Arbitration & ADR Conference | 11-12 November 2025
Dispute Resolutions: The Economic Perspective
Join us for the ICC United Kingdom Annual Arbitration & ADR Conference: Dispute Resolution – The Economic Perspective on 11–12 November 2025, combining a virtual Day 1 and in-person Day 2 at Hogan Lovells in London.
This flagship event brings together leading legal practitioners, funders, corporates, and government representatives to explore how today’s economic and geopolitical forces are transforming international dispute resolution.
Sessions will delve into the cost and funding of arbitration, navigating sanctions and state risk, evolving standards around fraud and corruption, and the quantification of climate and transition-related damages.
Featuring keynote addresses, expert panels, and a client fireside chat, the conference provides a strategic platform to engage with the most pressing issues impacting arbitration today — alongside unparalleled networking with senior decision-makers and thought leaders from across the field.
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Scrutiny of Draft Awards
One of the hallmarks of ICC dispute resolution services is the scrutiny of draft awards undertaken by the ICC Secretariat and members of the ICC Court. Participants will have the opportunity to understand how an ICC Court Session is conducted under the ICC rules. An interactive and engaging discussion will highlight an array of issues that frequently arise in the scrutiny process.
ICC Rules Revision
Registration
Arrival teas & coffees
Welcome remarks
- Guy Pendell, Chair of the ICC United Kingdom Arbitration & ADR Committee
- Ben Hornan, Hogan Lovells
Keynote address: The UK and the international legal order in a shifting geopolitical landscape
- The Rt Hon Lord Richard Hermer KC (TBC) or
- Attorney General for England and Wales (TBC)
The geopolitical economy of arbitration
This panel will focus on how geopolitics, sanctions and state-based risk are altering dispute resolution strategies and examine their broader economic implications.
Networking break
Cost and funding of arbitration
This panel will explore how funding tools, cost-efficiency strategies, and broad economic analysis shape decisions to arbitrate.
- Moderator: Ned Beale, Co-Head of Commercial Disputes and Partner, Hausfeld
Fireside chat: A client perspective on navigating geopolitical risk and uncertainty
- Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL, Chairman of ICC United Kingdom, in conversation with the General Counsel of Rolls Royce
Lunch break and networking
Quantifying unconventional damages and the economics of transition and climate change
- Moderator: Duncan Bagshaw, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright and Vice Chair of the ICC United Kingdom Arbitration & ADR Committee
Networking break
Corruption, fraud and standards of conduct
Conference close
- Guy Pendell, Chair of the ICC United Kingdom Arbitration & ADR Committee
Networking Drinks Reception