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Dr Edwin Pezo

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Work Department

Dispute resolution

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Partner, Litigation and Arbitration, Lava & Pezo Abogados. Represented domestic and multinational clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration in matters regarding energy, oil & gas, construction, commercial and shareholders disputes, among others (2013-2017); Senior counsel, Maple Gas Corporation del Peru.  Represented the company in all litigation and arbitrations matters arising out of its oil & gas operations.  Advised on agreements related to the upstream and downstream activities, including cementing, drilling, seismic, construction, EPC, oilfield services and transportation. (2008 – 2013); Legal counsel – LATAM, Internship Program, Motorola Inc., Florida, EE.UU. Advised on transactions entered by Motorola´s affiliates across the region (2007); Senior Associate, Payet, Rey, Cauvi Abogados. Represented domestic and transnational clients in a variety of business disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals (2005 – 2006); Foreign associate, Holland & Knight LLP. Miami, EE. UU. (2004 – 2005). Assisted on cross-border transactions, and international litigation and arbitration matters.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Listed as arbitrator at the Lima Chamber of Commerce; Listed as arbitrator at the American Chambers of Commerce (Amcham); Listed as arbitrator at the PUCP Arbitration Center.

Education

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, School of Law (1993 -1999); Master in Laws (LL.M.), Class of 2004, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, USA. (2003 – 2004); uris Doctor (JD), University of Miami, School of Law, Claude M. Olds Scholar , Florida, USA (2010); Scholarship at the External Programme at Academia de la Haya de Derecho Internacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012); Professor of Arbitration at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2017-to date); Professor of Anglosaxon law at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2014-to date); Professor of Romano-Germanic and Anglosaxon System at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) (2016-to date)