Arbitration Committee
Arbitration Committee
The British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC) is an independent, not-for-profit institution dedicated to meeting the dispute resolution needs of the international business community. In line with Annex D of the 2021 BVI IAC Arbitration Rules, the Centre constituted its new Arbitration Committee on 1 July 2025.
This Committee is central to the effective operation of the BVI IAC. Its responsibilities include recommending arbitrators for appointment, deciding challenges to arbitrators, considering requests for joinder and consolidation, and overseeing the consistent application of the 2021 Rules.
The Committee brings together leading arbitration practitioners with broad regional and professional experience. The members are:
- Angeline Welsh (President)
- Michael Black KC (Vice President)
- Christian Albanesi (Vice President)
- Conway Blake
- Loretta Malintoppi
- Mark Beeley
- Nicola Berry
- Kabir Duggal
- Arabella di Iorio
Together, they reflect the global nature of the Centre’s work and the commitment to diversity, expertise, and integrity in the administration of international arbitration.
Angeline Welsh
PRESIDENT
Recognised as a leader in the field of international arbitration, Angeline also has extensive experience in handling commercial, public, constitutional and human rights law cases. She regularly conducts substantial advocacy before both commercial and investment treaty arbitral tribunals, the English Courts, BVI and the Belize courts. She has appeared before final appellate courts; the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Angeline combines a fierce intellect and commercial instinct with outstanding communication and collaboration skills. She has been described in the directories as “An exceptional barrister – she is clever, easy to work with and her attention to detail is second to none. She excels in difficult cross-examinations”; as “intelligent” and “commercial” with “incredible knowledge” and “deep experience in international arbitration”; and as “exceptionally user-friendly” and “an excellent team player”. Angeline has particular expertise in international arbitration. She has advised on, and appeared in, some of the leading arbitration cases in the English jurisdiction and elsewhere. In 2023, Angeline was recognized as one of GAR’s 45 leading arbitration practitioners globally under the age of 45. She was also shortlisted for International Arbitration Silk of the year by Legal 500 (her first year in silk). In 2021, she was named as International Arbitration Junior of the Year by Chambers and Partners. As an arbitrator, Angeline has sat either as sole, co- or presiding arbitrator in around 40 matters.
Prior to being called to the bars of England and Wales, Belize and the British Virgin Islands, Angeline was Counsel and Solicitor Advocate with a major international law firm. As a result, she has a unique insight of the pressures and demands on instructing solicitors as well as significant experience of leading teams and strategy for large litigation cases. She has litigated a broad range of commercial disputes, including those in the energy, telecoms, financial, construction, manufacturing and shipping sectors, before the English courts, courts in the commonwealth and arbitral tribunals under the LCIA, HKIAC, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, SIAC and BVI IAC rules.
Christian Albanesi
VICE-PRESIDENT
Christian Albanesi is a partner of Linklaters in Washington D.C., and Head of the Latin America arbitration practice. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in some of the most complex arbitrations in Latin America under the auspices of the ICC, ICSID, LCIA or ad hoc arbitration proceedings.
Before joining Linklaters, Christian was the Managing Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Counsel in charge of more than 500 Latin American arbitrations from filing through scrutiny and notification of awards. Previously, he practised for three years in the dispute resolution group of a leading firm in Argentina. Christian is a member of the Paris Bar and the Buenos Aires Bar, and Special Legal Consultant in the DC Bar.
Christian has been consistently recognised by Chambers & Partners in the category of International Counsel in International Arbitration for Latin America-wide since 2021 and as a “Thought Global Leader” by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration since 2022.
