Overview

The global energy and mining sector continues to face increasing regulatory, geopolitical, and commercial complexity. Disputes arising from resource projects today frequently involve overlapping issues of state intervention, investment protection, environmental obligations, licensing regimes, contractual risk allocation, and sustainability considerations.

Against this evolving landscape, arbitration has become one of the most significant mechanisms for resolving high-value disputes within the resource sector.

Major energy and mining disputes are rarely determined solely at the arbitration hearing. They are often shaped much earlier — through project structuring decisions, concession frameworks, government measures, investment protections, contractual drafting, and operational risk management.

This one-day executive workshop is designed to provide legal, commercial, and industry professionals with a sophisticated and practical understanding of how disputes within the energy and mining sector are approached, argued, and resolved in modern arbitration.

An executive-level programme examining arbitration challenges at the intersection of energy, investment, and regulatory risk.

The programme will examine both investor-state and commercial arbitration dynamics, with particular focus on the strategic interaction between investment treaty protection, sovereign measures, ESG obligations, and contractual dispute exposure across cross-border resource projects.

Through comparative analysis, tribunal perspectives, and practical case studies, participants will gain deeper insight into how arbitration frameworks operate within the evolving global resource economy.

Participants Will Gain Insight Into

• The interaction between investment treaty arbitration and commercial arbitration
• State intervention, licensing instability, and regulatory measures affecting long-term resource investments
• ESG obligations, environmental liabilities, and sustainability-driven dispute exposure
• Case studies involving coal mining operations and power plant arbitration disputes
• Comparative analysis of ICSID proceedings and commercial arbitral mechanisms
• Risk allocation, stabilisation clauses, and dispute management in energy and mining contracts
• Cross-border investment protection and sovereign risk considerations
• Tribunal approaches in complex disputes involving governments, investors, and multinational corporations

Who Should Attend

This workshop is structured for senior-level decision-makers and professionals, including:

• Law Firm Partners
• Arbitration Counsel
• Heads of Legal / Legal Directors
• Mining Companies
• Energy Corporations
• Investors in the Resource Sector
• Government Regulators involved in resource-sector contracts and disputes
• Contract & Claims Managers
• Project Directors
• In-House Counsel
• Energy & Mining Consultants
• CEOs and Senior Executives in the Energy and Infrastructure Sector
• Academics and Arbitration Practitioners

Participants will receive a BIAMC Certificate of Completion recognising their participation and professional exposure to arbitration practice within the energy and mining sector.