Simon Navarro Gonzalez

Practice Areas

SIMON NAVARRO GONZALEZ focuses on international arbitration and litigation, with an emphasis on U.S., Latin America, and Spain. With over 20 years of experience in the Americas and Europe, Simon has acted as counsel and arbitrator in some of the most complex, high-value commercial, and investment treaty arbitrations, both ad hoc and under the rules of the major arbitral institutions. He has advised in a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, renewable energy, banking and insurance, M&A transactions, construction, maritime, infrastructure, airports, and concession contracts. Simon has extensive experience, as counsel and arbitrator, in cases involving projects or parties from Latin America, under the substantive laws of the U.S., UK, Spain, and most Latin American jurisdictions, including Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panamá, Chile, Perú, Argentina, Honduras, Brazil, Venezuela, and Bolivia. He has led dozens of multi-party arbitrations involving States or State-owned entities.

Simon is currently representing clients in various international arbitrations, including one of the largest oil and gas cases in the world, the largest NAFTA claim against Mexico, and a combined strategy of disputes leveraging investor-state arbitration, commercial arbitration, and international trade claims. He also has ample extensive experience in litigation in support of arbitration, and is currently representing a sovereign State in award enforcement proceedings in the U.S., in what has been reported as one of four international arbitration cases to watch for 2024.