H.E. Justice Michael Black KC
VICE-PRESIDENT
H.E. Justice Michael Black KC has been an arbitration lawyer for nearly 50 years. He now balances his time between sitting as independent Chartered Arbitrator and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Judge in charge of the Digital Economy Court. Michael was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1995 and sat as Deputy Judge in the (then) Queen’s Bench Division and Technology and Construction Court. As counsel he regularly appeared in the courts of Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and Bermuda as well as the Privy Council. An international expert in civil procedure, he sat on Lord Woolf’s Committee when it reformed English civil procedure. He was the principal draughtsman of the Rules of the DIFC Courts and DIFC Arbitration Law. He has been consulted on civil procedure, arbitration laws and arbitration rules in BVI, The Bahamas, The Cayman Islands, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Abu Dhabi and Oman amongst other places. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. Michael’s arbitral practice, formerly as counsel and now as arbitrator, has taken him to places as disparate as the Solomon Islands and Las Vegas and regularly to the major centres of Hong Kong, Singapore, New Delhi, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Paris, Geneva, London and New York both under the rules of most major institutions as well as ad hoc. He has experience in the fields of Digital Assets, Oil & Gas, Insurance & Reinsurance, Shareholder, Joint Venture and Post M&A Disputes, Trust Arbitration, Hotel Management and Engineering and Construction.
Mark Beeley
Mark leads Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s global international arbitration practice group, as well as serving as London Office Leader. He acts as advocate and counsel whether in international arbitrations (both commercial and investor-state) or in litigation in the English and DIFC courts – as well as sitting as arbitrator (including as chair and sole).
Originally called to the English Bar and now practicing as a solicitor-advocate, he has particularly deep experience and interest in energy disputes, but also regularly acts in construction, technology, insurance, shareholder and white-collar/civil fraud matters (including advising on sanctions and export controls). He previously practiced in Dubai as a Registered Foreign Lawyer, and is recognised in the leading directories for arbitration, litigation and natural resources disputes (including in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, GAR and Who’s Who).
He recently led the AIEN Model Form Revision sub-committee focusing on the dispute resolution aspects of the model form JOA and serves as a member of the ICC’s Commission on Arbitration & ADR, as well as on the ICC UK’s Arbitration & ADR Committee.
Nicola Berry
Nicola is an attorney-at-law, arbitrator and the principal of Berrys Attorneys & Arbitrators, Barbados, who has been in practice for over 22 years. Prior to launching Berrys in 2021, Nicola was a partner in a well-established law firm in Barbados. She provides advice to local, regional and international clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters including arbitration, corporate finance, financial regulation, securities, mergers and acquisitions, merger control, energy regulation (including renewable energy), insurance, corporate restructuring, project financing, contract negotiation and emerging practice areas.
At the outset of her career, she practiced in the litigation and international law divisions of the Jamaica Attorney General’s Chambers.
Nicola is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Caribbean Branch) and a member of their approved teaching faculty. She serves as an arbitrator on the Arbitration Commission of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. and is on the arbitration panel of the Arbitration and Mediation Court of the Caribbean (Barbados).
Nicola organizes the Berrys International Commercial Arbitration Moot which was launched in 2024 and which is currently hosted at the Faculty of Law, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
Dr. Conway Blake
Conway Blake is a partner in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, based in London.
He regularly represents corporate and sovereign clients in a range of contentious matters, particularly in investor-state arbitration, public international law disputes and commercial arbitrations governed by various substantive laws and conducted under the major arbitral rules (LCIA, ICC, PCA, UNCITRAL). He also sits as arbitrator in international arbitral proceedings.
Dr. Blake has litigated a broad range of commercial disputes, including those in the energy, telecoms, pharmaceutical, hospitality and financial services sectors, before the English courts and courts in the Commonwealth Caribbean. He also has substantial expertise in public international law, and appears as advocate in public international law disputes before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and other supra-national tribunals.
His expertise in international arbitration and public international law has been recognised in various directories, including in Chambers & Partners where he has been described as “a real star” and “a fantastic lawyer and advocate.” He is also recommended byThe Legal 500 where clients describe him as “thoroughly commercial” and has been commended for his “exceptional legal knowledge, attention to detail, and ability to think outside the box.”
