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Three Crowns team to speak at 10th ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration

Publications 10th January 2022

Carmen Martinez Lopez will be speaking on the “Around the World in Renewables” panel at the 10th ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration, hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the Institute for Energy Law, the Center for American and International Law, and the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

The panellists will survey current and brewing disputes across different jurisdictions, including Spain, which in 2021 saw the 50th treaty claim from renewable energy investors, and Mexico, which is undergoing significant legal and regulatory changes in the energy sector. They will also discuss the direction future renewables disputes may take, exploring trends and developments in the renewables sector.

Constantine Partasides QC will pay tribute to Professor J. Martin Hunter, a specialist in international arbitration since 1967, who served as adviser, advocate, and arbitrator on several hundreds of cases, co-authored Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration with his law partner and great friend Alan Redfern, and was a great mentor to generations of young lawyers all over the world.

This year’s conference, which takes place virtually on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 January, considers the various sources of change and their impact on commercial and investment disputes, addressing key factors driving this change around the world, including the pandemic, energy transition, and geopolitics.

To find out more and to register, click here.

ABOUT  CARMEN MARTINEZ LOPEZ

Carmen, a partner in the London office, appears regularly as advocate in numerous investment treaty and commercial arbitrations, both under the rules of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc. Her matters involve a variety of jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Latin America and Spain.

She is recognised in all major publications, with sources describing her as “one of the most impressive legal minds I have encountered”, a “truly gifted practitioner”, who “understands problems very well in a global way”.

Carmen holds a LLM from Columbia Law School, and also hold degrees from the College of Europe and the University of Murcia (Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera and Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera).

ABOUT  CONSTANTINE PARTASIDES QC

Constantine, a founding partner of the firm based in our London office, is recognised in all major directories and publications. Chambers UK list him as a “Star Individual” in International Arbitration—one of only two lawyers with this ranking, he was named in the “Hall of Fame” for International Arbitration in the 2021 edition The Legal 500 UK, and has been ranked as one of the “Top 20” individuals in the world of commercial arbitration every year since 2011 by Who’s Who Legal.

Constantine is a co-author of the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of the leading textbook on international arbitration, “Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration”. He is a Director of the LCIA Board.

Constantine is a solicitor-advocate (Higher Courts Civil) and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014. He was educated at King’s College, London, and Cambridge University.