Abogado, especialista en resolución de disputas y negociaciones complejas. Profesor de Medios Alternativos de Resolución de Conflictos en Pregrado y Postgrado de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2000-2013). Es socio fundador de Mezgravis & Asociados, es autor de más de 25 publicaciones jurídicas. Es miembro de la lista de árbitros de diversos centros de arbitraje en Latinoamérica. Ha participado como “Co-counsel” y “Lead counsel” en diversos arbitrajes internacionales CCI, ICDR, UNCITRAL y de inversión ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (CIADI). Actualmente reside en Nueva York.

Mezgravis & Asociados

aam@mezgravis.com

Isabel is an experienced expert witness on financial, valuation and quantum matters, bilingual in English and Spanish. Over the last 15 years she has assisted clients, regulators and arbitral tribunals in matters related to the valuation of complex financial instruments, concessions and companies in sectors including: construction, banking, infrastructure, transportation, energy, mining, oil and gas. She has been regularly retained as a quantum and valuation expert to provide testimony in both English and Spanish in Bilateral Investment Treaty arbitrations before ICSID and UNCITRAL, international commercial disputes before the ICC, and domestic regulatory proceedings in Latin America.

Isabel holds an MBA degree with honors from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance degree, also from Georgetown University.

AlixPartners

ikunsman@alixpartners.com

Member of the Paris Bar
Member of the Buenos Aires Bar
Special Legal Consultant in Washington DC

Christian has acted as counsel and arbitrator in some of the most complex international arbitrations in Latin America (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, AAA, UNCITRAL, Lima Chamber of Commerce, AMCHAM Peru, Bogota Chamber of Commerce, DAB proceedings). He also advises clients regularly in compliance investigations or other major crisis.
Christian draws on his prior experience at the ICC International Court of Arbitration where, in his position as Managing Counsel, he supervised the nine case management teams of the ICC Secretariat to ensure uniformity of practices and decisions of the Court. He previously held the position of Counsel in charge of the Latin America, Spain and Portugal case management team where he oversaw hundreds of cases pending under the ICC Rules from filing through scrutiny and notification of awards.
Christian is recognised by Chambers & Partners in the category of International Counsel in International Arbitration for Latin America-wide. He is also recognized as a “Recommended Global Leader” by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2022 and has been consistently recognised as one of the “most highly regarded individuals” in international arbitration under 45, in the Who’s Who Legal Arbitration – Future Leaders 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Linklaters

christian.albanesi@linklaters.com

Myriam joined the firm as a partner in 2021 after practising for 14 years in major Canadian business law firms. She specializes in investment treaty arbitration and international commercial arbitration, with a particular focus on disputes arising from the mining, electricity (including renewable energy), oil & gas and transportation sectors. She has experience with disputes involving projects all over the world, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. She also appears before Canadian courts in proceedings to set aside or enforce foreign arbitral awards.

Myriam is based in Toronto, Canada, a global center for the mining industry. Throughout her career, she has worked on cases involving mining projects at all phases of their life cycle, from early-stage exploration to development-stage projects to operating mines, in jurisdictions as varied as Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar and the Kyrgyz Republic. She has extensive experience helping clients navigate the wide variety of roadblocks that can stall or stop a mining project over the course of its life, and in fearlessly advocating on clients’ behalf in an investment treaty arbitration or other dispute resolution forum when those roadblocks cannot be overcome.

Myriam also has substantial experience with disputes involving renewable energy projects, including offshore wind, onshore wind, hydroelectric and solar projects.

Myriam is ranked as a “Future Leader” by the global publication “Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration” (which states that she is “truly excellent” and has “a remarkable reputation for her work on large, complex international arbitration proceedings”) and “Up and Coming” by Chambers Canada: Dispute Resolution (which states that she is “extremely bright and dynamic” and “attracts praise for her ability to understand and manage very complicated situations”). She works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

In addition to her counsel practice, Myriam sits as an arbitrator and is part of Arbitration Place’s NextGen roster of arbitrators. She has been appointed arbitrator by the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC. She is the Vice-Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, Canada’s Representative on the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Americas Initiative, the Regional Editor for common law jurisdictions of the Delos Guide to Arbitration Places and a frequent guest lecturer on investment treaty arbitration at Osgoode Hall Law School and McGill University. She is also coaching Osgoode’s first-ever moot team to compete in a Spanish-language moot competition.

Savoie Laporte

myriam.seers@savoielaporte.com

Jennifer serves as counsel in complex international arbitration cases with a focus on investment treaty arbitration. She has advised and represented private and sovereign clients in proceedings before ICSID and its Additional Facility, the ICC and other arbitral institutions, as well as in adhoc arbitration such as under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. She has also advised and represented private parties and governments in WTO disputes. In addition, she counsels clients on the implications of investment rules for their global operations.

