Winston & Strawn LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP‘s international arbitration practice handles complex, high-profile, international disputes. Members of the team regularly advise on numerous arbitrations in Latin America, and boasts extensive investment state experience, representing the Government of Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Haiti, and Ecuador. Demonstrating its expertise in the energy sector, the team has notably recently advised on a high-profile Energy Charter Treaty dispute against the Republic of Italy, as well as on a complex arbitration linked to a solar power plant.  In Chicago, Ricardo Ugarte is skilled in this area, and uses his multilingual capabilities to work on international arbitrations in English, Italian, French, and Spanish. In Miami, Gustavo Membiela handles commercial arbitrations internationally, representing consumer product companies, financial institutions and and corporations, and investors, with particular knowledge of Latin America seated arbitrations, while New York-based Marcelo Blackburn has complementary expertise of complex litigation and government investigations.