ICC Argentine Arbitration Day 2025

8:00

Registration and Breakfast

8:30

Opening Remarks

9:00

Panel I: Evolving Arbitration with the State and State Entities: Developments and Trends in Argentina and Latin America

1. RIGI Arbitration: Analysis of the Regulation
2. Expectations of Companies and the State Regarding RIGI
3. Interaction and Tensions with Investment Arbitration
4. Comparative Experience: Impact and Outlook for Arbitration Involving State Parties in Argentina and Latin America

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Panel II: Arbitration in Strategic Industries: Trends in Energy, Mining, Infrastructure, and Services Sectors

1. Strategies for Conflict Prevention and Early Detection in Construction Matters
2. When Is Expert Determination Necessary and How Should It Be Managed?
3. Efficient Management of Evidence in Infrastructure Arbitration
4. Argentine and Comparative Experience in the Oil & Gas (Vaca Muerta), Mining, and Renewable Energy Sectors

12:15

Lunch

14:00

Panel III: Lessons from the ICC’s Expedited Arbitration Procedures: The Good, the Bad, and the Middle Ground

1. Experience with Expedited Arbitration: Results from the ICC Rules – The ICC Task Force Report on EPP
2. Expedited Arbitration and Due Process: How to Strike the Right Balance for Each Case – Factors That May Undermine Expedited Proceedings
3. Strategies for Efficient Evidence Handling in Expedited Arbitration
4. Recommendations for the Future

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Panel IV: The Reasoned Content of Arbitral Awards: Is Less More? (Merits and Limitations of the Bare Minimum Standard)

1. The ICC Report “The Bare Minimum: Cost-Efficient Awards for Disputes of Small– and Medium– Sized Enterprises” – The Minimum Level of Reasoning Required to Ensure Validity and Enforceability of Arbitral Awards
2. Role of Arbitrators and Institutions: Scope and Limitations in Implementing Bare Minimum Standards
3. Are the Bare Minimum Recommendations Compatible with Argentine Law?
4. Market Expectations: Demands and Concerns of Arbitration Users Regarding the Content of Awards

17:00

Closing Address

17:45

Event Closing

18:00

Cocktail Reception

20:00

End of Event

08.30-09.00

Registration and welcome coffee

09:00-09:10

Welcoming address, introduction and presentation of the ICC Institute of World Business Law

09:10-10:10

The Tribunal’s discretion to award damages versus the Tribunal’s duty to issue a reasoned decision

• The extent of financial reasoning required in the award
• The right of the Tribunal to reject both experts’ financial models without nominating an independent expert

10:10-10:40

Q&A

10:40-10:55

Coffee break

10:55-11:40

Financial approaches to assessing damages

• The uncertainty of the DCF method
• Other tools outside the DCF/FMV dichotomy
• The need for a more exact science

11:40-12:45

Case scenarios and Q&A

12:45-13:45

Lunch

13:45-14:15

Damnum emergens, lucrum cessans, and moral damages – how to calculate without double-counting

• In a case of unestablished business, where costs of the contract and loss of profit are sought
• In a case of conflicting business plan and real purchase offers
• How to calculate moral damages

14:15-15:10

Case scenarios and Q&A

15:10-15:25

Coffee break

15:25-15:55

Award of interest: considerations for awarding compound post-award interest on costs, material and moral damages

15:55-16:50

Case scenarios and Q&A

16:50-17:00

Concluding remarks