Luisa F. Gutierrez Quintero

• Counsel to an owner in a AAA arbitration arising out of the operation of a wind farm in West Texas involving claims of gross negligence and hundreds of millions in dispute
  
• Counsel to a venture capital firm in a dispute between LLC members regarding required deal contributions before the Delaware Court of Chancery
  
• Counsel to an owner in dispute related to the design of a data center in Germany before the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York
• Representing a Colombian oil State-owned company in an international ICC commercial arbitration against U.S. contractor concerning an EPC contract for the upgrade of an oil refinery in the port city of Cartagena. The ICC tribunal reached a unanimous decision in the client’s favor, ordering the contractor to pay more than $1 billion in damages, plus interest gains
• Counsel to one of the world's biggest technology multinationals, handling cutting-edge issues in the Americas and EMEA jurisdictions in matters involving complex international contract disputes, compliance obligations in privacy and defamation, IA, consumer law, intermediary liability, hate speech, defamation, intellectual property, unfair competition, elections, and e-commerce.*
• Counsel to one of the biggest technology multinationals for the company’s global regulatory investigations before unfair competition, corporate, data protection authorities and other compliance matters in the Americas and EMEA jurisdictions.*
• Successfully advised British investors in a multi-billion-dollar ICSID arbitration pertaining to an iron ore project in Uruguay, arising under the UK-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty
• Advised a French investor in a case initiated according to the rules of the Paris Chamber of International Arbitration (PCIA) related to a concession contract for the construction and operation of a toll road in Peru.
• Representing a Singapore-based investor, in a PCA international arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules arising out of a dispute involving a risk-service oil contract with Ecuador
• Advising U.S. oil company in PCA arbitration against Ecuador, arising out of the company’s historical activities under oil concession contracts, under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty
• Representing a mining company in PCA contractual and treaty-based arbitrations against Peru, concerning a copper mining project and poly-metallic smelting operation, brought under the U.S.-Peru Bilateral Investment Treaty
• Representing Argentinian company in an ICSID arbitration concerning the construction and operation of an airport located in Peru, brought under the Argentina-Peru Bilateral Investment Treaty
• Advised a Colombia-owned road concessionaire in a contractual ICSID arbitration against Peru related to an infrastructure toll project on a mountain road that was cancelled following the intervention by the State’s former president
• Advised a confidential client in the defense industry to identify, assess, prevent, mitigate, and remedy actual and potential international U.S. policy and international public law impacts associated with high-risk products and services, including those in conflict-affected areas
• Advised a confidential State client with respect to public international law implications and potential claims brought by a different State regarding the construction of a nuclear power facility
• Represented claimant The Renco Group in a UNCITRAL Arbitration against Peru brought under the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement. The dispute concerns a copper mining project and poly-metallic smelting operation.

Luisa focuses on commercial and construction disputes. Luisa has extensive experience representing and counseling multinational companies in the construction, oil and gas, energy, and technology industries in high-stakes and complex litigations in courts throughout the world, as well as in commercial and state-investor international arbitration matters. Luisa is trained in both civil and common law and is admitted to practice in Colombia, Texas, New York and California. She is fluent in Spanish and English. 

Luisa has advised clients in several commercial arbitrations under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), among other arbitration rules. In addition, she has represented clients in investor-state arbitrations under the rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the ICSID Additional Facility, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), among other rules.

In addition to international arbitration matters, Luisa also has experience advising multinational corporations in high-stake and complex domestic and international litigations and regulatory matters across the U.S., EMEA and LATAM jurisdictions, working on cases before some of the highest courts in those regions.