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Board of Directors
Silvia Marchili
Chair
Silvia M. Marchili focuses on complex international arbitration cases involving investment and commercial claims. She handles international arbitration and litigation matters involving Latin America and Africa, and a variety of sectors, including oil and gas, power, construction, mining, air transportation, and infrastructure. Silvia is bilingual and trained in both civil and common law.
With more than 15 years of experience, Silvia represents parties in investment arbitrations before international tribunals under the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention, as well as under other arbitration rules. In recent cases, she has obtained some of the largest ICSID Bilateral Investment Treaty awards ever received by foreign investors. An expert in investment arbitration, Silvia co-authored, with R. Doak Bishop, the treatise Annulment Under the ICSID Convention (Oxford University Press).
In commercial arbitrations, Silvia has represented parties in cases under the International Chamber of Commerce, London Court of International Arbitration, UN Commission on International Trade Law, Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association rules.
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia is fluent in Spanish and English, and has working knowledge of Italian and French, along with a basic understanding of German. She is a frequent author and speaker on arbitration and dispute resolution.
White & Case LLP
1200 Smith Street, Suite 2300
Houston, Texas 77002
Phone: (713) 496 9728
Fax: (713) 496 9701
Ines Calderon
Executive Director
Academic Board Members
Sandra Friedrich
Academic, Ex-Officio
Professor Sandra Friedrich is the Director of the White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. Graduate Program and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, she practiced law at Latham & Watkins in New York, focusing on complex commercial and investment arbitration proceedings, as well as related litigation. She teaches courses on international arbitration, and has taught courses on International Business Transactions, European Union Law and German Law at Miami. She is co-author of several publications on international commercial and investment arbitration, including an article on Disclosure in International Arbitration Proceedings in the United States published in the American Review of International Arbitration, an article on Investment Arbitration in East Asia and the Pacific published in the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and a book chapter on Witnesses, Subpoenas, Documents and the Relationship Between the FAA and State Law published by Wolters Kluwer.
Professor Friedrich is admitted to the New York Bar. Before she obtained her J.D. from Miami Law, she received a maîtrise en droit from the Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and then an LL.M. degree with a specialization in international economic law from the University of Cologne and the Université Paris I.
Director, White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. Graduate Program; Lecturer in Law
University of Miami School of Law.
1311 Miller Road,
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-1965
Professor Sandra Friedrich is the Director of the White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. Graduate Program and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, she practiced law at Latham & Watkins in New York, focusing on complex commercial and investment arbitration proceedings, as well as related litigation. She teaches courses on international arbitration, and has taught courses on International Business Transactions, European Union Law and German Law at Miami. She is co-author of several publications on international commercial and investment arbitration, including an article on Disclosure in International Arbitration Proceedings in the United States published in the American Review of International Arbitration, an article on Investment Arbitration in East Asia and the Pacific published in the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and a book chapter on Witnesses, Subpoenas, Documents and the Relationship Between the FAA and State Law published by Wolters Kluwer.
Professor Friedrich is admitted to the New York Bar. Before she obtained her J.D. from Miami Law, she received a maîtrise en droit from the Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and then an LL.M. degree with a specialization in international economic law from the University of Cologne and the Université Paris I.
Director, White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. Graduate Program; Lecturer in Law
University of Miami School of Law.
1311 Miller Road,
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-1965
Manuel A. Gomez
Secretary and
Academic, Ex-Officio
Manuel A. Gómez has years of law teaching experience, both in the U.S. and in Latin America, and professional practice in Latin America, Professor Gómez brings a valuable international scholarly experience to the College of Law. He currently serves at the College of Law’s Coordinator of International Legal Projects and leads the Global Legal Studies Initiative. Before joining FIU, Professor Gómez was a Lecturer in Law and a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School, where he had academic responsibility for the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies. Professor Gómez also led a working group on Law and Policy in Latin America sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Since 1995 he has also been a member of the Faculty at the Universidad Central de Venezuela Law School (Caracas, Venezuela), and in different occasions, a visiting professor at the Universidad Católica del Táchira (1996), Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2000-2001), Universidad Metropolitana Law School (2005), and Universidad Sergio Arboleda of Colombia (2009-present) Professor Gómez teaches, conducts research and writes academic papers in a variety of areas including the impact of social networks on dispute processing, private order, international arbitration, complex litigation in Latin America, legal and institutional reform in Latin America, legal education reform and the globalization of the legal profession.
