Baker McKenzie’s Arbitration Yearbook 2018-2019 Edition
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Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2020-2021 – Argentina
ARGENTINA
Luis E. Dates and Santiago Maqueda
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES
A.1 Legislation
International arbitration in Argentina continues to be governed by (i) the National Civil and Commercial...
Protection of foreign investments in Argentina
Overview
Should a foreign investor have its assets expropriated (whether directly, or through creeping expropriation or regulatory encroachment), a qualifying investor would have claims...
Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2019-2020 – Argentina
ARGENTINA
Luis E. Dates, Santiago Maqueda and Eugenia Pluchino
A. LEGISLATION AND RULES
A. 1 Legislation
International arbitration in Argentina continues to be governed by (i) the National...
Argentine Supreme Court supports restricted review of arbitral awards
On November 6, 2018, the Argentine National Supreme Court ("Supreme Court") ruled on a case regarding the annulment of a domestic arbitration award. The...
Argentina: New Law on International Commercial Arbitration
On July 26, 2018 Law No. 27,449 on International Commercial Arbitration (“LACI” for its Spanish acronym), was published in the Official Gazette. Said law...
Argentina: New Legal Framework Allows for International Arbitration and Dispute Boards in Public-Private Partnership...
A recent legal framework in the Argentine Republic allows for domestic or international arbitration and dispute boards for public-private partnerships, and is expected to...
U.S. court denies request to vacate award based on alleged partiality of arbitrator and...
A U.S. District Court rejected Argentina’s attempt to vacate a USD 21 million international arbitration award in a proceeding administered by ICSID under the...
Argentina: First Court Ruling Regarding the Enforcement of ICSID Awards
A PDF version of this article is availabe here.
A. Introduction
1. On August 18, 2015, the chamber A of the Buenos Aires Commercial Court of...
The double requirement that the arbitrator be independent and impartial
INTRODUCTION
1. Several International Tribunals have come to the conclusion that “he requirements of independence and impartiality serve the purpose of protecting the parties against...
Argentina: arbitration legislation, trends and tendencies
Current Legislation
Despite repeated attempts to obtain congressional approval to adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law as the Argentine federal arbitration act, Argentina still...
Arbitration News from Latin America
Arbitration Statistics 2020 – In Full Sail Through the COVID Storm
Introduction
It is this time of the year again: most major arbitration institutions have published their statistical reports, giving us the opportunity to take a...
Brazil Judiciary regulates arbitral letters for communications between arbitrators and judicial courts
The Brazilian Justice Counsel published on September 29, 2021 a decision regulating arbitral letters, which are the instruments foreseen in Brazilian Arbitration Act and...
District court refuses to vacate award annulled at the seat of arbitration because it...
Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, S.A.B. de C.V., No. 1:15-cv-02120-JLK (D. Colo. Apr. 30, 2021)
In 2005, Compañía de...
Brazilian Superior Court Confirms 90-Day Limitation Period to Request Annulment of an Arbitral Award
On August 9, 2021, the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ) published an interesting decision on the time limit to request the annulment of...