Mayer Brown shows strength in commercial and investment arbitration where the Parisian team often joins forces with the firm’s other international offices to handle European, Latin American, Middle Eastern and African related cases. The team manages large disputes spanning various industry areas such as construction, infrastructure, mining and energy, acting mostly for companies but also for a number of state entities (Gambia, India). It has recently been entrusted with a new high-profile mandate that is raising major intra EU arbitration rules issues. Practice head Dany Khayat is the key name, with Alejandro López Ortiz and José Caicedo being two other key members. Counsel Isabela Lacreta provides support.
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‘Mayer's international disputes team, and in particular Alejandro López Ortiz and his team, is simply exceptional in the details, not only legal, but also technical. From the details, they are able to extract an impeccable and comprehensive legal strategy, even on the broadest and most complex issues.'
‘Alejandro López Ortiz knows how to manage a case and its strategy, listens to the client and gets into the details.'
Key clients
- Djamel Ben Ferha
- D.S. Construction FZCO
Work highlights
Representing Veolia Propreté in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Italy under the Energy Charter Treaty concerning two waste treatment and electricity production concessions in Tuscany and Calabria.
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Practice head
Dany Khayat
Other key lawyers
Alejandro López Ortiz; José Caicedo; Isabela Lacreta