Guillermo Salcedo Salas
Senior Associate
A dual French-Colombian national with more than 10 years of legal experience, Guillermo Salcedo Salas is avocat à la cour of the Paris bar and a lawyer in Colombia.
Guillermo has represented and advised states, state-owned entities, companies and individuals in more than 40 international arbitrations organised under the main arbitration rules (ICSID Convention, ICSID Convention's Additional Facility, UNCITRAL, ICC and CRCICA) regarding disputes in the construction, energy, oil and gas, industrial production, agriculture, food and transportation sectors, among others.
Prior to joining the firm, Guillermo acted as an international arbitration consultant for different law firms and companies in Europe and Latin America. He was also an associate in the international arbitration group of a US firm in Paris for several years.
Guillermo is trilingual in English, French and Spanish. He has an intermediate level of Portuguese.
- Representing the Republic of Peru in three commercial arbitrations under the ICSID rules, related to a concession agreement for the construction of a large-scale public works project in Lima, Peru.
- Representing the Republic of Peru in Operadora Ecológica del Titicaca S.A.C. v. Republic of Peru (ICSID Case No. ARB/23/11), a dispute concerning the design, construction and operation of wastewater treatment facilities in Lake Titicaca.
- Representing a South American state and a state-owned entity against several European international construction companies in two parallel ICC arbitrations regarding the construction of the national railway transportation system.
- Representing the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in four annulment proceedings under the ICSID Convention whose underlying arbitrations arose in the oil and gas, fertiliser and food industries.
- Representing the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in five arbitrations under the ICSID Convention's Additional Facility, four arbitrations under the ICSID Convention and three arbitrations under the PCA rules. Disputes arose in the oil and gas, transportation, industrial production of different goods, agriculture, insurance and food sectors.
- Representing a Spanish engineering company and its Latin American subsidiary in a complex multiparty litigation concerning a turnkey contract for the construction of a combined cycle power plant.
- Representing the Arab Republic of Egypt in an arbitration under the ICSID Convention initiated by Bawabet Al-Kuwait Holding Company. The Egypt-Kuwait bilateral investment treaty was applicable to the dispute, which arose with respect to the operation of a fertiliser production plant and an associated long-term gas supply contract.
- Representing a North African state-owned entity against a European gas industry company in an ICC arbitration and in two arbitrations under the CRCICA rules. The dispute arose from the execution of a natural gas supply contract and was linked to four parallel arbitrations.
- Representing a North African joint venture in an ICC arbitration against a European company. The dispute arose in connection with a project for the construction of liquefied petroleum gas facilities.
- Representing a European pharmaceutical company in an ICC arbitration against a European company. The dispute arose out of third-party claims following the acquisition of a company.
- Representing two South American national oil companies in an ICC case against an Asian national oil company. The dispute arose from the execution of a contract for the exploration and shared management of offshore oil platforms.
- Represented a South American construction company in the execution of numerous settlement agreements with its creditors.
Education
- University Paris Saclay, Master II, Arbitration and International Trade, 2011
- University Paris Saclay, Master I, Private Law, 2010
- University Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, LL.B., 2008
Admissions
- Paris, 2023
- Colombia, 2008
Languages
- Spanish
- English
- French
- Portuguese