In the Spring of 2011, Professor Gómez received FIU’s inaugural Bhagwan Mahavir Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship to conduct research on dispute resolution among Jain diamond merchants. Professor Gómez’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications in the U.S., South America and Europe, and has received several prestigious awards, including the Law and Society Association’s Dissertation Prize, the Richard S. Goldsmith Award in Dispute Resolution at Stanford University, as well as the annual prize awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Professor Gómez’s latest book, Law in Many Societies (Stanford U. Press 2011, co-edited with Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo) has already received several accolades in the academic world. Professor Gómez has also served as expert in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, as well as in court proceedings involving foreign parties in the U.S. Professor Gómez has also been appointed as an international arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, and is a founding member of the Miami International Arbitration Society.
College of Law
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th Street, RDB 2015
Miami, Florida 33199
Phone: (305) 348-1158
Academic, Ex-Officio
Manuel A. Gómez has years of law teaching experience, both in the U.S. and in Latin America, and professional practice in Latin America, Professor Gómez brings a valuable international scholarly experience to the College of Law. He currently serves at the College of Law’s Coordinator of International Legal Projects and leads the Global Legal Studies Initiative. Before joining FIU, Professor Gómez was a Lecturer in Law and a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School, where he had academic responsibility for the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies. Professor Gómez also led a working group on Law and Policy in Latin America sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Since 1995 he has also been a member of the Faculty at the Universidad Central de Venezuela Law School (Caracas, Venezuela), and in different occasions, a visiting professor at the Universidad Católica del Táchira (1996), Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2000-2001), Universidad Metropolitana Law School (2005), and Universidad Sergio Arboleda of Colombia (2009-present) Professor Gómez teaches, conducts research and writes academic papers in a variety of areas including the impact of social networks on dispute processing, private order, international arbitration, complex litigation in Latin America, legal and institutional reform in Latin America, legal education reform and the globalization of the legal profession.
In the Spring of 2011, Professor Gómez received FIU’s inaugural Bhagwan Mahavir Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship to conduct research on dispute resolution among Jain diamond merchants. Professor Gómez’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications in the U.S., South America and Europe, and has received several prestigious awards, including the Law and Society Association’s Dissertation Prize, the Richard S. Goldsmith Award in Dispute Resolution at Stanford University, as well as the annual prize awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Professor Gómez’s latest book, Law in Many Societies (Stanford U. Press 2011, co-edited with Lawrence M. Friedman and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo) has already received several accolades in the academic world. Professor Gómez has also served as expert in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, as well as in court proceedings involving foreign parties in the U.S. Professor Gómez has also been appointed as an international arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, and is a founding member of the Miami International Arbitration Society.
College of Law
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th Street, RDB 2015
Miami, Florida 33199
Phone: (305) 348-1158
Joan Stearns Johnsen
Academic, Ex-Officio
Joan Stearns Johnsen is a skills professor specializing in areas related to alternative dispute resolution. Professor Johnsen has been mediating and arbitrating large complex commercial cases primarily in the areas of securities, general corporate, and employment law for over twenty years. Professor Johnsen is on the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association , the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Health Lawyers Association and mediation panels of The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division. Professor Johnsen’s legal experience includes as a trial attorney in the Enforcement Division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., and as Corporate Counsel for Smith Barney and as Associate General Counsel for the Commodity Exchange, Inc. both in New York. Professor Johnsen was also a visiting assistant clinical professor and the director of the securities arbitration clinic at Albany Law School.
Professor Johnsen also is in the leadership of the American Bar Association’s sections of Dispute Resolution and Litigation. She serves as the Dispute Resolution section’s continuing legal education officer and as a member of that section’s executive committee. She is also co-chair of the Mediation Subcommittee of the Section of Litigation’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. She also serves on the New York State Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee, and on the Banking and Financial Services Committee for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. She is also a member of the Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution where she sits on the Banking and Financial Services Committee. Professor Johnsen is Vice Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute (CIArb) and has been certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI).
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Box #117626
Gainesville FL 32611
Phone: (617) 549-0742
Joan Stearns Johnsen is a skills professor specializing in areas related to alternative dispute resolution. Professor Johnsen has been mediating and arbitrating large complex commercial cases primarily in the areas of securities, general corporate, and employment law for over twenty years. Professor Johnsen is on the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association , the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Health Lawyers Association and mediation panels of The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division. Professor Johnsen’s legal experience includes as a trial attorney in the Enforcement Division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., and as Corporate Counsel for Smith Barney and as Associate General Counsel for the Commodity Exchange, Inc. both in New York. Professor Johnsen was also a visiting assistant clinical professor and the director of the securities arbitration clinic at Albany Law School.