Dr. Blake is admitted as a Solicitor Advocate in England & Wales. He is also called to the bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Dr. Kabir Duggal
Arabella di Iorio
Loretta Malintoppi
Loretta Malintoppi is an independent arbitrator with 39 Essex Chambers, based in Singapore.
Loretta is dually qualified (Paris and Rome Bars) and specializes in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and public international law. She sits as arbitrator in proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, SCC, SIAC, LCIA and DIAC.
Loretta also appears as counsel and advocate in State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice and in ad hoc arbitrations. She is a past member and Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She currently sits on the Governing Board of ICCA and is a vice-President of ICCA until April 2024. Loretta was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Chairman of the World Bank. She is also a member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, of the Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (“CAM”), of the Arbitration Committee of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Center (“BVI IAC”) and the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (“KCAB International”).
Loretta is one of the co-authors of the second edition of The ICSID Convention – A Commentary published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and one of the editors/authors of the 3d edition published in 2022. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, editor of the International Litigation in Practice Series, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Singapore Arbitration Journal.
Apart from her native Italian, Loretta is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Funke Adekoya
MEMBER
Funke Adekoya is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who practices as an independent arbitrator and litigation consultant in Lagos Nigeria. She is a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a past Vice President and current Governing Board Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. She has expertise in resolving disputes in the energy and natural resources, construction and commercial contract sectors and is ranked in Chambers Global and in Who’s Who Legal Arbitration. She has been appointed as sole, party appointed and chair of the panel in disputes administered by the ICC and the LCIA and is also listed on the Chairman’s Panel of Arbitrators at ICSID from where she has been appointed as arbitrator and annulment committee member in investment contract and BIT disputes. She is also listed on the panels of many other international arbitration institutions and is currently a member of the ICC Nigeria National Committee and the ICC Africa Commission. LinkedIn Profile
Dr. Jane Fedotova
MEMBER
Dr. Jane (Jevgenija) Fedotova, being a solicitor with higher rights of audience qualified in both common law and civil jurisdictions, is an Associate in the Litigation & Restructuring Department of Conyers Dill & Pearman in the British Virgin Islands and an associate lecturer at the Queen Mary University London where she teaches investment arbitration course being part of the LLM online programme. Jane’s academic interests focus on urgent interim measures, she has successfully defended her thesis entitled: “The Concept of the Emergency Arbitrator: Is It a Novelty? Meaning of “Emergency”, Legal Framework, Standards and Enforcement of the Emergency Relief” and was awarded the Queen Mary University of London degree of PhD (Doctor of Philosophy). Her practice in the BVI covers a wide range of commercial, insolvency and arbitration matters often involving issues pertaining to asset tracing. Jane has advised clients arbitrating under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, BVI IAC and CIETAC Rules. Jane often advises clients on court interim measures, including appointment of receivers, in support of on-going complex and high value arbitration proceedings and foreign litigation, and assist clients with enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments in the BVI. Prior to joining Conyers, Jane practiced law in London in a major international law firm and was seconded to serve as counsel for the London Court of International Arbitration. Jane’s recent arbitration experience includes acting for a company in the BVI IAC multimillion arbitration relating to a construction dispute; acting for a BVI company in relation to an application seeking appointment of liquidators based on unpaid multimillion LCIA arbitration award; and obtaining a mandatory injunction order to appoint a director over BVI companies and provide documents for inspection in support of the LCIA multi-million arbitration relating inter alia to a default under a loan agreement and a major shareholders’ fallout. Jane often speaks at the conferences and writes articles on arbitration matters. Her recent public speaking engagements and articles covered issues arising in liquidation matters that raise complex issues of interrelationship of arbitration and insolvency proceedings, and issues arising at the stage of enforcement of investment treaty awards. Jane completed her undergraduate degree in law at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and obtained LLM degree at the University College London. Jane is a member of the BVI Arbitration Group, a member of the executive committee of RCAN and is a founding member of the BVI Crypto Legal Club. Jane has been recognised in the 2021 edition of Legal 500 and in the 2020 edition (and 2019) of Global Restructuring Review 100.
