On Thursday 2 February at 3pm ET (until 3.30pm ET) took place an interactive discussion of the Argentine National Chamber of Commercial Appeals decision in Fiambala v. Cammesa in our ‘A Case in Time’ headnote series.

Federico Campolieti and Santiago Lucas Peña of Bomchil,  the authors of the GAP chapter on Argentina, considered the first time that an Argentine court decided that an award issued under the 2010 UNCITRAL Rules in not subject to appeal, followed by comments from Ophélie Divoy of DLA Piper and a Q&A with the participants. Chatham House rules applied. The event chat was open to facilitate networking and interaction.

The recording is available here.

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Federico Campolieti is partner in the Arbitration and Economic Regulation and Administrative Law departments. His practice focuses on providing advice to clients on regulatory issues and public law. He has represented companies mainly rendering public services or intervening in highly regulated industries, in administrative proceedings, in public tenders and licensing and in contentious-administrative litigation. He has also advised and represented private companies and States in different international arbitrations before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as various international commercial arbitrations under different rules (ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL, etc.). He has also intervened as arbitrator and secretary of arbitral tribunals. He has worked as a foreign associate at Dechert LLP (Paris), participating in various investment arbitrations during 2013 and 2014

Santiago Peña is a senior associate of Bomchil and is part of the International Arbitration department.  His practice focuses on advising corporate clients in international litigation and arbitration. Santiago graduated with honours as a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2011 and has completed a Master’s Degree in Business Law at the Austral University.  He is a regular professor of civil and commercial contracts at UBA and has published several works on topics of his specialty.

Ophélie Divoy is counsel at DLA Piper in Paris and her practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, as well as domestic proceedings in connection with arbitration or involving international private law issues. Ophélie Divoy is a French avocat registered with the Paris Bar, graduate of ESSEC Business School (Programme Grande Ecole, 2012), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master Droit des Affaires, 2011) and Oxford University (LLM, 2013). She joined DLA Piper’s international arbitration team in 2014. She has a vast experience of international commercial arbitration as well as investment arbitration, in particular of arbitration proceedings under the rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, but also CCJA or AFSA. She represents clients in disputes related to a variety of business sectors, notably energy, telecommunications, defense or life sciences. She has notably built a specific expertise in complex pharmaceutical and industrial disputes, and in business law litigation (post-acquisition and shareholders disputes), as well as in disputes involving OHADA law issues. Ophélie also has a significant experience of arbitration-related litigation, and is frequently involved in domestic proceedings before the French courts in relation to petitions to set aside arbitral awards, as well as domestic proceedings before the French and foreign domestic courts (notably in the OHADA geographic area) in relation to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. Ophélie is fluent in French, English and Spanish and works in these three languages. She was notably seconded to the office of Lima (Peru) of DLA Piper during several months in 2019. Ophélie also teaches, speaks and publishes regularly on arbitration-related topics, in France and abroad. Finally, Ophélie actively contributes to the firm’s pro bono activities. She regularly advises the United Nations High Committee for Refugees to facilitate settlement of disputes, in particular on the African continent. Ophélie was recently distinguished by the Best Lawyers 2022 ranking in the “Ones to Watch” category in Arbitration and Mediation.