Eva Paloma Treves

Associate - Paris

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Eva Paloma Treves is an Associate in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation & Arbitration Department, based in Paris. Originally trained in Italy, she focuses her practice on advising and representing sovereign States and State-owned companies in disputes related to foreign investment. Prior to joining the firm, Eva Paloma practiced in leading international law firms, both in London and in Italy, where she worked on several high-profile investor-State arbitrations, both representing the State and the private entities.

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Education:

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M., Dean's Graduate, 2017
  • Università Delgi Studi Di Milano, J.D, summa cum laude, 2013
  • The Hague Academy of International Law, Certificate, Private International Law, 2012

Languages:

English, Spanish, Italian

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to the Republic of Ecuador in Consorcio GLP Ecuador v. Republic of Ecuador (UNCITRAL case).
  • Counsel to the Dominican Corporation of Power State Companies (CDEEE) in a dispute related to the construction of a power plant in the Dominican Republic.
  • Counsel to a Nicaraguan company in a dispute and in the eventual arbitration before the ICC against a Colombian company related to corporate matters in the energy sector.

Professional Experience

  • Previously worked in the International Arbitration department of leading international law firms in Italy and in London, where she worked, inter alia, on the following cases:
    • Advised investors, dual nationals, claimants in the proceedings under UNCITRAL arbitration rules, on claim against State of their own nationality, for the expropriation of their food distribution business.
    • Advised an Eastern European State in four ICSID investment proceedings stemming from an intra-EU BIT against several banks, in light of the State’s law on conversion of loans denominated in Swiss francs into loans denominated in euros.
  • Permanent Court of Arbitration: assisted several arbitral tribunals in investor-state matters, and the PCA Secretary-General as an appointing authority and in his role of designating appointing authorities. (2017-2018)
  • Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs: Research Assistant (2013)
  • “Dual Nationals Are Now Welcome: A Way Out of ICSID’s Dual Nationality Exclusion,” NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 49, 607
  • “Tecnimont v. Avax: The Return of Procedural Estoppel,” Transnational Notes (February 2017)
  • “Protección de los acreedores en situaciones transfronterizas (STJUE de 10 de diciembre de 2015, Asunto 594/2014: Kornhaas),” La Ley Unión, Vol. 38 (2016)

Honors

  • Dean’s Graduate Award, New York University School of Law, 2016-2017
  • Premio Padovani, ISIL – Italian Society of International Law, 2014
  • Laureato Meritevole – ALGIUSMI, 2013

Involvement

  • American Society of International Law
  • New York Bar Association
  • Young International Arbitration Group

 

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