The first edition of the ICC Argentine Arbitration Day was held on March 13, 2023, and featured a series of side events during March 12 and March 14. This long-awaited edition, hosted during the Centenary of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, proposed an ambitious schedule both in terms of content and speakers. The aim…
This post continues the coverage of the 1st ICC Argentine Arbitration Day 2023 that is available in Part 1. Panel III – Debate on Economic Sanctions: A High Impact Phenomenon The third panel involved an absorbing discussion with respect to economic sanctions and its impact on arbitrators and arbitral institutions. This panel was moderated by…
The Commercial Court of Appeals in the City of Buenos Aires recently granted a request for preliminary measures. These measures aimed to obtain the necessary elements to analyze and determine whether the counterparty had breached a stock purchase agreement that included an arbitration clause as the dispute-settlement mechanism. In this post, we discuss whether courts…
Introduction Since the enactment of the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code (the “CCCN”),1)The CCCN, Law No. 26.994, is in force since August 1, 2015. Argentina counts on a national statute to regulate the “arbitration agreement”. This legislative milestone has been mostly welcomed by the arbitral community, although some of its provisions have been subject to…
