Background

Firm or chambers

Dechert LLP

Academic position

Director and Professor of Law (International Law) - University of Rosario, Bogotá
Honorary Professor (International Law) - University of Dundee, Scotland
Lecturer (Arbitration) - University of Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
Lecturer (International Contracts) - Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris

Bar admission

Colombia - 1994
Paris - 2006

Education

University of Paris II-Assas (Doctorat en droit - 2000)
DEA philosophie du droit - 1996
DSU droit international privé - 1995)
University of Rosario, Bogotá (Law Degree - 1994)

Credentials

Former Counsel and Deputy Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration (1998-2005)
Member (Colombia), ICC Commission on International Arbitration
Vice Chairman, ICC Commission on International Arbitration
Associate Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law
Member, former Secretary, ICC Latin American Arbitration Group
Chairman of the ICC Task Force on Arbitration involving states or state entities

Experience as counsel

International arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, AAA and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)(construction, oil & gas, joint venture, power matters, and international sales and distribution contracts)

Publications

Editor, El contrato de arbitraje (2005)
"Observations sur la notion d’investissement après la sentence Phoenix," 2010(4) Paris J. Int’l Arb. 987
"Por un regreso al sentido ordinario de la palabra ‘inversión’," Rev. Ecuatoriana Arb. No. 1 (2009)
"El mito del carácter ilimitado del derecho a la propiedad de los inversionistas," in El arbitraje internacional: cuestiones de actualidad 241 (2009)
"Are States Liable for the Conduct of their Instrumentalities? - ICC Case Law," in State Entities in International Arbitration, IAI Series on International Arbitration No. 4, at 31 (E. Gaillard and J. Younan eds., Juris Publishing, 2008)
"Panorama de jurisprudence latino-américaine," Cahiers de l'arbitrage, Gaz. Pal., Mar. 28-29, 2008 (with F. Mantilla-Serrano)
"El arbitraje institucional y sus contratos aledaños," in Los Contratos en el Derecho Privado (2007) (with F. Mantilla-Serrano)
"Las tensiones del arbitraje internacional," in Arbitraje Internacional - Tensiones Actuales xii (F. Mantilla-Serrano ed., Legis, 2007)
"Quelques brèves observations du point de vue de la Cour internationale d’arbitrage de la Chambre de Commerce Internationale," in Le contentieux arbitral transnational relatif à l’investissement (2006)
"Chronique des sentences arbitrales de la Chambre de Commerce Internationale – commentaire sous la sentence intérimaire sur la responsabilité No. 10671, 133(4) J.D.I. 1417 (2006)
"Chronique des sentences arbitrales de la Chambre de Commerce Internationale – commentaire sous la sentence finale No. 11426," 133(4) J.D.I. 1443 (2006)
"Crónica sobre jurisprudencia en materia de arbitraje," Revista Internacional de Arbitraje, Boletín del Comité Colombiano de Arbitraje (CCA) (2005)
"La circulation des conventions d’arbitrage dans les droits d’Amérique Latine," Médiation et arbitrage / Alternative dispute resolution (2005)
"International arbitration involving state parties. Observations on the applicable law in state contract arbitrations," 2(6) Rev. Arb. Med. 176 (2005)
"Requiem for the Rules of Article 177(2) of the Swiss Private International Law Act," in Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolution - Liber Amicorum in honour of Robert Briner 825 (ICC Pub. No. 693, 2005)
"The Dialectic of International Arbitration Involving State Parties: Observations on the Applicable Law in State Contract Arbitration," 15(2) ICC Bull. 79 (2004)
"América Latina como sede de arbitrajes comerciales internacionales. La experiencia de la Corte Internacional de Arbitraje de la CCI," Revista DeCITA 217 (Feb. 2004)
"Breves observaciones sobre la ‘modernidad’ del arbitraje internacional. A propósito de la Nueva Ley Española de Arbitraje," Actualidad Jurídica (Uría & Menéndez), N° 9, at 11 (2004)
"La Distinción entre 'Estado' y 'Administración' y el Arbitraje Resultante de 'Contratos de Estado'," 2004(1) Rev. Bras. Arb. 73
"América Latina como sede de arbitrajes comerciales internacionales," 1(1) Rev. Arb. Med. 88 (2004)
"Multiparty and Multicontract Arbitration: Recent ICC Experience," in Complex Arbitrations 7 (ICC Pub. No. 688E, 2003) (with A.M. Whitesell)
"Reflexiones sobre el contrato de arbitraje - Algunas confusiones conceptuales en derecho colombiano," in Estudios de Derecho Civil – Obligaciones y Contratos – Libro Homenaje a Fernando Hinestrosa 289 (2003)
"La sede del arbitraje comercial internacional: la perspectiva de la Corte Internacional de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional," II(4) Revista de Derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Montevideo 93 (2003)
"La 'jurisprudencia' arbitral de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional en materia de derecho aplicable a los contratos internacionales de distribución. Breve contribución al derecho internacional privado colombiano," in Derecho Internacional de los Negocios
"ICC Arbitration and State Contracts," 13(1) ICC Bull. 34 (2002)
"Las normas jurídicas aplicables en el arbitraje comercial internacional – Breve contribución al derecho internacional privado colombiano," 28 Rev. Der. priv. 3 (2002)
"El sistema de arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional y la situación del arbitraje institucional en Colombia," 23 Foro del Jurista – Métodos alternativos de solución de conflictos 171 (Revista de la Cámara de Comercio de Medellín para Antioquia,
"La filosofía del sistema de arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio Internacional," 2002 Impulso 18
"The Application of Philosophy of Law’s Method in International Commercial Arbitration," 5(1) Vindobona J. 87 (2001)
Crónica de jurisprudencia arbitral de la CCI, Revista de Derecho Internacional y del Mercosur (since 2002)

Honours

ICSID Case No. ARB/04/7 (Annulment), Sociedad Anónima Eduardo Vieira v. Chile, Decision on Annulment, 10 Dec 2010

Links

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Expertise

The legal issues and sectors decided most often in the published awards. Each links to the cases in the database.

denial of benefits 1ECT Article 17(1) 1timing of denial of benefits notice 1bifurcation 1ICSID Arbitration Rule 44 1lis pendens 1abuse of process 1fork-in-the-road 1Article 26(3)(b)(i) Annex ID 1privity of interest 1parallel proceedings 1prematurity 1Energy Charter Treaty 1Caruna 1Suomi Power Networks 1Finnish Market Court 1highly confidential information 1transparency 1