Dr. Karim Youssef
MEMBER
Dr. Karim A. Youssef is founder of Youssef & Partners, a Global Arbitration Review (GAR) 100 law firm, and a regional leader in dispute resolution. Karim leads the international arbitration and international law practices at the Firm. His practice focuses on commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, complex high-value disputes, and international law, and is world-renowned in these fields. Karim represents key Egyptian and regional clients and some of the world’s most significant global corporations in high-profile local, regional, and purely international disputes. His expertise in large-value and complex claims is unmatched among MENA practitioners: Karim has featured and continues to feature as counsel or arbitrator in some of the highest-profile and largest commercial and investment treaty claims in the region. He also spends part of his time giving strategic advice to some of the region’s most significant corporations across a wide array of key industries and sectors; and heads the firm’s high net-worth individuals’ practice. Karim has received some of the highest distinctions by peers and clients. Among others, he has been described as “a leading light in international arbitration” (Legal 500, 2018) and “the number one arbitration lawyer in Egypt” (Chambers Global Guide, 2021). He has an impressive, region-spanning practice which sees him represent international companies in investment treaty disputes and other arbitration claims against state entities. With expertise in international law, he frequently represents clients in multibillion-dollar arbitrations seated around the world. He has further been praised for his “excellent analytical skills” and described as a “leading counsel in the MENA region” (Who’s Who Legal, 2019).
Katharine Menendez de la Cuesta
MEMBER
Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta is a Miami-based Partner with the law firm Holland & Knight LLP who handles international disputes. Clients rely on her experience to represent them in international arbitration proceedings in English and Spanish, and in litigation matters before U.S. federal and state courts in New York and Florida. Ms. Menéndez has handled international arbitrations applying the laws of New York, Florida, Illinois, Spain, France, U.K., Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Guatemala, among other jurisdictions, and administered by the main arbitral institutions, such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She has acted as Administrative Secretary of arbitral tribunals, and was a representative for North America of the ICC’s Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) for its 2019-2021 mandate. Her background includes practicing international arbitration and litigation at a leading Spanish law firm for several years. She remains licensed in Spain, where she argued cases before Spanish courts concerning commercial matters. She is admitted to practice in Florida, New York and Spain. Ms. Menéndez has lectured on advocacy and legal skills at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), Universidad Europea in Madrid, University of Miami School of Law and Florida International University (FIU), as well as presented seminars about advocacy skills in Latin America.
Loretta Malintoppi
MEMBER
Loretta Malintoppi is an independent arbitrator with 39 Essex Chambers, based in Singapore. Loretta is dually qualified (Paris and Rome Bars) and specializes in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and public international law. She sits as arbitrator in proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, SCC, SIAC, LCIA and DIAC. Loretta also appears as counsel and advocate in State-to-State disputes before the International Court of Justice and in ad hoc arbitrations. She is a past member and a Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She currently sits on the Governing Board of ICCA and has been appointed a vice-President of ICCA as of April 2022. Loretta was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Chairman of the World Bank. She is also a member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, of the Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (“CAM”), of the Arbitration Committee of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Center (“BVI IAC”) and the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (“KCAB International”). Loretta is one of the co-authors of the second edition of The ICSID Convention – A Commentary published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and one of the editors/authors of the 3d edition due to be published in the course of 2022. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, editor of the International Litigation in Practice Series, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of World Investment and Trade. Apart from her native Italian, Loretta is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Maria Irene Perruccio
MEMBER
Maria Irene is a double qualified lawyer (in Milan, Italy and Paris, France), and she currently holds the position of Head of International Affairs for Europe and Americas of Webuild S.p.A. (former Salini Impregilo S.p.A.). She previously worked as Deputy Counsel of the Swiss-Italian Team of the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Before that, she was working in the International Arbitration department of White&Case LLP, in Paris, where she specialized in international arbitration and litigation in the areas of energy (mainly oil & gas) and construction. She regularly speaks at conferences on construction contracts and construction disputes matters, and regularly lectures at Paris I University and Turin University. She graduated in law&economics at Bocconi University and specialized in international litigation; she also spent one semester as Erasmus student in Paris XII. She hold a master degree from Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (Madrid, Spain), and the first level certification at the Ecole de Droit International Comparé (in Strasbourg). She participated as member of the Bocconi team and oralist in the C Vis Moot in 2011, and supports the competition since then, having served as coach and arbitrator both in Vienna and in a number of Pre-Moots afterwards. She is co-founder and vice-president of YPCP (Young Practitioners of Construction in Paris), co-founder and former co-chair of AIA-ArbIt-below40 (the Italian below-40 association for arbitration), member of the In-House focus group of ICC YAF, member of Young ICCA, ICDR Y&I, and PVYAP.
