“Marco Molina is an extraordinary lawyer with a remarkable ability to grasp a huge amount of facts, put them in order and come up with cogent analysis that leads to good arguments.”
— Chambers Global 2026
Marco Molina is a partner in BakerHostetler’s International Arbitration and Litigation Group, where he represents sovereign states, multinational corporations and private investors in complex cross-border disputes. He has extensive experience in high-stakes international arbitrations under the ICSID, SIAC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC, LCIA, ICC, ICDR, CPR and AAA rules, as well as in related litigation before U.S. federal and state courts. Marco’s practice spans investor–state and commercial arbitration, cross-border judgment and award enforcement, global asset tracing and the rapidly evolving digital assets and blockchain sector.
Dual qualified in New York and California, Marco regularly appears in U.S. federal and state courts in high-profile cases involving cross-border disputes involving treaty interpretation, enforcement of foreign awards/judgments, asset tracing and recovery and other complex disputes involving parallel proceedings in the U.S. and abroad. He is one of the senior leaders of the team that acts as counsel to the court-appointed Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Marco is the Chairman of the Foreign Discovery Committee and is very experienced in seeking discovery through international channels as well as obtaining Section 1782 discovery in the U.S. for foreign proceedings. Marco also has significant experience conducting internal investigations, FCPA compliance and extraditions.
Marco has been ranked by Chambers, Marquis Who’s Who, The Legal 500 and New York Metro Super Lawyers and was recently recognized as “Litigator of the Week” by Law.com. He was also recently recognized as a BTI Client Service All-Star, with one client stating, “Marco is always one step ahead of the competition. I’m fully confident in his advice and decisions.”
A fluent Spanish speaker, Marco regularly handles Spanish-language litigations. He is also a qualified arbitrator and recently successfully completed the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for North America organized by the ICC. Marco is also proficient in Italian.
