Jose F Sanchez

Practice Areas

Jose F. Sanchez handles international arbitration matters in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, under the laws of numerous jurisdictions across the globe, with emphasis in New York and Latin America, under the ICC, ICSID, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce Rules. Jose’s practice focuses mostly on infrastructure, energy, investor-state relationships, and post-acquisition disputes, and he also has significant experience on disputes involving Intellectual Property rights and disputes related to the hospitality industry. In addition to acting as counsel, Jose has also served as arbitrator in cases handled by several institutions.

Jose is recognized for his work as counsel on international arbitration by the most relevant publications, including Chambers Global (2018-2022), Chambers USA (2018-2022), Chambers Latin-America-Wide (2018-2022), the Legal 500 Latin America, the Legal 500 US, Latinvex, and Latin Lawyer 250. For instance, Chambers USA (2018) reported that Jose “holds an excellent reputation for his expert advocacy,” and “is deemed ‘one of the brightest lawyers in the field,’” and “garner[s] accolades from clients as a ‘brilliant, relentless and persuasive’ advocate and for his ability to ‘produce outstanding results under incredible pressure. Chambers Latin America-Wide (2020), in turn, reports that clients refer to Jose as “a star“ who “really gets completely involved; it’s like he’s defending his own mother. He’s well spoken, writes very well and comes up with fantastic ideas. He’s really very impressive.”

Jose is a rising leader on the international arbitration field. His legal articles have been published by the most relevant publications on the field, and he is frequently invited to speak at international arbitration events in the United States and Latin America. Additionally, he is a member of the Arbitration Committee of the New York City Bar, a regional representative of the ICC for North America (Young Arbitrators Forum), and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (New York branch). Jose has also served as North America Regional Representative for the LCIA (Young International Arbitration Group), and as member of the Global Advisory Board of the ICDR (Young and International Group).

Jose also handles cross-border litigation issues related to arbitration, mostly in the Second and Fifth Circuits, such as enforcement of arbitration and forum selection clauses, choice of law clauses, foreign judgments, and arbitration awards.

Personal

Georgetown University Law Center, 2009; Master’s in Business and Economic Law (LLM); Distinction and Dean’s List

Sergio Arboleda University, Bogota, Colombia, 2005; Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent); summa cum laude