Jennifer is consistently recognized for her arbitration work. She is ranked in the 2021 edition of Chambers Global as well as the 2020 and 2021 editions of Chambers USA in International Arbitration, where clients say she “has a global vision of a case and gets into every detail, leaving no gaps.” Jennifer is listed as a recommended lawyer in International Arbitration by The Legal 500 Latin America 2013–2014 and The Legal 500 2014–2015. In the most recent edition of The Legal 500 Jennifer is praised as “outstanding” and “never tires of responding to questions.” She is also named as one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation by Benchmark. Jennifer was recognized by Latinvex as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers in 2018 and 2019 for her work in international arbitration. In 2019, Jennifer was recognized by Euromoney as one of the Top 30 Commercial Arbitration Experts in the United States and she had received the Best in Commercial Arbitration Award in 2018. In 2022, she was recognized in International Arbitration - Governmental by Best Lawyers.

Sidley Austin LLP

j.haworth.mccandless@sidley.com

Álvaro es presidente de la firma y socio en Consortium Legal – Guatemala. Con 33 años de experiencia en los sectores de servicios financieros y fintech, seguros e insurtech, y aviación; se especializa en banca, arbitraje, inversión extranjera, fusiones y adquisiciones.

Durante su carrera ha servido como presidente y como miembro de varios comités ad hoc  en procedimientos de anulación bajo el Convenio CIADI; presidente de la Junta Directiva de la Comisión de Resolución de Conflictos de la Cámara de Industria de Guatemala; participó como Juez ad hoc caso Tiu Tojín vs. Estado de Guatemala de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, fue Miembro por Guatemala ante la Corte Internacional de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional –ICC- (2006-2018), miembro del Consejo Editorial de IURISTEC (Recopilación de Publicaciones de Sentencias Judiciales comentadas), Catedrático Universitario, Columnista en El Periódico y ex Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la Universidad Rafael Landívar.

Consortium Legal

acastellanos@consortiumlegal.com

Christian is the Head of the Latin America Group, as well as the US Head of International Arbitration. He specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration and dedicates much of his practice to our clients' interests in Latin America. He is based in New York and he works closely with our London, Madrid and Paris offices. He acts for corporations and sovereign states across all major industry sectors, and in particular energy (oil & gas, power), technology, construction, engineering, mining, media and telecommunications. He has over 20 years' experience of working in all countries throughout Central and South America.

Christian regularly appears as an advocate before international arbitral tribunals, such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as well as American Arbitration Association (ICDR) and UNCITRAL. Christian has particular experience in the practice of public international law and has worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Washington, DC. He also sits as arbitrator in English and Spanish language arbitrations. 

Herbert Smith Freehills

Christian.Leathley@hsf.com

Socia y cofundadora de FK Economics su experiencia cubre la realización de análisis económico en organización industrial en particular para libre competencia y estrategia competitiva. Adicionalmente ha trabajado en el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas, así como también realizando evaluaciones económico-financieras de proyectos y valorización de empresas.

Anteriormente, se desempeñó por aproximadamente dos años como asesora de gabinete en el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social. Previo a su trabajo en el gobierno trabajó como analista económico financiero en Econsult.

También ha sido profesora de pregrado en la Escuela de ingeniería de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Es Ingeniero Comercial con doble mención en Administración y Economía de la pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y magister de Macroeconomía en la misma universidad.

FK Economics

mvkonow@fkeconomics.com

María Eugenia Ramírez es una apasionada del derecho internacional. En el 2002, se unió a Hogan Lovells como abogada bilingüe. Enfoca su práctica en el arbitraje internacional, con énfasis en América Latina y el Caribe, y ha representado a clientes en América Latina con respecto a disputas de contratos, construcción y telecomunicaciones, y maneja asuntos de arbitraje internacional en inglés y en español ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (CIADI), la Resolución de Disputas de la Asociación Americana de Arbitraje (CIRD), y la Corte Internacional de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional (CCI).

Ha sido reconocida entre las 100 mujeres más destacadas en América Latina por Latinvex. Ella ha estado en el ranking de Chambers Global, Resolución de Controversias y Litigio. Además, ha recibido el Premio Pro Bono del Daily Business Review por la representación exitosa de un cliente pro bono en un juicio federal ante un jurado relativo a discriminación por incapacidad.

Hogan Lovells

maria.ramirez@hoganlovells.com

Patricio Grané Labat tiene más de 20 años de experiencia en arbitraje internacional inversor-Estado, arbitraje comercial, comercio internacional y derecho internacional público. Ha representado a más de una docena de Estados soberanos, y a muchas corporaciones multinacionales líderes, en disputas complejas y desafiantes en varias zonas geográfícas, sectores y materias. Estos incluyen liderar una serie de casos de tratados de inversión de alto perfil y políticamente sensibles.

