Macarena is an associate in the Madrid office. She specialises in commercial and investment arbitration under a variety of arbitration rules in a range of sectors including energy and natural resources, pharmaceuticals, and construction.
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Macarena was an advisor in the International Affairs and Arbitration Department of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Ecuador, where she represented the Ecuadorian State in various international arbitrations and annulment and enforcement proceedings in foreign jurisdictions. Macarena also did a clerkship at the National Court of Justice of Ecuador, where she assisted judges in civil, commercial, administrative and labour matters.
Macarena holds an LL.B. from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where she graduated first of her class and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Gammon Fellow and was awarded the Dean’s Scholar Prize on International Investment Arbitration. She also holds an LL.M. on International Business Law and a Postgraduate Diploma on Public International Law from the University of London in a joint programme with University College London and Queen Mary University of London.
Macarena is a co-founder of Ecuadorian Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (ECUVYAP) and she coaches the arbitration moot team of University of San Francisco of Quito.
Macarena is admitted to practice in Ecuador and New York, and speaks Spanish, English, and French.
Bar and court admissions
Languages
English
French
Spanish
Representing Sacyr in its UNCITRAL investment arbitration against the Republic of Panama arising from the Expansion of the Panama Canal
Representing the Republic of Chile in its ICSID arbitration with a Colombian construction and power distribution company under the Chile-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Advising a Middle Eastern oil and gas company in a dispute against a European State
Representing Ecuador in an UNCITRAL arbitration initiated by two major oil companies under the US-Ecuador BIT in connection with a denial justice claim
Representing Ecuador in an UNCITRAL arbitration initiated by a pharmaceutical company under the US-Ecuador BIT in connection with a denial justice claim
Advising Ecuador in a mining sector dispute involving a dual-national citizen invoking the Peru-Ecuador BIT and the China-Ecuador BIT
- LL.M, Harvard Law School
- LL.M, University of London
- Postgraduate Diploma, International Dispute Resolution, University of London
- Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, Public International Law, University of London
- LL.B, University of San Francisco of Quito