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Roxana Gayoso

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Work Department

Dispute Resolution, Domestic and International Arbitrations, Litigation

Position

Of Counsel

Career

Roxana is a lawyer, expert in litigation and commercial arbitration with more than 20 years of experience.  She is part of the Dispute Resolution team of Estudio Echecopar, associated with Baker & McKenzie International. She is arbitrator of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (AMCHAM). She graduated in 2001 from Universidad de Lima and holds a Master of Civil Litigation and a Master of Business Law both from Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (2005-2007). In addition she holds a Diploma of “Derecho Procesal Constitucional” from Universidad San Martín de Porres (2003), a Diploma of International and National Arbitration from Universidad del Pacífico’s Graduate School in Lima (2010), and a Diploma of Specialization in Arbitration in Contracts with the State in the Center for Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts of  Universidad Católica del Perú (2022).

Roxana has very extensive experience in judicial proceedings. Her specialty leans towards civil responsibility, contractual and commercial  and civil controversies, and conflicts related real state issues and especially in claims of the nullity of administrative resolutions.

In arbitration, she has extensive experience and has taken part in 40 arbitration procedures in the last years involving infrastructure, construction, mining, corporate law, real estate and expropriation matters. Roxana has led an arbitration process and negotiations for the expansion of Jorge Chavez International Airport, achieving an increase of 1,500% in value per square meter. She is an expert in processes for the annulment of arbitration awards and in processes for the enforcement of awards.

Since 2007, she has been committed to promoting Pro Bono work at the Lima office in her role as part of the Pro Bono Committee. Her work has been acknowledged by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (Annual report for 2017). She is also a member of the Firm’s Regional Pro Bono Committee.

Roxana has a solid international experience developed through her work as foreign attorney at Estudio Echecopar in Barcelona, Spain in Civil and Litigation Practice Groups. She often participates as a speaker in litigation conferences in Peru and has been recognized as Recommended Litigation Lawyer by Legal 500 (2019).  She also has held the university chair in Civil Procedural Law at the undergraduate level of the Universidad de Lima’s Law School and in the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, as well as teaching at the postgraduate level in the Diploma of Specialization in Arbitration at Universidad ESAN. In 2022 she has returned to the Universidad de Lima’s Law School to teach Civil Procedural Law II.

Since 2020 Roxana has consolidated her publications and academic opinion on her personal blog.

Languages

English, Spanish

Education

• INTRAPRENEUR, Cambio & Gerencia Consultores, “Training to develop new strategies and strengthen teamwork”, 2018.
• Graduate School of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, “Creating Leaders Workshop”, 2016.
• Cambridge International Consulting, LLC. “Negotiation Workshop”, 2010.
• Escuela de Posgrado de la Universidad del Pacifico, Diploma, International and National Arbitration, Lima, 2009.
• Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Master in Corporate Law, Barcelona, 2006-2007.
• Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Specialization Course of Civil Litigation, Barcelona, 2005-2006.
• Universidad San Martin de Porres, Diploma, Constitutional Procedure Law, Lima, 2003.
• Universidad de Lima, Law Degree, Lima, 2001

Personal

• Professor of Law of Civil Procedure II (Remedies and special procedures) at Universidad de Lima, 2022.
• Professor in the postgraduate level in the Diploma of Specialization in Arbitration at Universidad ESAN, 2017.
• Teaching Assistant of Law of Civil Procedure II (Remedies and special procedures) at Universidad de Lima, 2004.
• Teaching Assistant of Law of Civil Procedure II at Universidad de Lima, 2008.
• Professor of Law of Civil Procedure II (Remedies and special procedures) at Universidad de Lima, 2004.
• Professor of Law of Civil Procedure II at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2002.
• Teaching Assistant of Law of Civil Procedure at Universidad de Lima, 1999 – 2003.