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Full Arbitration Cost Calculators

These arbitration cost calculators estimate the overall cost of resolving a dispute via international arbitration. Cases can require thousands of hours of legal work, and since international arbitrations are private, the fees of the arbitrators and arbitral institutions administrating a dispute must also be paid, rather than being supported by State taxes. Since costs typically follow the event in international arbitration, however, the majority of these costs can potentially be recouped by the winning party.

While many arbitral institutions, such as the ICC, have created online cost calculators of their own, such online cost calculators only estimate the ICC’s own administrative expenses and the fees to be paid to ICC arbitrators. While this is very useful information, and the ICC cost calculator can determine the approximate amount of the advance on costs that a party will be requested to pay the ICC, for instance, the figures it provides do not attempt to encompass the overall costs of a given arbitration.


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The remaining cost of international arbitration, which concerns a party’s costs to present its case, are not accounted for in the ICC cost calculator.

Legal fees are usually by far the largest single expense in any international arbitration, accounting for approximately 2/3 of the costs of resolving a dispute via international arbitration, although the cost of legal experts can also be significant. The ratio between administrative and arbitrator costs versus party costs is similar at other international arbitration institutions, and a good rule-of-thumb is that administrative expenses and arbitral fees will constitute 20% of the costs of an international arbitration that does not settle, and an international arbitration will take 18 months from start to finish whereas an investment arbitration will take twice as long.

To fill the need for estimates of the total cost of resolving a dispute via international arbitration, we have taken the official cost calculators and gone one step further, adding automatic estimates to determine the remaining costs of an average arbitration. We have used models based on the best data available with respect to the time and cost of international arbitrations to do so. These calculators estimate the total cost of resolving a dispute via international arbitration automatically, including administrative costs, arbitrator fees, legal fees, expert costs and witness costs, i.e., what a party should expect to actually pay to resolve an international dispute by arbitration.


ICC Arbitration Cost Calculator

Unlike the official ICC cost calculator, which calculates administrative fees and estimates arbitrator fees, this online tool calculates the full costs of ICC arbitration, including administrative and arbitrator fees, but also legal fees, expert costs, and  witness, management and other expenses.

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LCIA Arbitration Cost Calculator
This online LCIA arbitration cost calculator estimates all expenses for an average LCIA arbitration, including administrative fees, arbitrator fees, legal fees, expert costs, and  witness, management and other expenses.

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ICSID Arbitration Cost Calculator
This online tool estimates ICSID administrative and arbitrator fees while also estimating all other costs to pursue an investment treaty arbitration from registration through a final arbitration award.

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SCC Arbitration Cost Calculator
This online tool estimates SCC administrative and arbitrator fees, and it also estimates all other typical costs to pursue an SCC arbitration through to a final arbitration award.

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SIAC Arbitration Cost Calculator
This online tool estimates SIAC administrative and arbitrator fees, and it also estimates all other typical costs to pursue a SIAC arbitration through to a final arbitration award.

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ICDR Arbitration Cost Calculator
This web-based calculator estimates ICDR administrative and arbitrator fees while also estimating all other typical costs to pursue an international arbitration under the rules of the ICDR, the international branch of the American Arbitration Association.

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Recommended Links

  • Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
  • Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC)
  • International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)
  • International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
  • International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
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