Professor Johnsen also is in the leadership of the American Bar Association’s sections of Dispute Resolution and Litigation. She serves as the Dispute Resolution section’s continuing legal education officer and as a member of that section’s executive committee. She is also co-chair of the Mediation Subcommittee of the Section of Litigation’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. She also serves on the New York State Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee, and on the Banking and Financial Services Committee for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. She is also a member of the Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution where she sits on the Banking and Financial Services Committee. Professor Johnsen is Vice Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute (CIArb) and has been certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI).
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Box #117626
Gainesville FL 32611
Phone: (617) 549-0742
Directors Emeritus
Burt Landy
Founding Chairman & Director
Burton A. Landy is Senior Counsel with the Harper Meyer law firm. He is one of Florida's pre-eminent international lawyers and has been at the forefront of Florida's development into a leading international trade and finance center.
His practice spans over a period of more than fifty years and involves both counseling foreign firms and investors on structuring their U.S. operations and investments and U.S. companies on their worldwide operations and investments. He travels frequently to Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe and is fluent in Spanish.
Mr. Landy is the Founding Chairman of the Miami International Arbitration Society and is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator. He actively serves as both a sole arbitrator and as Chairman and member of tribunals in a wide variety of transborder arbitrations under ICSID, ICC, ICDR and UNCITRAL Rules.
He has served as President of the Inter-American Bar Association and is Founding General Counsel to the Florida International Bankers Association. Mr. Landy is a past Chair of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Agency for International Development's Latin American Business Promotion Advisory Council as well as the City of Miami's International Trade and Development Board.
A two-term president of the World Trade Center in Miami, he has also chaired the Florida Council of International Development, and the Beacon Council, Greater Miami's Economic Development organization. He currently serves as Honorary Consul General to the Republic of Korea for the State of Florida, is founding, chairman of the Southeast US/Korea Economic Committee. He was awarded the Heung-In Medal (Order of Diplomatic Service Merit) by the Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan.
Mr. Landy earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law and has also studied at the National University of Mexico and the University of Havana. He lectures frequently, has taught graduate courses on Latin America Commercial Law at the University of Miami and has published articles on international aviation law, foreign trade zones, aquaculture, tax planning for foreign investors and related topics. Mr. Landy has received numerous awards, among which are the University of Miami School of Law's "Lawyer of the Americas," and the Inter-American Bar Association's "Diploma de Honor."
Harper Meyer Perez Hagen O'Connor Albert & Dribin LLP
201 S. Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 577-3443
Burton A. Landy is Senior Counsel with the Harper Meyer law firm. He is one of Florida's pre-eminent international lawyers and has been at the forefront of Florida's development into a leading international trade and finance center.
His practice spans over a period of more than fifty years and involves both counseling foreign firms and investors on structuring their U.S. operations and investments and U.S. companies on their worldwide operations and investments. He travels frequently to Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe and is fluent in Spanish.
Mr. Landy is the Founding Chairman of the Miami International Arbitration Society and is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator. He actively serves as both a sole arbitrator and as Chairman and member of tribunals in a wide variety of transborder arbitrations under ICSID, ICC, ICDR and UNCITRAL Rules.
He has served as President of the Inter-American Bar Association and is Founding General Counsel to the Florida International Bankers Association. Mr. Landy is a past Chair of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Agency for International Development's Latin American Business Promotion Advisory Council as well as the City of Miami's International Trade and Development Board.
A two-term president of the World Trade Center in Miami, he has also chaired the Florida Council of International Development, and the Beacon Council, Greater Miami's Economic Development organization. He currently serves as Honorary Consul General to the Republic of Korea for the State of Florida, is founding, chairman of the Southeast US/Korea Economic Committee. He was awarded the Heung-In Medal (Order of Diplomatic Service Merit) by the Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan.
Mr. Landy earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law and has also studied at the National University of Mexico and the University of Havana. He lectures frequently, has taught graduate courses on Latin America Commercial Law at the University of Miami and has published articles on international aviation law, foreign trade zones, aquaculture, tax planning for foreign investors and related topics. Mr. Landy has received numerous awards, among which are the University of Miami School of Law's "Lawyer of the Americas," and the Inter-American Bar Association's "Diploma de Honor."
Harper Meyer Perez Hagen O'Connor Albert & Dribin LLP
201 S. Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 577-3443
Jose I. Astigarraga
Director Emeritus
Described as "a major figure for Latin American litigation and arbitration [who] represents large U.S., European and South American corporations" by Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Business Lawyers, Jose Astigarraga has accumulated broad experience in international business disputes in his 30 years of practice. Recently given the "Lawyer of the Americas" award by the University of Miami School of Law Interamerican Law Review for distinguished contribution to the field of international law, Astigarraga has handled business disputes emanating from most countries in Latin America.
