Practice Areas
Manuel has a broad and busy practice, focusing on public international law, international arbitration (including enforcement and challenges before domestic courts), and commercial law.
His public international law practice covers inter-State disputes, treaties, law of the sea, international arbitrations (commercial and investment), as well as international law issues before domestic courts.
Manuel's commercial practice covers energy and natural resources, civil fraud, commodities, conflicts of laws, and shareholder/company disputes.
Most of Manuel’s work has an international element. In addition to the UK, Manuel has acted or advised in matters in more than twenty different jurisdictions (including the United States, Russia, Singapore, the UAE, and a good part of Latin America), in four different languages. Given his background and experience, Manuel has extensively dealt with complex, high-risk jurisdictions, and disputes involving allegations of fraud, corruption, and deception.