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Jose Sanchez

Work Department
International Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Position
Counsel
Career
Jose F. Sanchez handles international arbitration matters in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, under the laws of numerous jurisdictions across the globe, with emphasis in New York and Latin America, under the ICC, ICSID, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce Rules. Jose’s practice focuses mostly on infrastructure, energy, investor-state relationships, and post-acquisition disputes, and he also has significant experience on disputes involving Intellectual Property rights and disputes related to the hospitality industry. In addition to acting as counsel, Jose has also served as arbitrator in cases handled by several institutions.
Jose also handles cross-border litigation issues related to arbitration, mostly in the Second and Fifth Circuits, such as enforcement of arbitration and forum selection clauses, choice of law clauses, foreign judgments, and arbitration awards.
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > International arbitration
(Next Generation Partners)United States > Dispute resolution > International arbitration
Vinson & Elkins LLP‘s international arbitration practice specializes in disputes involving energy, infrastructure development, and technology. Members of the team are particularly skilled at handling international energy and construction disputes, as well as ICSID annulment proceedings involving bilateral investment treaties, and advising on hydrocarbon developers’ rights. In Houston, team head James Loftis is noted for his expertise in both commercial and investor-state disputes, and arbitrations involving energy, construction, and infrastructure development. Loftis is joined at leadership level by New York-based Camilo Cardozo, who is particularly skilled at handling Latin American commercial arbitrations. In New York, the trilingual José F Sanchez regularly acts as lead counsel on high-profile bet-the company cases, and has vast experience of handling injunctive relief work, while in Houston Peter Danysh has knowledge of all major institutional rules.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism