The Arbitration Review of the Americas 2021

Across 18 chapters, and spanning 120 pages, this edition provides an invaluable retrospective from 39 leading figures.

Together, our contributors capture and interpret the most substantial recent international arbitration events of the year just gone, supported by footnotes and relevant statistics. Other articles provide valuable background so that you can get up to speed quickly on the essentials of a particular country as a seat.

This edition covers Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and the United States; has overviews on nascent Brazilian jurisprudence on arbitration and corruption (in the wake of Operation Carwash) and on the coronavirus and investment arbitration, among other things; and an update on how Mexico’s federal courts are addressing the problem of personal injunctions against arbitrators that have brought Mexico grinding to a halt as a seat.

Among the other nuggets it contains:

• a discussion of the defences that states may lean on in public law to covid-19 claims. Are we on the verge of a lex pandemiae given the likely recurrence of certain questions?
• numerous real-life examples of coronavirus responses in the region that look ripe to found investment arbitration claims;
• extra questions that valuation experts need to ask when assessing a climate change-related
  loss;
• news that Bolivia may soon return to the investment arbitration fold;
• results of an (informal) survey on attitudes to mediation around Latin America, and whether
  the region ‘needs’ the Singapore Convention on Mediation (spoiler alert: not really); and
• a suggestion that the USMCA may not last much past the next round of North American elections, along with a forensic explanation of the changes it has introduced (and has not – for certain industries).

Chapters: 

Overviews:

• Concession Contracts in Times of Crisis
  Diego Brian Gosis, Quinn Smith and Ignacio L Torterola
  GST LLP
• Energy Arbitration in Latin America: Potential State Defences in Future Covid-19-Related Cases
  Claudio Salas and Manuel Valderrama
  WilmerHale
• Enforcement in the United States
  Jef Klazen, Marcus J Green and Chris Cogburn
  Kobre & Kim
• Initial Views on Approaches to Quantum in Climate Change-Related Arbitrations
  Alain de Bossart
  FTI Consulting
• International Arbitration in the Caribbean
  Francois Lassalle
  BVI International Arbitration Centre
• Intra-EU Investment Treaty Disputes in US Courts: Achmea, Micula and Beyond
  Alexander A Yanos and Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky
  Alston & Bird LLP
• Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Americas
  David M Orta, Dawn Yamane Hewett, Lucas Loviscek, Julianne Jaquith and Woo Yong Chung
  Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
• Issues of Corruption and Arbitration in Brazil
  André de Luizi Correia
  CFGS – Correia, Fleury, Gama e Silva Advogados
• Overview: CAM-CCBC
  Eleonora Coelho and Clara Kneese de Moraes Bastos
  Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC)
• Overview: JAMS
  Robert B Davidson and Matthew Rushton
  JAMS
• Public Contracting, Foreign Investment and Arbitration
  Andrés Moreno Gutierrez and Daniel Arredondo Zelada
  Moreno Baldivieso
• The Singapore Mediation Convention and its Potential Impact on Mediation in the Americas
  Anthony B Ullman and Diora M Ziyaeva
  Dentons

Country Chapters:

• Argentina
  José A Martínez de Hoz and Francisco A Amallo
  MHR | Martínez de Hoz & Rueda
• Canada
  Robert J C Deane, Craig R Chiasson and Paige Burnham
  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Ecuador
  Rodrigo Jijón-Letort, Juan Manuel Marchán and Javier Jaramillo-Troya
  Pérez Bustamante & Ponce
• Mexico
  Victor M Ruiz Barboza and Andrea Orta González Sicilia
  Ruiz-Silva Abogados, SC
• Panama
  José Carrizo
  Morgan & Morgan
• Peruvian Arbitration System Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
  Diego Martínez Villacorta and Emily Horna Rodríguez
  Benites, Vargas & Ugaz Abogados