The U.S. Government appointed him as one of 10 representatives to the tri-partite committee advising the NAFTA commission on international arbitration and alternative means of resolving private commercial disputes as well as an expert to the international law conference of the Organization of American States. His experience goes beyond Latin America - he serves as vice president of the 35-member London Court of International Arbitration. Recently he was recognized as one of the year's "Most Effective Lawyers" by a legal journal for leading the team that won an arbitral award of U.S. $52 Million plus attorneys' fees in a claim over international licensing rights in the Mercosur region that included parallel litigation proceedings in the U.S. , Brazilian and Argentine courts.
As Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Law Center for Interamerican Free Trade, he is active in efforts to promote commercial law reform and modernization in the Americas.
Reed Smith LLP
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, Floor 9
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0201
Fax: (305) 372-8202
Described as "a major figure for Latin American litigation and arbitration [who] represents large U.S., European and South American corporations" by Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Business Lawyers, Jose Astigarraga has accumulated broad experience in international business disputes in his 30 years of practice. Recently given the "Lawyer of the Americas" award by the University of Miami School of Law Interamerican Law Review for distinguished contribution to the field of international law, Astigarraga has handled business disputes emanating from most countries in Latin America.
The U.S. Government appointed him as one of 10 representatives to the tri-partite committee advising the NAFTA commission on international arbitration and alternative means of resolving private commercial disputes as well as an expert to the international law conference of the Organization of American States. His experience goes beyond Latin America - he serves as vice president of the 35-member London Court of International Arbitration. Recently he was recognized as one of the year's "Most Effective Lawyers" by a legal journal for leading the team that won an arbitral award of U.S. $52 Million plus attorneys' fees in a claim over international licensing rights in the Mercosur region that included parallel litigation proceedings in the U.S. , Brazilian and Argentine courts.
As Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Law Center for Interamerican Free Trade, he is active in efforts to promote commercial law reform and modernization in the Americas.
Reed Smith LLP
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, Floor 9
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0201
Fax: (305) 372-8202
Adolfo Jimenez
Past Chair, Director Emeritus
Adolfo E. Jimenez is a partner in Holland & Knight's Miami office. Mr. Jimenez practices in litigation with emphasis in international disputes. He is the practice group leader for Holland & Knight's South Florida Litigation Group and the team leader for the firm's International Arbitration and Litigation Team. He also practices in the areas of media law, maritime and transportation with extensive litigation and trial experience. In addition to his civil litigation practice, Mr. Jimenez has represented clients in arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the China International Trade and Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and cases administered under the UNCITRAL Rules. He has also served as an arbitrator in ICC and ICDR cases.
Holland & Knight
701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3000
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-789- 7720
Fax: 305-789-7799
Adolfo E. Jimenez is a partner in Holland & Knight's Miami office. Mr. Jimenez practices in litigation with emphasis in international disputes. He is the practice group leader for Holland & Knight's South Florida Litigation Group and the team leader for the firm's International Arbitration and Litigation Team. He also practices in the areas of media law, maritime and transportation with extensive litigation and trial experience. In addition to his civil litigation practice, Mr. Jimenez has represented clients in arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the China International Trade and Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and cases administered under the UNCITRAL Rules. He has also served as an arbitrator in ICC and ICDR cases.
Holland & Knight
701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3000
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: 305-789- 7720
Fax: 305-789-7799
Cristina Cárdenas
Director Emeritus
Cristina Cárdenas focuses her practice on international litigation and arbitration. Her experience includes the representation of U.S. and Latin American corporate clients in a variety of business related disputes. She serves as counsel in US courts and in arbitral tribunals in the US and abroad.
Cárdenas has been recognized as an “Up and Coming Individual” by both Chambers Latin America and Chambers USA. She has also been named a 2012 and 2013 “Florida Rising Star” by the publication Super Lawyers, and was named in “20 Under 40” by the publication Poder 360, which highlighted 20 people under age 40 who have exerted influence over the arts, business, education and media in Miami.
Cárdenas serves as chair of the Disputes Division of the ABA’s Section of International Law. She also served as Vice Chair to the 2014 ICCA Congress host committee. She has lived, studied, and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America. She has native professional fluency in Spanish.
Cárdenas received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Political Science and Latin American Studies. Cárdenas obtained her J.D. from the University of Florida, where she also served as Assistant Editor in Chief of the Florida Journal of International Law. Following her graduation from law school, Cárdenas obtained an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Miami.
