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published SEPTEMBER 05, 2011
Dechert promotes José Manuel García Represa to national partner in International Arbitration group

José Manuel García Represa, a Spanish national based in Dechert’s Paris office, focuses his practice on international investment and commercial arbitration, particularly on cases involving Latin America and Spain. Since joining Dechert as a senior associate in 2008, Mr. García Represa has been a major contributor to the development of the firm’s Latin American practice, which is headed by Eduardo Silva Romero. Mr. García Represa played a central role in some 10 investment treaty arbitrations in Latin America since 2008 on behalf of both host sovereign states (such as Ecuador and Bolivia) and investors. On the commercial side, he was a key contributor in Dechert’s successful representation of France Telecom in its multibillion dollar ICC arbitration against Egyptian company Orascom Telecom.
Mr. García Represa has extensive experience in cases involving multiple jurisdictions and procedural rules and has appeared before ICC, ICSID and ad hoc-UNCITRAL arbitral tribunals. He has handled cases for governments as well as private clients/investors in a variety of industries, including oil and gas (upstream and midstream), mining, telecommunications, auto-parts distribution, airport management/construction, civil engineering, shareholder and post-M&A purchase price adjustment disputes, retail and fashion design. In addition, he has lectured on international commercial and investment arbitration in Europe and Latin America.
A graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid (2000) and the Sorbonne University of Paris I (2000), Mr. García Represa also holds a DESS in International Commercial Law from the Sorbonne University of Paris I (2001, La Caixa Scholar) and an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York (2003, Fulbright Scholar), where he received the Parker School Certificate in International Law. Mr. García Represa is admitted to the Madrid, Paris and New York Bars. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French.


 




 


 


 
 
 

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