Save the Date: 8th ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration

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Save the Date – The ITA, IEL and ICC combine again to present their 8th annual review of the year past and the year ahead in the arbitration of international disputes in the energy industry.

  • Date: January 23-24, 2020
  • Location: Hilton Houston Post Oak – 2001 Post Oak Blvd., Houston, TX 77056
    • A limited number of rooms are reserved at the special rate of $169/night plus taxes and fees for a Standard King room. The last day for this group discount is Jan 1, 2020 but the hotel is likely to fill up before then so you should make your hotel reservations now. You may make your reservations by calling 1-800-445-8667 or online using the following link.
  • Register Here

Program Details

  • A world in transition: this year’s conference reflects on the many externalities influencing the industry, the drivers of change in recent years, including in the decade that has passed since Macondo, and explores what role commercial and investment treaty arbitration will play in the years to come. With the insights of in-house counsel, market analysts, experts and private practice lawyers across a wide range of disciplines, the program will address the geopolitical landscape, sanctions, the environment and the management of climate risk, the interplay between long term contracts and an evolving regulatory landscape, amendments to investment treaties and shifts towards a permanent court for investment treaty disputes, and, more generally, the key trends impacting on energy disputes in this important era.

Workshop Highlights

  • Keynote: Francisco J. Monaldi, Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston
  • Energy Arbitration Year in Review presented by Larry Shore (BonelliErede, Milan) back by popular demand
  • Effects of the Energy Transition on Arbitration Practice
  • International Trade and Sanctions Update
  • Oral History Interview of Arthur W. Rovine (Fordham Law School, New York) by the Hon. Charles N. Brower
  • An exceptional faculty of leading international arbitration experts including Conference Co-Chairs Sophie Lamb, QC (Latham & Watkins, London), Alberto Ravell (Lead Counsel – Arbitrations, ConocoPhillips, Houston) and Luke Sobota (Three Crowns, Washington, D.C.)