel will analyse this situation, discuss different examples, and evaluate how these issues are likely to arise in energy arbitrations (investment or commercial). Along the way, the panel will discuss the scope of regulatory freedom, strategies for managing political risk, and concepts like force majeure and hardship. Moderator:
Panelists:
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11:40 – 13:30 |
Luncheon This interview conversation is the latest in a series organized by the ITA Academic Council to record the evolution of modern international arbitration in the words of those who have led it.
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13:30 – 14:20 |
Natural Gas: What Next? The natural gas sector has recently seen major disruption resulting from measures taken in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s reaction to those measures, and latterly from physical disruptions to supply caused by acts that may (or may not) be connected to armed conflict. That disruption is layered on top of ongoing evolution in the natural gas market that has led, over the past decades, to successive waves of gas pricing disputes in Europe and Asia. This panel will attempt to forecast where disputes are likely to be coming from in this sector, addressing the impact of supply disruptions, import restrictions and a mooted “price cap” on Russian gas, issues of liability for damage to infrastructure resulting from regular or irregular armed conflict, and how all of this is likely to affect the evolution of gas price review arbitrations. Moderator:
Panelists:
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14:20 – 15:10 |
Back to the Future or the New Normal (No, This is Not a Panel on Virtual Hearings) The past few years have seen many disruptions to the way we typically practice energy arbitration, resulting from restrictions on travel and gathering in person during the height of the pandemic. There were obvious downsides, but necessity was also the mother of innovation when it came to proactive case management. Anecdotally, we saw tribunals demonstrating greater openness to procedural techniques such as bifurcation and early dispositive motions in order to make such progress on cases as was possible even without a full, in-person merits hearing. This panel will evaluate whether we should want to return to pre-pandemic approaches to such techniques, or whether the forced experiment of the past few years has yielded valuable case management insights that we should take forward into the “new normal.” Moderator:
Panelists:
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15:10 – 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30- 16:00 |
Queen Mary University of London/Pinset Masons Survey on the Future of International Energy Arbitration – Final Results This session will be the global launch of the QMUL and Pinsent Masons Survey on the Future of Energy Disputes. It will address the likely causes of future disputes, the impact of climate change and international sanctions on energy disputes and how arbitration is adapting to address such issues. The survey looks forward as well as reports in the energy disputes of recent years.
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16:00- 17:00 |
ITA-IEL-ICC Forum The Forum is an open informal discussion providing the opportunity for arbitrators, arbitration counsel and in-house counsel to share experiences and raise concerns in transnational arbitration in an off -the-record unstructured dialogue format. The agenda for the Forum is determined by the participants, by pre-submitted questions and topics and by spontaneous remarks at the event. Registrants will receive instructions on how to submit questions or topics for discussion at the Forum. Co-Moderators:
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17:00 |
Closing Remarks
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17:10 – 18:15 |
Young Lawyers Networking Reception For members of the Young ITA, the IEL Young Energy Professionals (YEP), the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) and other young lawyers interested in international energy arbitration. |
Cecilia Azar |
Conference Co-Chair; Galicia Abogados, Mexico City |
Kathryn McQueen Barnes |
Senior Counsel, Chevron, San Ramon |
Naomi Briercliffe |
Counsel, Allen & Overy, London |
J. Brian Casey |
Arbitrator, Bay Street Chambers, Toronto |
Alan R. Crain, Jr. |
Independent Arbitrator, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Legal and Governance Counsel, Baker Hughes, Houston |
Meredith Craven |
Roundtable Co-Chair, ITA Rep; International arbitration Associate, White & Case LLP, Houston |
Rahul Donde |
Counsel, Levy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva |
Kabir Duggal |
Attorney, Arnold & Porter, New York |
Carla Gharibian |
Associate, Jones Day, Los Angeles |
Ema Vidak Gojković |
Independent Arbitrator, New York |
Analia Gonzalez |
International Counsel, BakerHostetler, Washington, D.C. |
Elizabeth J. Dye |
Associate, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman, Houston |
Isabel Fernandez de la Cuesta |
Partner, King & Spalding LLP, New York |
Pedro José Izquierdo |
Special Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York |
Alberto Fortún |
Partner, Cuatrecasas, Barcelona |
Jason Hambury |
Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP, London |
Christina G. Hioureas |
Partner, Chair of United Nations Practice Group, Foley Hoag, New York |
M. Imad Khan |
Associate, Winston & Strawn, Houston |
Michael P. Lennon, Jr. |
IEL Chair, Mayer Brown, Houston |
Prof. Loukas Mistelis |
Queen Mary University of London; Partner, Clyde & Co LLP, London |
Joanne Luu |
Partner, BD&P, Calgary |
Christopher P. Moore |
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, London |
Danielle Morris |
Partner, WilmerHale, Washington D.C. |
Denton Nichols |
Partner, Norton Rose, Houston |
Cristian Nitsch |
Assistant General Counsel, Pavilion Energy, Madrid |
Michael Polkinghorne |
Partner, White & Case LLP, Paris |
Teresa Garcia-Reyes |
Conference Co-Chair, VP Litigation, Baker Hughes, Houston |
Caroline Richard |
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Washington, D.C. |
Laura Robertson |
Immediate Past IEL Chair, Deputy General Counsel, Litigation and Arbitration & IP, ConocoPhillips Company, Houston |
Professor Catherine A. Rogers |
Vice Chair, Academic Council. Università Bocconi, Queen Mary University of London, Milan & London |
Claudia Salomon |
President, ICC International Court of Arbitration |
Andrea Orta González Sicilia |
Attorney, Ruiz - Silva Abogados, S.C., Mexico City |
Christoper Smith |
Roundtable Co-Chair, ICC YAAF; King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta |
Antonio Ortiz-Mena |
Senior Vice President, Albright Stonebridge, Washington, DC |
Tom Sikora |
ITA Chair, Senior Counsel - International Disputes Group, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Houston |
Lindsey D. Schmidt |
Partner, Gibson Dunn, New York |
Liz Snodgrass |
Conference Co-Chair, Partner, Three Crowns, Washington, D.C. |
Andrew Stafford KC |
Lawyer, Kobre & Kim, London |
Gisele Stephens-Chu |
Founder, Stephens Chu, Paris |
Amy E. Tomlinson |
Roundtable Co-Chair, IEL Rep; Liskow & Lewis, Houston |
Timothy J. Tyler |
Counsel, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston |
Lucy Winnington-Ingram |
Associate, Reed Smith, London |
Alex Yanos |
Partner, Alston & Bird, New York |
Venue |
Hilton Houston Post Oak 2001 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, TX 77056 Overnight Accommodations Rate $175+/night Standard King https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/iahwshh-cail23-c5f7db4f-38d2-4aa3-ab48-69ac664fe226/ |
For further information, please contact:
Kiara Williams
Promotion Assistant, Arbitration and ADR, North America, ICC Dispute Resolution Services
+1 (646) 699-5702
Kiara.williams@iccwbo.org
Conference Dinner - $15,000 as exclusive sponsor or $4,250 as general sponsor |
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Conference Luncheon - $10,000 as exclusive sponsor or $4,000 as general sponsor
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Canvas Bag - $9,000 as exclusive sponsor or $3,000 as general sponsor - SOLD
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WiFi - $5,000 (exclusive sponsorship) - SOLD
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Lanyard - $5,000 (exclusive sponsorship) - SOLD
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Welcome Reception - $7,000 as exclusive sponsor or $2,500 as general sponsor |
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Conference Coffee Breaks - $6,000 as exclusive sponsor or $2500 as general sponsor |
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Conference Breakfast - $4,000 (exclusive sponsorship) - SOLD |
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Charging Station - $4,000 (exclusive sponsorship) |
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Full Page Conference Materials Binder Advertisement - $4,000 (exclusive sponsorship) |
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Young Lawyers Roundtable - $7,000 Exclusive or $2,500 as General Sponsor |
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Young Lawyers Networking Reception - $5,000 Exclusive or $2,000 as General Sponsor |
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Exhibitor - $2,000 |
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