Region: Argentina

04 January 2019

Argentina’s national oil and gas operator YPF has paid US$114 million to a local gas pipeline company to satisfy an ICC award, ending a dispute that had its roots in the country’s energy crisis of more than a decade ago.

02 January 2018

Argentina has applied to annul a US$320 million ICSID award in favour of insolvent member companies of Spanish travel group Marsans over the nationalisation of two airlines – citing the role of the claimants' third-party funder Burford Capital.

24 November 2017

An ICSID tribunal has ordered Argentina to pay more than US$320 million plus interest for nationalising two airlines more than a decade ago - with the claimants' third-party funder Burford Capital set to receive around US$140 million from the award.

24 July 2017

Argentina has issued bonds to satisfy another ICSID award arising from its early 2000s currency crisis, wrapping up a 13-year-long battle with French oil company Total.

19 July 2017

Spanish infrastructure group Abertis has agreed the preliminaries of a deal with Argentina over a toll-road concession that could lead to the settlement of claims pending before an ICSID tribunal.

19 June 2017

A 14-year-long ICSID claim against Argentina over an electricity concession in Buenos Aires is over after claimant EDF apparently lost an ICC arbitration over the right to keep its claim going.

03 April 2017

Argentina’s arbitrator in a high-profile sovereign debt dispute at ICSID has criticised his co-panellists for failing to produce a final award before the case settled last year – and they in turn have accused him of breaching the secrecy of their deliberations.

09 January 2017

An ICSID annulment committee has rejected Argentina’s request to annul a US$59 million award in favour of French water management company Saur International.

20 December 2016

Featured in Guide to Regional Arbitration (volume 6 - 2018)

02 November 2016