Carlos Gómez Gutiérrez

Carlos Gomez Gutierrez represents clients in commercial and investment arbitrations concerning complex disputes, primarily focused on the engineering and construction of large energy & infrastructure projects.

Carlos is an associate in the International Arbitration practice of the Paris office. He is qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and as an Abogado at the Madrid Bar. He is also admitted to practice at the Paris Bar as a Registered European Lawyer.

He holds an MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King's College London and is a founding member of the International Chapter Committee of the French Society of Construction Law (Association Francaise pour le Droit de la Construction et de l'Immobilier).

Before joining Mayer Brown, Carlos worked at City law firms and a top-30 global contractor.

In addition to his native Spanish, Carlos is fluent in English and has professional proficiency in French.

• Acting for a state-owned entity in the power sector in a commercial arbitration (LCIA Rules, London seat) with respect to a dispute arising out of a power purchase agreement.
• Acting for a Middle Eastern company in a PCA administered UNCITRAL investor-state arbitration against a North African State relating to major construction projects in that country.
• Representing a consortium of three leading European contractors in a dispute with a subcontractor concerning the design, manufacture and supply of a major item of equipment to be installed in a concentrated solar power plant in Africa (ICC arbitration, Geneva seat, Swiss law).
• Acted for a European contractor in an arbitration (ICC Rules, Geneva seat, Swiss law) in relation to the construction of an oil refinery in Southeast Asia. The dispute arouse out of a subcontract for electro-mechanical works, and focused on the delay in the completion of the works, the main contractor's entitlement to backcharge costs incurred as a result of the subcontractor's failure to comply with its obligations, and the determination of the price of items not priced in the bill of quantities.
• Represented a consortium of three leading European contractors in two arbitration proceedings (ICC Rules, Paris and London seat respectively, English law) related to the engineering and construction of two concentrated solar power plants in Africa. The disputes centered around a claim against the owner of the plants for an upside payment related to the plants' performance and defect counterclaims.

• King's College London, MSc in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dual Master's Degree in Law and Business Administration I

• England and Wales
• Madrid
• Paris

• English
• French
• Spanish