What is the Effect of International Arbitral Rules on the Availability of Assistance in the Production of Evidence Pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 1782? - WAMR 2010 Vol. 4, No. 3

Author(s): 
David M. Orta
Giselle Fuentes
Page Count: 
40 pages
Media Description: 
PDF from "World Arbitration and Mediation Review (WAMR)"
Published: 
May, 2011
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Author Detail: 

David Orta is a Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP
and a commercial litigator and trial lawyer with
many years of experience handling international
arbitrations and complex, commercial litigation.
He is a member of Arnold & Porter LLP’s
international arbitration and litigation practice groups and
devotes most of his time to representing clients in international
disputes. He has a particular emphasis in investor-state
arbitration under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties
administered under the auspices of the International Centre for
Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He also has handled
ad hoc arbitrations administered under UNCITRAL Rules and
international arbitrations administered by the International Court
of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) as
well as the International Centre for Dispute Resolution
(ICDR/AAA). Mr. Orta also acts as lead counsel in international
litigations for U.S. and foreign clients.


Giselle Fuentes is an associate at Arnold & Porter
LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office where
she is a member of the firm’s international
arbitration, litigation, and Latin America groups.
Ms. Fuentes focuses her practice on the
representation of foreign sovereigns in international arbitration
disputes. She has particular experience representing Latin
American sovereigns in arbitrations before the International
Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in
matters filed under the auspices of free trade agreements and
bilateral investment treaties. She has also recently represented a
Central-American state-owned power company in an UNCITRAL
ad hoc arbitration against a foreign investor.

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