Peter Ferrer
MEMBER
Peter Ferrer is co-head of Harneys global Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring team. Peter was called to the English Bar in 1998 and practiced at Quadrant Chambers, London from 1999 to 2016. He was called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands in 2016. He has extensive experience of acting as counsel under a variety of arbitral rules including BVI IAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA and UNCITRAL. Peter acts on behalf of institutions, companies, corporate entities and high net worth individuals. His experience includes shareholder actions, fraud claims, hedge fund disputes, crypto disputes, insolvency and restructuring matters. He has extensive experience in arbitration enforcement proceedings including tracing actions in multiple jurisdictions. While at the English Bar he appeared at every level including the English Court of Appeal and the United Kingdom Supreme Court in relation to arbitration appeals. He has been involved some of the leading British Virgin Islands cases involving arbitration. He is consistently recommended in the Legal Directories as being a leading individual and described as “capable and commercially minded”. He sits on the BVI Commercial Court Users committee, the BVI Civil Procedure Rules Steering Committee and acts as the CIArb BVI Chapter Vice Chair. Peter is fluent in German, Polish and Italian.
Sherlin Tung
MEMBER
Sherlin is a partner in the international arbitration and litigation team based in Withers’ Hong Kong office. She is a specialist in cross-border corporate and commercial disputes (with a particular focus on joint-venture and shareholder disputes, pharmaceutical disputes, commodities disputes, and general commercial disputes), international commercial arbitration, international contracts (notably the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods “CISG”), and multi-jurisdiction litigations. Sherlin acts as counsel, sits as an arbitrator, and also acts as an expert on international arbitration procedures. With over a dozen years of experience, Sherlin has advised clients worldwide, specifically in the Americas, Europe, and APAC region, on all phases and aspects of international arbitrations and cross-border litigations. Prior to joining Withers, Sherlin worked with a leading international law firm in its Hong Kong office where she was a member of the international disputes practice group. She started her international disputes career by working with a leading independent arbitrator, Dr. Pierre A. Karrer, where she was based in Switzerland and acted as tribunal secretary for a significant number of complex, international commercial disputes. She also assisted Dr. Karrer with expert legal opinions. Thereafter, Sherlin worked for the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration where she managed over 300 international arbitration matters in both Hong Kong and New York, the latter of which she was a founding member of the case management office. Sherlin also worked in-house with a publicly listed international conglomerate where she was the lead international legal counsel in the group’s various M&A transactions as well as for their international litigation and arbitration disputes. Sherlin regularly speaks in conferences as well as gives lectures and trainings worldwide on international arbitration, trade law, and cross-border disputes. She is a strong advocate of international arbitration and trade law and she constantly gives back to the community. Amongst her various roles in the international arbitration community, Sherlin is the Deputy Director of the Vis East Moot Foundation, a member of the Willem C. Vis Moot Board of Directors, and President of the Moot Alumni Association. She is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Hong Kong and is qualified to practice law in New York and California. Sherlin is native in Mandarin Chinese and English and is proficient in Spanish and conversational in German (A2).
