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Carmen Martinez Lopez to speak at the 5th ICC Ecuador Week

Events 23rd April 2025

Carmen Martinez Lopez will speak at the 5th ICC Ecuador ADR Week on a panel titled, “The Origin of the Journey – Structural Obstacles in Arbitration” in Quito, Ecuador. The panel will take place on Wednesday, 23 April 2025 at Hotel JW Marriott.

Carmen will speak alongside Gonzalo González Galarza, Jaime Vintimilla Saldaña, María Rosa Fabara, and Fabián Fabara. César Coronel Jones will be moderating this panel.

For more information, please visit: https://iccecuador.ec/

ABOUT CARMEN MARTINEZ LOPEZ

Carmen, a partner in the Madrid office, has appeared as advocate in numerous investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. She has handled arbitrations under the rules of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc across a variety of jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Latin America and Spain. Carmen also sits as arbitrator.

Carmen is recognised in all major publications, including as a “Leading Individual” in The Legal 500 Latin America, with sources describing her as  “one of the most impressive legal minds I have encountered”, a “truly gifted practitioner”, who “has worked on some of the biggest cases of all time”, delivers “in a friendly and folksy tone, a very persuasive oral argument and a devastating cross-examination”, “gets into the details while keeping a strategic mindset”, “understands problems very well in a global way”, “has a lot of availability for the client”, and “has certainly been building up a fantastic reputation” in the market for her work in both investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. She has also been described as a “brilliant arbitrator”.