Dr Andrés E. Alvarado-Garzón
Andrés is a Foreign Lawyer in the firm’s dispute resolution practice in Frankfurt am Main.
He specialises in investor-state investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration and public international law. Andrés regularly acts and advises both sovereign states and investors in investment treaty disputes and enforcement proceedings and represents clients in complex cross-border international commercial disputes. He has experience of arbitrations conducted under a range of different rules including ICSID, ICC, SCC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- the Mongolian Government in WM Mining Company, LLC v. Mongolia, ICSID Case No. ARB/21/8;
- a state-owned enterprise in PCA proceedings against a central Asian country on a gas-related investment dispute under the ECT and a bilateral investment treaty
- a German oil & gas group of companies in two ICC commercial arbitration proceedings against a state-owned enterprise based on gas transportation-related contracts;
- a major German energy holding company against an Asian state in multi-billion-dollar arbitration proceedings under the ECT and the UNCITRAL Rules;
- a major German energy holding company against an Asian state in multi-billion-dollar arbitration proceedings under a BIT and the HKIAC Rules;
- a Georgian port operator in an SCC arbitration against a UAE company in connection with a development contract;
- an Asian state in a multi-million-dollar contract-based investment dispute governed by the UNCITRAL Rules;
- a Central Asian state against investors in their attempt to enforce a multi-million dollar ECT award in several jurisdictions around the globe
- a consortium of investors in an airport project on potential investment treaty and commercial arbitrations against a central European state
- a major French energy company on the implementation of a large renewable energy investment project in Central Asia
- a German Oil & Gas company on a potential contractual dispute against an African State-owned enterprise
Publications
- ‘Colombia’ in Bungenberg M (ed) International Subsidies: A Handbook (Beck/Nomos/Hart 2026)
- ‘Gender and Investment Awards’ in Fach Gómez K and Titi C (eds) The Award in International Investment Arbitration (OUP 2024)
- ‘Recognition and Enforcement of ICSID Convention Awards’ in Fach Gómez K and Titi C (eds) The Award in International Investment Arbitration (OUP 2024)
- Environmental Counterclaims in Investment Arbitration: Deconstructing the Requirements of Jurisdiction, Connection and Cause of Action (Springer 2023)
- 'From State-Controlled Enterprises to Investment Screening: Paving the Way for Stricter Rules on Foreign Investment’ in Chaisse J, Górski J and Sejko (eds) Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination (Springer 2022)
- ‘Article 8.17 CETA’ in Bungenberg M and Reinisch A (eds) CETA Investment Law: Article-by-Article Commentary (Beck/Nomos/Hart 2022)
- ‘International Arbitration and Cross-Border Insolvency – Friends or Foes? Revisiting the Role of Arbitration in Resolving Cross-border Insolvency Disputes’ (2021) 12(4) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 693
- ‘Compensation with a Chess Clock? The Interaction of Statutes of Limitation with the Calculation of Damages in Investment Arbitration’ in Sachs LE, Johnson L and Coleman J (eds) Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2019 (Oxford University Press 2021)
- ‘From State-Controlled Enterprises to Investment Screening: Paving the Way for Stricter Rules on Foreign Investment’ (2020) 6 Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) <https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2775>
- ‘One Size Fits All? Transparency in Investment and Commercial Arbitration’ in Meškić Z and others (eds) Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law 2019 (Springer 2020)
- ‘Designing a Multilateral Investment Court: Blueprints for a New Route in Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ (2019) 22(3) Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien (ZEuS) 477
Sectors
Background
Andrés studied law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia), obtained his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the Europa-Institut of Saarland University (Germany) and a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) (summa cum laude) from Saarland University (Germany). Andrés is admitted to practise law in England & Wales, and Colombia.
Before joining Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Frankfurt office, Andrés worked as a research fellow at Saarland University and was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. He interned at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) as well as at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
He regularly publishes on topics in relation to international arbitration and investor-State investment disputes. He speaks Spanish, English, and has working knowledge of German and French. Andrés has served as Assistant Editor (Investment Arbitration) at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog since 2024 and is a member of the review board of the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot.
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