Claudia Benavides heads the Litigation and Arbitration practice in the Bogotá office of Baker & McKenzie. She has extensive experience in transnational litigation, acting for national and foreign corporations in disputes involving complex contractual and non-contractual claims. Claudia Benavides has represented clients before courts and arbitral tribunals in different types of commercial disputes, as well as in controversies involving distributorship agreements, unfair competition, insurance and real estate, amongst others. She is currently a listed, authorized Secretary for the arbitral tribunals of the Center of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá.