Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Gonzalo specialises in national and international arbitration, and he has experience in the application of Cuban, Peruvian, Hungarian, Libyan, and Egyptian law as well as the law of major European jurisdictions.

He also has acted as senior counsel in commercial arbitrations involving, among other matters, heavy plant construction, protection of foreign investment, distribution agreements, and technology transfer. He has served primarily as counsel for parties in international arbitration but has also acted as secretary to international arbitration tribunals. To date, Gonzalo has been involved in numerous arbitrations under the rules of the major international institutions, including, in particular, ICC, CRCICA, HCA, and LCIA.

In addition, he has represented important domestic and international clients as lead trial counsel in commercial arbitration and litigation matters in Spanish courts and tribunals.

Gonzalo is a frequent speaker at forums and seminars in Madrid and contributes articles to specialised legal journals. He teaches at Aliter Business School in Madrid and lectures at the Madrid Bar Association on national and international arbitration matters. He is a member of the Legal and Economic Investigation Institute, CIMA (Corte Civil y Mercantil de Arbitraje en Madrid), the Court for Arbitration in Sport, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Gonzalo is fluent in Spanish and English.

Areas of Practice

• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Trial Practice
• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Construction Litigation
• Construction

Representative Cases

• Enersis S.A., Chilectra S.A., Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A. y Elesur S.A. (Grupo Enersis Y Elesur) v. República Argentina (ICSID Case No. ARB/03/21)

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Contracts, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Madrid, Spain

Education

• U Complutense Madrid - Spain

Published Works

• El conflicto del plátano: el régimen para la importación venta y distribución de plátanos en la Unión Europea; 2004 (IV) Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado, 2004
• Los retos de la Nueva Ley de Arbitraje; Info. Cámara de Comercio Hispano Sueca 29, 2004
• The 2003 Arbitration Act, 22 Asa Bulletin 671, 2004
• New Trends in Spanish Arbitration, Dispute Resolution Journal 62, 2004
• Motivos y propuestas para la reforma de la Ley de Arbitraje; 2003 (5785) Diario La Ley 1, 2003
• Gerichtsverfahren in Zivil und Handelssachen in Unternehmerhandbuch 3.Auflage 2001, Deutsche Handelskammer für Spanien, 2001
• Enforcement of Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses in Spain, 2001 (6) Arbitration and ADR, 2001
• Arbitration Law in Spain: Taking-Off…At Least?, 2001 (3) Int.A.L.R. 84, 2001
• Court Issues Writ Implementing Precautionary Measures Simultaneous To International Arbitration Proceedings, Int.A.L.R. N-19, 2000
• España, sede de arbitrajes internacionales: un despegue abortado; 2000 (4981) Diario La Ley 1; 1 (2000) Revista Jurídica La Ley D-23, 1678, 2000
• Traducción al español del Reglamento de Arbitraje de la LCIA de 1998, 1998
• Traducción al español de la Ley Inglesa de Arbitraje de 1996 en HUNTER & LANDAU: The English Arbitration Act 1996. Kluwer Law International. The Hague, 1997
• Transnational Litigation: a Practitioner's Guide, Chapter on Spanish Law, Oceana Publications Inc., New York, 1997
• Los plazos preclusivos en el Arbitraje: reflexiones sobre el artículo 25.2 de la Ley 36/1.988, de 5 de diciembre; 1996 Revista de la Corte Española de Arbitraje 175, 1996
• New Trends in Chapter X of the 1988 Spanish Arbitration Act, American Bar Association. Section on International Law and Practice, International Commercial Arbitration Committee Newsletter, v.2, 1996
• Seeking an Effective Confidentiality in International Arbitration, American Bar Association, Section on International Law and Practice, International Commercial Arbitration Committee Newsletter, v.3, 1995
• Defining the Limits of Special Jurisdiction, International Litigation News, 1995
• Concurrent Negligence in the Lex Mercatoria, American Bar Association, Section on International Law and Practice, International Commercial Arbitration Committee Newsletter, v.2, 1995
• Holding Companies and Arbitration Clauses, American Bar Association, Section on International Law and Practice, International Commercial Arbitration Committee Newsletter, Vol.4, 1994
• Commercial Arbitration in Spain: History and Current Legislation, The Japanese Commercial Arbitration Association Quarterly, 1994

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