She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and all Florida state courts.
Reed Smith LLP
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, Floor 9
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0204
Fax: (305) 372-8202
Cristina Cárdenas focuses her practice on international litigation and arbitration. Her experience includes the representation of U.S. and Latin American corporate clients in a variety of business related disputes. She serves as counsel in US courts and in arbitral tribunals in the US and abroad.
Cárdenas has been recognized as an “Up and Coming Individual” by both Chambers Latin America and Chambers USA. She has also been named a 2012 and 2013 “Florida Rising Star” by the publication Super Lawyers, and was named in “20 Under 40” by the publication Poder 360, which highlighted 20 people under age 40 who have exerted influence over the arts, business, education and media in Miami.
Cárdenas serves as chair of the Disputes Division of the ABA’s Section of International Law. She also served as Vice Chair to the 2014 ICCA Congress host committee. She has lived, studied, and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America. She has native professional fluency in Spanish.
Cárdenas received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Political Science and Latin American Studies. Cárdenas obtained her J.D. from the University of Florida, where she also served as Assistant Editor in Chief of the Florida Journal of International Law. Following her graduation from law school, Cárdenas obtained an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Miami.
She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and all Florida state courts.
Reed Smith LLP
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, Floor 9
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0204
Fax: (305) 372-8202
Daniel E. González
Director Emeritus
Daniel E. González serves as Global Head of Hogan Lovells’ international arbitration practice. Dan dedicates his full-time practice to international commercial litigation and arbitration, representing clients' interests in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. With a focus on construction and infrastructure, as well as energy, financial services, securities, and telecommunications, Dan provides deep acumen into industry matters involving commercial, distributorship, technology, engineering, procurement, construction, and design/build contracts, among others. He helps clients handle issues arising during projects, as well as dispute avoidance, and dispute resolution. These include mediation, expert determination, adjudication, dispute boards, arbitration, and court proceedings. He provides fully bilingual (English and Spanish) counsel in both common and civil law jurisdictions to effectively provide strategy and analysis in achieving favorable results. As lead trial and arbitral counsel in multijurisdictional disputes, Dan has tried matters from inception through to judgment or confirmation of the award.
As a leading practitioner in the field of international arbitration, he has also been appointed as arbitrator in numerous matters. He is a frequent speaker on issues related to arbitration in emerging markets and is currently a professor at the University of Miami School of Law where he is teaching Forensics of Advocacy in International Arbitration. In addition to teaching and speaking, he serves on the board of several industry organizations including the Miami International Arbitration Society, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Technology in International Arbitration.
Hogan Lovells US LLP
600 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2700
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 459-6649
Fax: (305) 459-6550
Daniel E. González serves as Global Head of Hogan Lovells’ international arbitration practice. Dan dedicates his full-time practice to international commercial litigation and arbitration, representing clients' interests in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. With a focus on construction and infrastructure, as well as energy, financial services, securities, and telecommunications, Dan provides deep acumen into industry matters involving commercial, distributorship, technology, engineering, procurement, construction, and design/build contracts, among others. He helps clients handle issues arising during projects, as well as dispute avoidance, and dispute resolution. These include mediation, expert determination, adjudication, dispute boards, arbitration, and court proceedings. He provides fully bilingual (English and Spanish) counsel in both common and civil law jurisdictions to effectively provide strategy and analysis in achieving favorable results. As lead trial and arbitral counsel in multijurisdictional disputes, Dan has tried matters from inception through to judgment or confirmation of the award.
As a leading practitioner in the field of international arbitration, he has also been appointed as arbitrator in numerous matters. He is a frequent speaker on issues related to arbitration in emerging markets and is currently a professor at the University of Miami School of Law where he is teaching Forensics of Advocacy in International Arbitration. In addition to teaching and speaking, he serves on the board of several industry organizations including the Miami International Arbitration Society, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Technology in International Arbitration.
Hogan Lovells US LLP
600 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2700
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 459-6649
Fax: (305) 459-6550
John H. Rooney Jr.
Director Emeritus
Prior to starting his private practice, John Rooney was a partner in the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen. He was a member of the firm's International Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group, and is admitted to practice law in Florida, Texas and Louisiana (the only state of the United States with a civil law as opposed to common law system of private law). As an arbtirator, Mr. Rooney has arbitrated under the rules of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the International Chamber of Commerce.
