Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Gaela Gehring Flores is Co-Chair of Hughes Hubbard's International Arbitration practice group in the Washington, D.C., office.

Gaela has over 25 years of experience focused on representing both multinational corporations and sovereign states in international commercial and investment arbitrations. She has handled over 60 high-stakes international disputes before some of the best-known investment treaty arbitrations administered by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as well as before private international commercial tribunals in arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Gaela also demonstrates a commitment to pro bono services through her work with immigrant and undocumented communities.

Gaela advises clients in a variety of disputes in such fields as energy, intellectual property and artificial intelligence, natural resources, construction, government contracts, and transportation. She also advises clients on arbitral award enforcement, effective contractual dispute resolution clauses, dispute prevention, and strategy, and public international law issues, including discovery and foreign sovereign immunity, in international proceedings. Gaela’s practice is strengthened by her experience, native Spanish skills and bicultural background.

Gaela is recognized as a leading practitioner of international arbitration in Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Chambers USA, Global Arbitration Review, The Legal 500, Latin Lawyer 250, The Am Law 200, Euromoney, along with many others.

French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Co-Chair, District of Columbia Bar Inter-American Legal Affairs Committee. Fellow and Faculty, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). International Arbitrator Panel, International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Advisory Board Member, The Wilson Center Latin America Program. Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, Guidelines Review Committee. Co-Host, “The Tea on International Arbitration,” a podcast presented by the D.C. Bar International Law Community.

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., summa cum laude