Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky

Experience

International Arbitration

• Representing a Luxembourg investor in an ICSID arbitration seeking compensation from Slovenia for multiple breaches of the Energy Charter Treaty.
• Representing U.S. investors in an ICSID arbitration seeking compensation from Grenada for the expropriation of an investment in a resort development.
• Representing U.S. investors in an ICSID arbitration seeking compensation from Peru for the expropriation of a renewable energy investment.
• Representing a Central American state in a treaty dispute arising out of an investment in the agricultural sector.
• Representing a digital finance company in a complex commercial arbitration under SIAC rules.
• Represented a Canadian investor in a claim arising out of Venezuela’s expropriation of a mining project, yielding a $1.2 billion award.
• Represented Georgian and UK investors seeking compensation from Azerbaijan for the expropriation of a petroleum investment under the Energy Charter Treaty.
• Represented ConocoPhillips in an ICSID arbitration arising from Venezuela’s unlawful expropriation of heavy oil investments, resulting in an award of more than $8 billion.
• Represented Middle Eastern investors in parallel investment and commercial claims challenging an African government’s termination of a railway concession.
• Represented a Middle Eastern investor in an UNCITRAL arbitration arising out of the expropriation of a series of manufacturing investments by an African state.
• Represented Hungary in the defense of Energy Charter Treaty claims brought by a French natural gas investor.
• Represented a ConocoPhillips subsidiary in an ICSID arbitration challenging Ecuador’s expropriation of oil investments, leading to a $380 million award.
• Represented a Uruguayan investor seeking compensation for Venezuela’s expropriation of an investment in the tobacco sector.
• Represented Tanzania’s public works ministry in an ICC arbitration arising out of a construction dispute with a Japanese engineering firm.
• Represented a U.S. construction firm in the ICC arbitration of a licensing dispute with a South Asian chemical company.
• Represented a European energy company in the UNCITRAL arbitration of a unitization dispute with an African state oil company.

Litigation

• Represented a U.S. defense contractor in the enforcement of a $130 million award against Venezuela and in subsequent efforts to execute judgment against Venezuelan assets.
• Represented UK investors in the enforcement of a $33 million ICSID award against Spain.
• Represented French investors in the enforcement of a $43 million ICSID award against Venezuela.
• Represented an investor-state arbitration claimant in third-party discovery proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in an investment treaty arbitration against Lithuania, and in a related appeal to the Second Circuit.
• Represented Swiss investors in the enforcement of a $450 million ICSID award against Venezuela.
• Represented French, Spanish and UK award creditors in parallel federal district court and ICSID annulment proceedings involving a challenge to an arbitrator with findings in favor of the client.
• Represented a South American government in an international asset recovery litigation spanning multiple jurisdictions.
• Represented former Iraqi and Afghan interpreters for U.S. armed forces whose special immigrant visa applications had been delayed for as long as six years in a suit to compel U.S. government action.
• Represented a Russian claimant in a third-party discovery proceeding pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in an investment treaty arbitration against Lithuania, and in a related appeal to the Second Circuit with findings in favor of the client.

Memberships

• European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration
• International Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association 
  • International Section: Executive Vice-Chair