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Sophia Sepulveda Harms is an international arbitration associate in King & Spalding's Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group. Her practice focuses on complex international dispute resolution, including large-scale commercial, investor-state, construction, and recognition and enforcement disputes. Sophia has experience representing clients in the oil and gas, telecommunications, and infrastructure industries, related to investments and commercial relationships in regions across the globe. 

Before joining King & Spalding, Sophia graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center and joined the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Sophia served as the Chief Notes & Comments Editor for Board 58 of the Houston Law Review.

Sophia has published articles in the Houston Law Review and on the American Bar Association website. Her article in Volume 58 of the Houston Law Review analyzes and suggests changes to bilateral investment treaty language amid heightened environmental concerns. Her article on the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources website proposes a legislative solution to the turbine blade waste issue faced by the U.S. wind energy industry.

 

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Representing an international energy company in a AAA arbitration involving claims arising out of an EPC contract governing the construction of a Combined Cycle Power Plant (construction, energy)

Representing an international oil company in two UNCITRAL arbitrations involving claims arising out of a production sharing contract for large oil operations in northern India. Claims relate to cost recovery, gas pricing, and other matters (traditional energy)

Representing Chevron Corporation (U.S.A.) and Texaco Petroleum Company (U.S.A.) in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty

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Representing an international energy company in a AAA arbitration involving claims arising out of an EPC contract governing the construction of a Combined Cycle Power Plant (construction, energy)

Representing an international oil company in two UNCITRAL arbitrations involving claims arising out of a production sharing contract for large oil operations in northern India. Claims relate to cost recovery, gas pricing, and other matters (traditional energy)

Representing Chevron Corporation (U.S.A.) and Texaco Petroleum Company (U.S.A.) in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty

Representing a French construction group in an ICSID arbitration against Peru in a toll road concession project. The case involves claims to toll rate income and other miscellaneous issues (highway infrastructure)

Representing the Dutch subsidiary of an American infrastructure company in an ICSID arbitration arising from the early termination of a financing broadband project in two of Peru’s provinces (telecommunications infrastructure)

Representing an American private equity firm in a NAFTA arbitration against Mexico in which the investor alleges denial of justice and judicial expropriation of property rights in a sugar mill located in Northwestern Mexico (real estate)

Matters

Representing an international energy company in a AAA arbitration involving claims arising out of an EPC contract governing the construction of a Combined Cycle Power Plant (construction, energy)

Representing an international oil company in two UNCITRAL arbitrations involving claims arising out of a production sharing contract for large oil operations in northern India. Claims relate to cost recovery, gas pricing, and other matters (traditional energy)

Representing Chevron Corporation (U.S.A.) and Texaco Petroleum Company (U.S.A.) in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty

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Matters

Representing an international energy company in a AAA arbitration involving claims arising out of an EPC contract governing the construction of a Combined Cycle Power Plant (construction, energy)

Representing an international oil company in two UNCITRAL arbitrations involving claims arising out of a production sharing contract for large oil operations in northern India. Claims relate to cost recovery, gas pricing, and other matters (traditional energy)

Representing Chevron Corporation (U.S.A.) and Texaco Petroleum Company (U.S.A.) in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty

Representing a French construction group in an ICSID arbitration against Peru in a toll road concession project. The case involves claims to toll rate income and other miscellaneous issues (highway infrastructure)

Representing the Dutch subsidiary of an American infrastructure company in an ICSID arbitration arising from the early termination of a financing broadband project in two of Peru’s provinces (telecommunications infrastructure)

Representing an American private equity firm in a NAFTA arbitration against Mexico in which the investor alleges denial of justice and judicial expropriation of property rights in a sugar mill located in Northwestern Mexico (real estate)

Credentials

J.D., University of Houston Law Center, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif

A.B., Brown University, thesis distinction

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