YPF Investors Say They’ll Arbitrate $16 Billion Argentina Case

Former YPF SA investors who saw their $16.1 billion US judgment against Argentina thrown out on appeal last month have told the trial judge that they intend to pursue international treaty arbitration along with further appeals.

A lawyer for the investors on Tuesday asked US District Judge Loretta Preska in New York to let them use evidence from the court case in a planned arbitration. But he said they also planned to continue contesting the appeals court ruling for Argentina.

Preska awarded the plaintiffs the massive judgment in 2023, finding that the Argentine government violated their rights in its 2012 ...