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In his 25 years as a transnational attorney, Ignacio Torterola has served as lead counsel, sole arbitrator, chairman, and tribunal member in over 100 high-stakes international arbitrations. He is a top-ranked attorney and has been named a “Leading Arbitration Practitioner” in Latin America and worldwide by Chambers Latin America, Chambers Global, and Legal 500 consecutively since 2015. Since 2022 WWL has recognized him as Global Leader in International Arbitration for the Washington, DC area. Ignacio Serves as head of the International Arbitration practice.

Ignacio represented Argentina before international arbitral tribunals and litigation proceedings in the landslide of commercial and investment arbitration disputes concerning primarily the complex issues that arose from the 2001/2002 economic, social and political crisis in his country. In that regard, he represented Argentina in more than 40 high- stakes large-size ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitrations (jurisdiction, merits and annulment phases) under the Argentine BITs with the United States, Germany, UK, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Chile, among others, spanning the water and sanitation, oil and gas, manufacturing, infrastructure and financial services industries. More recently, Ignacio has represented other Sovereigns in Latin America in international litigation and commercial and investment arbitration.

Ignacio was previously a professional diplomat, counsel and Deputy Director of the Office of the Argentine Treasury Attorney General, Office that represents Argentina in international legal disputes. Subsequently, he was the Head of the Argentine Liaison Office before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the Argentine Embassy in Washington, D.C (2006 - 2012). Ignacio negotiated, on behalf of Argentina, the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Understanding.

He has also represented Argentina before the OECD Investment Committee and UNCTAD Investment and Enterprise Committee. He writes and teaches extensively on international law and international arbitration, and published a commentary Book to the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He is Co-Director of International Arbitration Case Law (IACL)^[1]

Ignacio is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and has a good understanding and working knowledge of Portuguese. Ignacio has taught international arbitration and international law in the most prestigious universities worldwide.

^[1] IACL and TDM/OGEMID are working together to create and make publicly available a database containing case abstracts of arbitral awards, you can find a complete list of all published reports here www.transnational-dispute-management.com/casereports.asp