In addition, he has served as counsel in arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the rules of other institutions, and represented clients in arbitration-related litigation. He is the Chair of the International Arbitration Law Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association, and represents the IABA in the meetings of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Working Group. Mr. Rooney conducts the International Commercial Arbitration Seminar at the University of Miami School of Law, and is the coach of the University of Miami Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team.
He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish (and is presently chairing an arbitration conducted in Spanish), and has written and spoken extensively on the subject of international arbitration both in the United States and abroad.
John H. Rooney, Jr., P.A.
3250 Mary Street, Suite 100
Miami, FL 33133
Phone: (305) 804-4084
Fax: (786) 220-8361
Prior to starting his private practice, John Rooney was a partner in the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen. He was a member of the firm's International Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group, and is admitted to practice law in Florida, Texas and Louisiana (the only state of the United States with a civil law as opposed to common law system of private law). As an arbtirator, Mr. Rooney has arbitrated under the rules of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the International Chamber of Commerce.
In addition, he has served as counsel in arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the rules of other institutions, and represented clients in arbitration-related litigation. He is the Chair of the International Arbitration Law Committee of the Inter-American Bar Association, and represents the IABA in the meetings of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Working Group. Mr. Rooney conducts the International Commercial Arbitration Seminar at the University of Miami School of Law, and is the coach of the University of Miami Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team.
He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish (and is presently chairing an arbitration conducted in Spanish), and has written and spoken extensively on the subject of international arbitration both in the United States and abroad.
John H. Rooney, Jr., P.A.
3250 Mary Street, Suite 100
Miami, FL 33133
Phone: (305) 804-4084
Fax: (786) 220-8361
Edward Mullins
Director Emeritus
Ed Mullins is the Managing Partner of the Reed Smith Miami office and focuses his trial, arbitration, and appellate commercial litigation practice on international commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, and complex commercial litigation. He brings to this practice broad experience as a commercial litigator, having handled an array of commercial disputes over the years, including contract, business tort, media, intellectual property, shareholder, and class action disputes. He also serves as arbitrator and mediator, and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Commercial Arbitrators and is a member of the commercial panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association. He has served as arbitration counsel and trial counsel in international and trial disputes throughout the country. Ed has served as appellate counsel, having appeared in almost 100 appeals and appellate proceedings in federal and state courts including the Florida Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.
Reed Smith
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, 9th Floor
Miami, FL, 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0203
Fax: (786) 747-0299
Ed Mullins is the Managing Partner of the Reed Smith Miami office and focuses his trial, arbitration, and appellate commercial litigation practice on international commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, and complex commercial litigation. He brings to this practice broad experience as a commercial litigator, having handled an array of commercial disputes over the years, including contract, business tort, media, intellectual property, shareholder, and class action disputes. He also serves as arbitrator and mediator, and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Commercial Arbitrators and is a member of the commercial panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association. He has served as arbitration counsel and trial counsel in international and trial disputes throughout the country. Ed has served as appellate counsel, having appeared in almost 100 appeals and appellate proceedings in federal and state courts including the Florida Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.
Reed Smith
1001 Brickell Bay Drive, 9th Floor
Miami, FL, 33131
Phone: (786) 747-0203
Fax: (786) 747-0299
C Ryan Reetz
Director Emeritus
C. Ryan Reetz is the managing partner and co-founder of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's Miami office. He represents clients as trial counsel in international and domestic commercial and regulatory disputes, including investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, foreign sovereign immunity litigation, class actions, complex commercial litigation, and administrative proceedings. In addition to acting as counsel, he serves as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes.
Mr. Reetz frequently writes and lectures on arbitration and litigation topics. He teaches transnational civil litigation and arbitration as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, and taught the same subject at the University of Miami School of Law from 2003 to 2010. He also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Navarra School of Law in Pamplona, Spain. Mr. Reetz is also an instructor for the Florida Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has lectured at the Swiss Arbitration Academy and at a number of law schools, including Doshisha University, Marmara University, Istanbul Bilgi University and Istanbul Kültür University. He is the co-author (with Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga) of Public Purpose in International Law: Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era (Cambridge University Press 2005).
Mr. Reetz served as chair of the Florida Bar’s International Law Section from 2013-14, and he is currently active in several other professional organizations, including the American Law Institute, where he serves on member consultative groups for the Restatement (Third), The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration and the Restatement (Fourth), The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
200 S. Biscayne Blvd., #400
Miami, Florida 33131
Phone: (786) 322-7370
Fax: (786) 322-7470
C. Ryan Reetz is the managing partner and co-founder of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's Miami office. He represents clients as trial counsel in international and domestic commercial and regulatory disputes, including investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, foreign sovereign immunity litigation, class actions, complex commercial litigation, and administrative proceedings. In addition to acting as counsel, he serves as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes.