Patricio tiene una amplia experiencia representando tanto a demandantes como a demandados en procedimientos arbitrales bajo todas las principales reglas, instituciones y tratados arbitrales, incluyendo el CIADI, CNUDMI, ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, SCC, NAFTA y CAFTA-DR, así como en arbitrajes ad hoc especiales en virtud de tratados bilaterales de inversión. Ha ejercido como abogado en aproximadamente 50 arbitrajes de inversión; y también se desempeña como árbitro, después de haber sido designado por varios estados soberanos para la lista de árbitros y panelistas para la solución de disputas comerciales y comerciales internacionales bajo TBI y tratados multilaterales.

La experiencia y los logros de Patricio han llevado a sus colegas y clientes a reconocerlo como uno de los principales especialistas mundiales en derecho internacional público y arbitraje comercial. Está catalogado "Abogado Líder" en derecho internacional público por Legal 500 UK. Esa categoría incluye un pequeño número de profesionales que se identifican como la élite de la profesión, en base a los elogios de sus clientes por su continua excelencia. Patricio también es reconocido por la Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration de 2019, guía líder del mercado legal internacional de los mejores profesionales en el campo del arbitraje comercial.

Arnold & Porter

patricio.grane@arnoldporter.com

Diego Brian Gosis is a partner at GST LLP based in the firm’s Miami office. For more than 20 years, he has participated as counsel, conciliator, sole arbitrator or chair in more than 100 high value and high stakes disputes, and he has been ranked among the leading practitioners of international arbitration law in Latin America by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who.
Gosis has represented sovereigns and private parties in international arbitration and annulment proceedings in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has extensive transactional experience, including mergers and acquisitions of privately held and publicly listed companies, the development and financing of technology, real estate, hydrocarbon, hotel and casino operations, arranging and counseling participants at public and private tenders, arranging estate and tax planning structures and advising commercial firms, individuals and sovereign instrumentalities on matters of commercial, administrative and international law.

He has acted as counsel in numerous international disputes before the ICC, ICDR, UNCITRAL and ICSID. Most notably, Gosis has represented the prevailing party in leading investment awards on issues of jurisdiction (Daimler v. Argentina, ICS v. Argentina, Blue Bank v. Venezuela, Transban v. Venezuela, Favianca v. Venezuela, Clorox v. Venezuela, Manuel García Armas v Venezuela), merits (Metalpar v. Argentina, Urbaser v. Argentina) and annulment (Sempra v. Argentina, Enron v. Argentina) among many others.

His experience as an arbitrator includes having been appointed by or being listed in the roster of arbitrators of the ICC, Permanent Court of Arbitration, AAA/ICDR, LCIA and numerous local and international arbitration centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Gosis is a frequent speaker at congresses, seminars and academic events on matters of commercial and investment arbitration. He has published widely in the legal press, and he is a regular contributor to Latin Lawyer. He frequently mentors and trains the teams of the University of Buenos Aires in several arbitration competitions, and he currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the FDI Moot on investment arbitration. He is a member of the Board of the Association for International Arbitration.
Additional professional memberships include ICC Latin American Group, ICC Institute of World Business Law, ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Club Español del Arbitraje, ICCA, IBA’s Arbitration Sub-Committee and ALArb.

GST LLP

diego.gosis@gstllp.com

Based in GST LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, Founding Partner Ignacio Torterola has a distinguished career of 25 years as a dispute resolution attorney. He has served as lead counsel, sole arbitrator, chairman and tribunal member in more than 70 high stakes international arbitrations. He has been named a “Leading Arbitration Practitioner” in Latin America and worldwide by Chambers Latin America, Chambers Global and Legal 500 annually since 2015.

Torterola has extensive experience in complex international law matters under the rules of arbitration of the ICC, ICSID, ICSID’s Additional Facility and UNCITRAL. His practice focuses on international litigation and commercial and investment arbitration specializing in water and sanitation, oil and gas, manufacturing, infrastructure, banking and financial services contracts and industry disputes.

Torterola has represented global companies, governments and private client parties in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Currently, he is lead counsel in two ICSID cases: one involving a mining case in Guatemala, the other pertaining to a major construction arbitration case in the Dominican Republic. Acting on behalf of the Government of Pakistan, Torterola handled one of the largest ICSID and ICC cases successfully defending the country in the annulment and revision proceedings leading to the zero settlement of a USD 1.2 billion investment dispute. He represented an oil company in a case involving an off-shore drilling contract, and he successfully defended a state actor in two successive international proceedings, obtaining favorable orders from the tribunal to disclose a funding agreement and secure costs. Torterola also played a pivotal role in a dispute that removed more than 10 billion dollars of fake bonds allegedly issued by a Latin American country from circulation..

He is a member of ICC’s Latin American group, Co-Director of International Arbitration Case Law (IACL), and he appears on UNCTAD’s list of Investment-State Dispute Settlement Specialists.

GST LLP

ignacio.torterola@gstllp.com