Eva Paloma Treves

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.
• Counsel to Croatia in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the Croatia-Austria bilateral investment treaty arising from alleged investments in Croatia’s financial and banking sectors.
• Counsel to Croatia in an ICSID arbitration under the Croatia-Netherlands bilateral investment treaty arising from alleged investments in a retail enterprise in Croatia.
• Counsel to Uruguay in an arbitration under the Panama-Uruguay BIT, involving the collapse of Uruguay’s national airline, Pluna (ongoing).
• Bacilio Amorrortu v. The Republic of Peru. Counsel to Peru in an UNCITRAL arbitration concerning oil exploration and exploitation.
• The Lopez-Goyne Family Trust and others v. Republic of Nicaragua. Counsel to Nicaragua in ICSID arbitration concerning oil exploration and exploitation.

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)