Practice Areas
Arbitration and Litigation; Oil, Energy and Mining; Civil, Administrative and Constitutional Law; Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions; International Trade and Foreign Investment; Concessions, Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructure Projects.
Career
Hernán is one of Coronel & Pérez co-founder. His experience involves, mainly, matters of arbitration and investment litigation; contract law, especially public contracts; mergers and acquisitions; constitutional law and administrative law. He has represented clients in human rights matters before the Interamerican System of Human Rights; and he has represented the Republic of Ecuador in diplomatic negotiations.
He has been Legal Advisor to the Attorney General´s Office, the President of Ecuador, and Alternate Delegate in the Constitutional Convention of 1998. Since the year 2005, Hernán is a registered arbitrator, and is currently Delegate of Ecuador before the Arbitration Commission of the ICC, Paris. Also, he is licensed to practice as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the State of New York.
Professional Memberships
• Member of the American Society of International Law
• Member of the American Society of Comparative Law
• Member of the IBA
• Member of the ABA
• Member of the New York City Bar Association
• Member of Consejo para las Américas de Abogados por Derechos Civiles y Económicos