Miguel López Forastier
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 3 : International Arbitration
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About
Provided by Miguel López Forastier
Practice Areas
Miguel López Forastier focuses his practice on international arbitration and litigation. He has successfully represented a wide range of clients, including those in the oil and gas, communications, financial services, media, food, and mining industries in investor-State and commercial arbitrations. Both civil and common-law trained, Mr. López Forastier handles contentious work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Career
Cámara de Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Comercial de Buenos Aires, Argentina (Commercial Court of Appeals of Buenos Aires).
Personal
The George Washington University, LL.M. in Patents and Intellectual Property Law, 1997; Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Abogado, 1994.
Chambers Review
Latin America
Miguel López Forastier is co-chair of Covington & Burling's global problem-solving practice. He is adept at both investor-state and commercial arbitration matters arising in Latin America, particularly those concerning Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Miguel López Forastier is an amazing leader who is on top of every single aspect of the case. He is very organised in the way he delegates work to his team members."
"Miguel López Forastier is an amazing leader who is on top of every single aspect of the case. He is very organised in the way he delegates work to his team members."
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