Fernando Meléndez
Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera AbogadosAt Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera Abogados, the arbitration team is engaged by private companies and public entities to handle various disputes ranging from shareholder conflicts to construction, transportation and retail-related disputes. The group is jointly led by specialist Fernando Meléndez and Edwin Pezo, who concentrates on complex international arbitration proceedings and telecoms-sector cases. Senior associate Claudia Quispe focuses on construction disputes, while associate Raul Zuñiga advises on shareholder disputes.
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‘They have good knowledge of procedural and arbitration law and are great strategists in the litigation they handle.'
‘Friendly, understanding, astute, open to listening to the opinions of others.'
Key clients
- Superintendencia de Banco, Seguros y AFP
- Servicio de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Lima
- China Harbour Engineering Company
- KS Depor
Work highlights
- Representing Superintendicia de Banco, Seguros y AFP in a complex dispute against a contractor in parallel arbitration and judicial proceedings.
- Represented KS Depor in an arbitration proceeding against a Peruvian soccer player.
- Represented a family in an arbitration initiated to revise the appraisal of a property.
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Practice head
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Fernando Melendez Fernandez, Edwin Pezo Arevalo