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Miranda & Amado Offices

Miranda & Amado
AV JOSÉ LARCO 1301
TORRE PARQUE MAR
MIRAFLORES, LIMA 18
Peru
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Mauricio Raffo

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Position

Partner

Career

Mauricio leads the firm’s dispute resolution team. His practice focuses on litigation and arbitration, with broad experience in complex regulatory disputes regarding infrastructure and construction projects. He has participated in a variety of important disputes, successfully counseling transnational corporations in more than 100 arbitrations, both domestic and international, under ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, CCL, AMCHAM and PUCP rules, among others, as well as in more than 500 judicial, commercial, civil, contentious-administrative and constitutional proceedings. He has been recognized as a market-leading lawyer, both in arbitration and litigation matters, by the most prestigious international publications. He is a member of Peru’s ICC Arbitration Committee and a partner at Club Español del Arbitraje, and is among the List of Arbitrators of the Lima Chamber of Commerce. Mauricio has served as professor of Procedural Law at Universidad de Lima from 2000 to 2012, Universidad del Pacífico from 2011 to 2012, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2006) and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC from 2002 to 2004. Likewise, in 2007, he was a professor in the Master’s Degree Program in Procedural Law and Dispute Resolution at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC. He has been a partner at Miranda & Amado since 2005, having joined the firm as an associate in 2003. Prior to that, he was a partner at Estudio Jorge Avendaño V. Abogados from 1998 to 2003, and an associate at Delfino, Pasco, Ísola, Avendaño Abogados from 1996 to 1998. Mauricio is a lawyer from Universidad de Lima.

Languages

English, Spanish

Education

  • Universidad de Lima, Lawyer (1996).

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Peru > Dispute resolution: Arbitration

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Mauricio Raffo – Miranda & Amado

The arbitration practice at Miranda & Amado is headed by Mauricio Raffo, who has more than 25 years of experience in arbitration, with a specialism in investor-state arbitration. The team has particularly strong expertise in construction arbitration, with recent work examples including assisting Cumbra in an arbitration proceeding initiated by the Peruvian state, and acting as lead counsel for a major bank in several arbitrations concerning the performance of construction contracts and investment agreements. Other work includes representing a client in two landmark ICC arbitrations against the Republic of Peru. José Daniel Amado is a key contact for international arbitrations, while Cristina Ferraro‘s work focuses on the energy and extractive sectors. Luis Alonso Navarro handles investor-state disputes, and associate José Luis Repetto provides key support to the team.

Peru > Dispute resolution: Litigation

Miranda & Amado‘s litigation team is highly regarded in the market, counting household name companies on its client roster. The team is especially adept at handling complex regulatory disputes, with expertise in the mining, power, infrastructure, oil and gas, telecoms and electricity sectors. The practice is jointly headed by Giovanni Priori, whose recent work includes advising Telefónica del Perú on numerous cases, including the reversal of multiple Supreme Court rulings, and Mauricio Raffo, who has more than 25 years of experience as a litigator. Fellow seasoned litigator Santiago Carrillo is another key contact, and in recent team developments, Carlos Glave was promoted to partner in January 2023.

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