Roberto Williams

Corporate and M&A

Litigation and Arbitration

Roberto is a lawyer with more than 25 years of experience, specializing in judicial and arbitral litigation, intellectual property, insurance law, and commercial dispute resolution.

Roberto Alejandro Williams Cruz is Managing Partner at ECIJA Honduras, with over 25 years of experience advising national and international companies. His practice focuses on litigation and arbitration related to distribution contracts, foreign investments, intellectual property—particularly in the application of international treaties—insurance claims, and condominium property disputes.

He has participated in more than 40 arbitration proceedings as party counsel, tribunal secretary, and arbitrator.

Roberto also serves as a professor at CEUTEC-UNITEC, teaching courses in international trade and alternative dispute resolution. He is a regular lecturer on arbitration, intellectual property, distribution contracts, and investment protection topics.

- Arbitrator and conciliator at the Center for Conciliation and Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tegucigalpa

- Member of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC)

- Member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and the Central American and Caribbean Arbitration Group (GCCA)

- Member of the WIPO Mediation Pledge of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH)

Law Degree

Central American Technological University (UNITEC)

Master's Degree in Business Law

Technological University of Honduras (UTH), in collaboration with Spanish universities

Master's studies in Civil Procedural Law

IE University Law School

Legal Project Management & Process Improvement Program

Dispute Resolution: Lawyer Band 2 (Latin America 2025)

Chambers Latin America

Intellectual Property: Leading Partner (Latin America 2025)

Legal 500

Honduras