Alejandro López Ortiz

Prominent experience as Counsel

Recent or pending arbitration or court proceedings in which Alejandro López Ortiz was involved include:

• Advising on a number of ICC arbitrations in connection with the design and construction of a major maritime project in Central America.
• Representing a foreign investor in an ICC arbitration related with the management of a power generation company in Dominican Republic.
• Representing a consortium of Central American construction companies against a dredging European company in an ICC arbitration related to the construction of a port oil terminal in Costa Rica.
• Representing a company from the Middle East, owner of a hotel in Togo, in a dispute before a DAB related to a series of claims by the contractor with respect to the works for the refurbishing of the hotel.
• Representing a Canadian investor in a NAFTA Arbitration under the Rules of ICSID’s Additional Facility against the United Mexican States in a dispute related to Claimant’s expropriation of assets and real estate rights.
• Representing a Latin American State in three investment treaty arbitrations, two before ICSID and a third pursuant to the UNCITRAL Rules, related to different measures of nationalization of assets.
• Representing a Latin American State in proceedings related to the enforcement of an ICSID award in Spain.
• Acting for a Turkish investor in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Azerbaijan in a dispute related to a concession in the electricity sector.
• Representing several Spanish companies in two ICC arbitrations against a Texan company, related to the distribution of works within the consortium for the construction of a petrochemical plant in Mexico.
• Representing a construction company in an arbitration before the Madrid Court of Arbitration, related to the purchase of wind turbines for the construction of a wind farm in Spain.
• Acting for an international telecommunications group in two ICDR arbitrations regarding the application of inter-connect agreements in El Salvador.
• Representing the owner of a biodiesel plant in Spain in an international arbitration against an Austrian construction company, related to defaults in the construction and in the coordination of various interim-measure proceedings in Spain and Austria.
• Representing a major multinational insurance group in an arbitration against a one of the main Spanish bank entities, related to the breach of a bank-assurance venture.
• Representing a Spanish technology company in a SIAC arbitration in Singapore against a Vietnamese State-owned company.

Prominent experience as Arbitrator

• Sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration related to a distribution contract between a Brazilian and a French company, for the distribution of textile products in Brazil.
• Sole arbitrator in two related ICC arbitrations, concerning projects for the construction of solar plants in Spain and Portugal.
• Sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration related to a purchase agreement of construction components for the construction of a solar plant in Spain.
• President of the arbitral tribunal in ad-hoc arbitration in Madrid, related to a franchise agreement in the sanitary sector.
• Co-arbitrator in an arbitration before the Madrid Court of Arbitration related to the termination of an administration contract for pharmaceutical products.
• Sole arbitrator in an arbitration before the Madrid Court of Arbitration related to a contract for the construction of a solar plant in Spain.
• Sole arbitrator in an arbitration before the Madrid Court of Arbitration related to a breach of non-competition clauses contained in an agreement for the purchase of a technology company in Belgium and Spain.

Academnic Experience

• Lecturer on International Arbitration of the Instituto de Empresas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Centre of Studies Garrigues (Madrid).

London School of Economics and Political Science, LLM on International Business Law

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Licenciado en Derecho

• Paris
• Madrid

• Member of the Sub-Committee on Investment Arbitration of the IBA.
• Member of the ICC’s Task Force on the Revision of the Rules of ICC as Appointing Authority in UNCITRAL or other ad-hoc Arbitration Proceedings.
• Member of the ICC’s Task Force on the New York Convention of 1958 for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
• Reporter for the study “Legal Instruments and Practice of Arbitration in the EU” published by the European Parliament in 2014.
• Member of the ICC’s Latin American Group.
• Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.
• Member of the Consulting Body of the Arbitration Center of the Construction Industry in Mexico.
• Member of the ICDR panel of arbitrators.
• Member of the panel of arbitrators of the Madrid Court of Arbitration.
• Member the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) and former co-chair of its below 40 section.
• Member the Executive Committee of the French Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club.
• Member of the ICDR-Y&I and former member of Global Advisory Board.
• Member of the Association Suisse d’Arbitrage (ASA).