USA Guide 2026 : USA - Nationwide
Ranked Individuals
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Latham & Watkins is highlighted for their expertise in handling commercial and investor-state disputes. The firm handles arbitrations in various industries including energy, mining and pharmaceuticals. The Latham team also brings particular expertise in the Latin American market.
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Latham & Watkins is representing Calidda in an ICSID arbitration against Peru, stemming from the concession for Lima’s gas infrastructure.
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As a BigLaw firm, the broad experience and the extraordinary teams they have gives the client a top quality service. You can rely on them.
They have excellent strength in depth across the team, offering skilled advocacy, command of the detail and a very commercial mindset.
They're very smart operators, with deep research capability and the ability to produce legal products of extremely high quality at short notice. They got to grips with all of the commercial issues in record time.
Latham is a powerhouse. They're really easy to work with and they made it a very easy experience. The direction of instructions and discussions around strategy were really impressive.
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John Pierce is global co-chair of Latham & Watkins’ international arbitration practice. He focuses on commercial arbitrations and has particular expertise in the commercial, energy and intellectual property sectors.
He's very experienced, bright, easy to work with and incredibly polite - he doesn't have ego, so he's very efficient and very good at picking up the real issues.
He was very thoughtful and incredibly meticulous about the details of the case.
He's the smartest lawyer I have met. His knowledge and experience in international arbitration allowed us to dominate the opposition. He made the attorney at another marquee firm look like an amateur.
Santiago Bejarano represents both companies and states in commercial and investor-state disputes. He regularly handles matters pertaining to M&A, as well as energy and pharmaceutical disputes.
He's excellent, a great lawyer and fantastic to work with.
Santiago is one of the up and coming rock stars in arbitration. He's very impressive, very bright and has the ability to improvise when needed. He can read the tribunals very well.
Santiago really goes to bat for his clients in terms of intensity of work and the effort that goes into that.
International Arbitration: Counsel
International Arbitration: Counsel
Latin America 2026
Practice area: International Arbitration
Location: International Counsel
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