Tana'Ania Small Davis KC
MEMBER
Tana’ania is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica. She has over twenty five (25) years in practice having been admitted in Jamaica, British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Anguilla. Tana’ania main practice areas are Commercial Litigation, Insolvency and International and Domestic Arbitration. She has considerable experience in preparing and conducting complex multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration in the areas of shareholders’ disputes, breach of contracts, and asset tracing and recovery which often involves urgent interim relief by way of freezing orders, orders for disclosure of documents and information, search and seizure orders and injunctions. Tana’ania is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and a member of the Bar Associations of Jamaica, Antigua and Anguilla and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (BVI) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL), the world-wide federation of national associations for accountants and lawyers who specialise in turnaround and insolvency. She is a partner at Livingston, Alexander & Levy, Attorneys-at Law in Kingston Jamaica, the oldest law firm in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Timur Aitkulov
MEMBER
Timur was a partner of Clifford Chance for about 15 years, where he headed the dispute resolution practice of the Moscow office. He specializes in international arbitration, domestic and cross-border litigation, administrative proceedings and white-collar criminal matters. For more than 25 years he has been representing clients in the Russian courts at all levels, including before the Russian Supreme Court and Constitutional Court, and in international commercial arbitrations (ICAC at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, SCC, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules). Timur has acted as counsel/arbitrator in international arbitral proceedings and in litigation in the areas of M&A, construction, shipbuilding, oil and gas, nuclear energy, mining, financial services, as well as in IP disputes. Timur has extensive experience handling construction, corporate, antitrust and bankruptcy disputes, and in disputes in the oil and gas, energy, mining, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property and financial sectors. Timur is recognized as one the leading Dispute Resolution lawyers in Russia by the international legal directories Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and Legal 500. Timur is a Member of the Moscow Bar; Member of the Board of the Russian Arbitration Association (RAA); Member of the Presidium of the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration; Member of BVI IAC Arbitration Committee; Member of the SIAC Users Council; Member of ICC Russia; Member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration (2015 – 2021).
Victor Bonnin Reynes
MEMBER
Victor Bonnin is an arbitration lawyer qualified in Spain and a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. Additionally, he also holds a law degree on Swiss law and a Master in Business Law from the University of Geneva. Currently, Victor is the Secretary General of the Spanish Club of Arbitration. Victor is currently sitting as arbitrator. He has acted in more than 35 cases as coarbitrator, chair or sole arbitrator under the rules of institutions such as the ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, Swiss Center, the Madrid Court of Arbitration, the Spanish Court of arbitration, Amcham Peru, etc. with seat in Madrid, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, London, Hong Kong, Casablanca, or Lima and conducted in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese languages. Before founding his own arbitration practice, Victor was a senior associate of the Madrid and London offices of Allen & Overy. There, he represented foreign investors in several investment proceedings in the renewable sector. Previously, Victor was a senior associate at the arbitration department of the Spanish law firm, Garrigues. During that period, he worked at the New York office of Skadden Arps as visiting attorney. He has a vast experience in commercial, investment and sports arbitration in ad hoc and institutional arbitral proceedings. He has been listed in international rankings such as Chambers: Most in Demand Arbitrators (2020 to 2022), and Who’s Who Under 45 Future Arbitration Leaders and Who’s Who Global. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 he has also been ranked in and in League: Spain’s Best Arbitrators. He has also written numerous articles on arbitration law, participates frequently in arbitration congresses and seminars as speaker and collaborates with universities in arbitration related courses. In 2020 he has co-coordinated the Spanish Arbitration Handbook (Memento Lefebvre).