Mr. Reetz frequently writes and lectures on arbitration and litigation topics. He teaches transnational civil litigation and arbitration as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, and taught the same subject at the University of Miami School of Law from 2003 to 2010. He also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Navarra School of Law in Pamplona, Spain. Mr. Reetz is also an instructor for the Florida Regional Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has lectured at the Swiss Arbitration Academy and at a number of law schools, including Doshisha University, Marmara University, Istanbul Bilgi University and Istanbul Kültür University. He is the co-author (with Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga) of Public Purpose in International Law: Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era (Cambridge University Press 2005).
Mr. Reetz served as chair of the Florida Bar’s International Law Section from 2013-14, and he is currently active in several other professional organizations, including the American Law Institute, where he serves on member consultative groups for the Restatement (Third), The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration and the Restatement (Fourth), The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
200 S. Biscayne Blvd., #400
Miami, Florida 33131
Phone: (786) 322-7370
Fax: (786) 322-7470
David Orta
Director Emeritus
David Orta is Chair of the U.S. International Arbitration Practice and of the Latin America International Arbitration Practice. He is a trial lawyer and arbitration advocate with many years of experience successfully representing clients all over the world in complex international arbitrations (including investor-state (treaty) arbitrations and complex, international commercial arbitrations) and complex, commercial transnational litigations.
His clients and cases have spanned most continents, including North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and he represents both governments and investors in international arbitration matters. His experience spans many sectors, including energy, oil and gas, transportation, infrastructure, construction, power plant, telecommunications, mining, and post-merger and acquisition disputes.
David has handled numerous investor-state arbitrations under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties administered under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and has represented clients in treaty and commercial ad hoc arbitrations administered under UNCITRAL Rules and international commercial arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA). He has received various accolades for his work, including being named consistently as a Leading International Arbitration Advocate by Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Legal 500, Euromoney’s Expert’s Guide to the World’s Leading Commercial Arbitration
Most recently in 2021, David was selected as one of 500 litigators selected from around the world by Lawdragon 500 for Global Litigation. He was also named a Top 100 Lawyer for Arbitration & Litigation by Latinvex for 2018-2020. He has been named on two separate occasions (once by the National Law Journal and once by Washingtonian Magazine) as one of the Top 40 Lawyers under 40 in Washington, DC and selected numerous times for inclusion in Super Lawyers—Washington, D.C. for international arbitration. He regularly lectures on topics of international arbitration and public and private international law all around the world and has published numerous articles on topics of interest within the international arbitration community.
He holds a B. A. from Tulane University and a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Stetson University College of Law.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
1300 I Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20005
Office: 202-538-8000
Direct: 202-538-8129
David Orta is Chair of the U.S. International Arbitration Practice and of the Latin America International Arbitration Practice. He is a trial lawyer and arbitration advocate with many years of experience successfully representing clients all over the world in complex international arbitrations (including investor-state (treaty) arbitrations and complex, international commercial arbitrations) and complex, commercial transnational litigations.
His clients and cases have spanned most continents, including North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and he represents both governments and investors in international arbitration matters. His experience spans many sectors, including energy, oil and gas, transportation, infrastructure, construction, power plant, telecommunications, mining, and post-merger and acquisition disputes.
David has handled numerous investor-state arbitrations under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties administered under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and has represented clients in treaty and commercial ad hoc arbitrations administered under UNCITRAL Rules and international commercial arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA). He has received various accolades for his work, including being named consistently as a Leading International Arbitration Advocate by Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Legal 500, Euromoney’s Expert’s Guide to the World’s Leading Commercial Arbitration
Most recently in 2021, David was selected as one of 500 litigators selected from around the world by Lawdragon 500 for Global Litigation. He was also named a Top 100 Lawyer for Arbitration & Litigation by Latinvex for 2018-2020. He has been named on two separate occasions (once by the National Law Journal and once by Washingtonian Magazine) as one of the Top 40 Lawyers under 40 in Washington, DC and selected numerous times for inclusion in Super Lawyers—Washington, D.C. for international arbitration. He regularly lectures on topics of international arbitration and public and private international law all around the world and has published numerous articles on topics of interest within the international arbitration community.
He holds a B. A. from Tulane University and a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Stetson University College of Law.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
1300 I Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20005
Office: 202-538-8000
Direct: 202-538-8129
William K Hill
Director Emeritus
William K. Hill A seasoned business advocate, litigator and trial lawyer with more than three decades of experience, William Hill continuously strives to resolve complex disputes in and out of court throughout the country. William focuses on representation that reflects his perseverance and determination to resolve matters quickly, efficiently and thoroughly.
