José-Manuel García Represa concentrates his practice on international commercial and investment arbitration, with a particular focus on cases involving Latin America and Spain, representing parties in disputes involving post-M&A purchase price adjustments, joint ventures, insurance coverage, sales and distribution contracts, telecommunications, construction contracts (civil engineering) mining and oil & gas.
He has extensive experience in cases involving multiple jurisdictions and procedural rules and has appeared before ICC, ICSID and ad hoc-UNCITRAL arbitral tribunals. Mr. García Represa has handled cases in a variety of industries, including retail, CAD/CAM textile design and manufacturing, telecommunications, auto-parts distribution, airport management and construction, highway construction, oil & gas (upstream and midstream), mining (metallic and non-metallic minerals) and fashion design.
In 2012, Mr. García Represa was recognized for his international arbitration practice by Legal 500 Latin America which noted he is “undoubtedly an emerging figure in the field of Latin American international arbitration” with “considerable experience and reputation.”
Prior to joining Dechert, he was a member of the international arbitration groups of Shearman & Sterling and Latham & Watkins in Paris.
Significant Representations
He has acted as counsel for, inter alia:
- A major U.S. conglomerate in an ICC dispute against its U.S. partner in a French cotton and paper products joint venture
- A French engineering and construction company in a Spanish-language ICC arbitration with a Central American State entity related to the construction of a hydroelectric power generation plant
- A leading European telecom company in an ICC arbitration arising out of a shareholders' dispute exceeding US$1 billion with its joint venture partner in the Middle East
- A U.S. engineering and construction company and its airport management subsidiary in a domestic Spanish-language construction and tariff dispute against the State civil aviation authorities of a Central American State
- A European engineering firm against a Latin American national petroleum company in a dispute involving delay and disruption claims relating to the construction of an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Campeche, Mexico
- A Latin American State in three ICSID arbitrations against some of the major oil companies in the world and two UNCITRAL arbitrations with regard to the termination of telecommunications and mining concession contracts
- A Latin American State in four investment arbitrations in several sectors, such as telecommunications, mining, and oil, under the auspices of ICSID, and UNCITRAL rules held in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
- A French listed company specialized in the design and production of CAD/CAM for the textile industry in an arbitration administered under the auspices of the ICC against the largest Spanish retail company
- A German multinational and its U.S. subsidiary in an ICC arbitration initiated by a Spanish automotive components manufacturer involving claims over US$100 million (including patent infringement claims)
- A South American State in three ICSID investment disputes with major foreign oil companies and one UNCITRAL investment dispute arising from the termination of a telecommunications concession contract
- An Argentinean group of investors in an ICSID dispute against a South American State related to the termination of a concession contract to design, build and operate a toll speedway for alleged construction delays
- A South American State in three investment disputes arising from nationalizations in the mining, telecommunications and oil & gas sectors
Education
Complutense University of Madrid, 2000
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Law degree, 2000
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, DESS, International Commercial Law, 2001, La Caixa scholar
Columbia Law School, LL.M., 2003, Fulbright scholar
Columbia Law School, Parker School Certificate in International Law, 2003
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
Madrid
Paris
New York
Memberships
Member of Club Español del Arbitraje (CEA)
Member of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI-Paris)
Member of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Languages
English
Spanish
French