Agustin Spotorno
Associate
Agustin is an international disputes attorney trained and experienced in civil law and common law. He focuses his practice on international arbitration, cross-border litigation and public international law, advising on complex, high-stakes commercial, investor-State and State-to-State disputes around the world (notably throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East) including under various governing laws and procedural rules.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Assisting with training of Zambian Government officials on arbitration capacity-building for the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP).
- Representing a mining company in a high profile dispute against a South American country in relation to its copper and gold concessions.
- Representing a renewable energy investor in an investment treaty arbitration against a European country arising from its withdrawal of incentives that had been created for investors to invest in the construction and operation of solar energy plants.
- Providing advice to a Paralympics high-profile athlete in connection with an anti-doping investigation.
- Representing several hundred Chinese entities in a AAA-ICDR-administered mass arbitration against a multi-national online retailer.
- Advised a leading online gaming company in a Singapore-seated arbitration in connection with the breach of a sponsoring and licencing agreement entered into with an India-based party leading the online market place therein.
- Represented multiple investors in connection with a mass arbitration under the AAA-ICDR rules in the U.S. as a result of the conduct of a tech giant under a standard form-type contract governed by Washington law.
- A multi-million, high-profile investor-State dispute under the auspices of ICSID on behalf of an investor in the solar photovoltaic industry whose investments have been stifled as a result of the sudden withdrawals of incentives and other harmful actions by a European state against its investments.
- A multi-million, complex investor-State dispute under the auspices of ICSID on behalf of an investor in the wireless telecommunications industry whose investment has been destroyed as a result of the measures taken by an North African State.
- Advised a leading American multinational corporation leader in the manufacturing, design and sale of airplanes in connection with claims and investigations resulting from a well-known air crash.
- Advised an Australia-listed mining corporation on an imminent claim relating to the supply of ion lithium to a world leader US-based car manufacturing company under a English law-governed based arrangement.
- A multi-million, high-profile, complex, multi-jurisdictional LCIA arbitration and ancillary litigation proceedings in the British Virgin Islands and the United States, arising out of a billion-dollar project consisting of the construction, development, and operation of an ultra-high-end residential club community, luxury resort and marina in the Bahamas.
- A multi-billion Euro arbitration under DIFC-LCIA Rules (Dubai seat, English governing law) arising out of a shareholders’ agreement in connection with a claim brought by the subsidiary of one of the world’s leading online food delivery groups.
- An international dispute involving a NYSE and BASE-listed leading energy corporation, as a co-respondent with a sovereign state in a complex, multi-jurisdictional and multibillion dollar claim arising from the sovereign state’s intervention, temporary occupation and subsequent expropriation of 51% of the energy corporation’s capital stock.
- An Amsterdam-seated ICC arbitration and subsequent litigation proceedings involving a complex, multi-jurisdictional and multimillion dollar claim brought by a pharma company over manufacture and supply obligations and transfer of intellectual property involving critical products, resulting from breaches of a Dutch law-governed agreement.
- A London-seated ICC arbitration between Dubai-based and Kuwait oil and gas companies’ parties to an English law-governed joint venture for the exploration and exploitation of an oil block in Iraq, over the allocation of the participating interests of an outgoing energy company previously party to the joint venture.
- An UNCITRAL investor-State arbitration administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a multimillion dollar dispute between a Saudi investor and a Middle East state under the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Investment Agreement and a Bilateral Investment Treaty in connection with alleged violations of guaranteed tariffs in a large steel project.
- An investigation carried out by U.S. regulatory bodies in connection with the failure by the directors of a leading financial services company to disclose certain criminal and regulatory proceedings involving securities and investments law breaches in annual forms to be filed with the regulators.
- An UNCITRAL bi-lingual investor-State arbitration administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a multimillion dollar dispute brought under the Investment Chapter of a Free Trade Agreement by U.S. investors in a Latin American financial institution subjected to a series of Government measures during a banking and financial crisis.
- A London-seated LCIA arbitration involving two pharmaceutical giants in connection with a multimillion dollar dispute over the sublicensing of intellectual property of a critical cancer treatment system under an English law-governed pharma licence agreement.
- An advisory public international law matter regarding a State-to-State dispute before the ICJ and an UNCLOS tribunal in connection with a planned discharge of radioactive water into the ocean with potential impact on the environment and neighbouring countries
- Advised a major Brazilian electric utilities company in relation to a contractual and public international law dispute with its international counterparty to a concession contract for the joint construction and operation of a large hydroelectric power station in a shared river as provided for in a Bilateral Treaty between Brazil and a neighbouring country.
- Advised former Afghan judges and human rights activists living in hiding in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, who faced risk of death and serious harm because of their links to the UK and US missions in Afghanistan, in connection with their relocation and resettlement in the UK under international human rights, refugee and English immigration law.