William is the first and only lawyer to be Florida Bar Board Certified in both Business Litigation and International Litigation & Arbitration. He represents businesses in a variety of industries such as banking and financial services, behavioral health and health care, technology, real estate, aviation, manufacturing, retail and government. William has also advised large public companies.
William represents clients in complex cases, including class actions and international arbitrations. His experience ranges from commercial disputes of all kinds to intellectual property, real estate, securities, product liability and RICO cases. He also advises clients on a national scale in the area of non-compete enforcement and defense.
William is committed to practicing with integrity and devising compelling arguments on behalf of clients. His goal is to take complicated issues and distill them into viable, cogent and persuasive positions.
Notably, William clerked for highly respected Judge William Hoeveler of the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.
He holds a B.S. from St. John’s College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Gunster
Brickell World Plaza, 600 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3500
Miami, FL 33131
P 305-376-6093
F 305-376-6010
William K. Hill A seasoned business advocate, litigator and trial lawyer with more than three decades of experience, William Hill continuously strives to resolve complex disputes in and out of court throughout the country. William focuses on representation that reflects his perseverance and determination to resolve matters quickly, efficiently and thoroughly.
William is the first and only lawyer to be Florida Bar Board Certified in both Business Litigation and International Litigation & Arbitration. He represents businesses in a variety of industries such as banking and financial services, behavioral health and health care, technology, real estate, aviation, manufacturing, retail and government. William has also advised large public companies.
William represents clients in complex cases, including class actions and international arbitrations. His experience ranges from commercial disputes of all kinds to intellectual property, real estate, securities, product liability and RICO cases. He also advises clients on a national scale in the area of non-compete enforcement and defense.
William is committed to practicing with integrity and devising compelling arguments on behalf of clients. His goal is to take complicated issues and distill them into viable, cogent and persuasive positions.
Notably, William clerked for highly respected Judge William Hoeveler of the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.
He holds a B.S. from St. John’s College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Gunster
Brickell World Plaza, 600 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3500
Miami, FL 33131
P 305-376-6093
F 305-376-6010
Carlos F. Concepcion
Director Emeritus
Carlos Concepción is Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. His practice concentrates on international litigation and arbitration involving financial services, construction disputes involving audit and defect claims, and transnational disputes involving parties and witnesses from multiple jurisdictions. He has substantial trial experience with multilingual and multicultural teams that provide a strategic advantage in dealing with parties and evidence from different legal systems, especially in South America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Carlos also has extensive experience in international corporate investigations and special litigation committees. He led an internal investigation and litigation team representing a special litigation committee in the failure of a major bank in Puerto Rico and a related shareholder derivative action. In addition, Carlos was lead counsel for several Canadian investors in a multidistrict litigation dispute regarding a time-share resort in the Dominican Republic.
Carlos also represents parties in international arbitrations in a number of industries. He has worked with all the leading arbitration organizations and has conducted proceedings in Spanish and English in which the seat of the arbitration and governing laws has been in multiple countries. He also has experience under the UNCITRAL Rules and the International Bar Association Rules. Carlos is a member of numerous organizations, including the International Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), which is the highest level of arbitration training and experience recognized by that institution.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Citigroup Center
201 South Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33131-4332
Phone: (305) 755-8975
Carlos Concepción is Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. His practice concentrates on international litigation and arbitration involving financial services, construction disputes involving audit and defect claims, and transnational disputes involving parties and witnesses from multiple jurisdictions. He has substantial trial experience with multilingual and multicultural teams that provide a strategic advantage in dealing with parties and evidence from different legal systems, especially in South America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Carlos also has extensive experience in international corporate investigations and special litigation committees. He led an internal investigation and litigation team representing a special litigation committee in the failure of a major bank in Puerto Rico and a related shareholder derivative action. In addition, Carlos was lead counsel for several Canadian investors in a multidistrict litigation dispute regarding a time-share resort in the Dominican Republic.
Carlos also represents parties in international arbitrations in a number of industries. He has worked with all the leading arbitration organizations and has conducted proceedings in Spanish and English in which the seat of the arbitration and governing laws has been in multiple countries. He also has experience under the UNCITRAL Rules and the International Bar Association Rules. Carlos is a member of numerous organizations, including the International Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), which is the highest level of arbitration training and experience recognized by that institution.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Citigroup Center
201 South Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33131-4332
Phone: (305) 755-8975
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