Aloysius Llamzon Wins Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for Best International Arbitration Article

NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2017 — King & Spalding senior associate Aloysius (Louie) Llamzon has won the prestigious 2017 Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for the best article in the field of international arbitration.

Llamzon won the prize along with his co-author, Anthony Sinclair, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, for their article, “Investor Wrongdoing in Investment Arbitration: Standards Governing Issues of Corruption, Fraud, Misrepresentation and Other Investor Conduct.”

The International Arbitration Club of New York has awarded the prize annually for the last six years in honor of the late professors Hans Smit and Andreas Lowenfeld. Selection is based on originality, quality, significance and scholarship, among other factors, and winners receive a $2,500 honorarium.

“This article takes the varied concepts of corruption, fraud and illegality, as well as their respective burdens of proof, and distills guiding principles for tribunals around the world to consider in investigations of investor wrongdoing,” said Baker & McKenzie of counsel Lawrence Newman, who presented Llamzon and Sinclair with the award on Jan. 27. “It is an important contribution to the field of international investment arbitration.”

Llamzon is a member of King & Spalding’s International Arbitration practice and represents corporate and sovereign clients in commercial, investment, and inter-State arbitrations. He has appeared before tribunals under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, and SIAC rules in cases seated throughout the world, involving natural resources, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, and shareholder disputes in Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Prior to joining King & Spalding, Llamzon was senior legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Peace Palace, The Hague.

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