Raul Pereira-Fleury | Page 5 | ArbitrationLaw.com

Address:

Av. Santa Teresa 2106, Torres del Paseo, Torre 1, Piso 25
Asuncion, Paraguay 1816

Phone Number:

+595213183000

Fax Number:

+595213183113

Email:

rapereira@ferrere.com

Born:

1987, Asuncion

Languages:

Spanish Portuguese English

Nationalities:

Paraguayan

Brazilian

Education:

Universidad Catolica de Asuncion, Abogado (2012)

American University Washington College of Law, LLM (2015)

Bar Admission or Professional License:

Paraguay, 2013

Present Position:

Senior Associate, Ferrere

Professional Experience:

International Arbitration Trainee, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Paris);
Associate, Fiorio Cardozo & Alvarado (Asunción)

Professional Associations:

Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Assistant Editor – ITA in Review); Arbitrator Intelligence (LatAm Ambassador); ERA Pledge (LatAm Committee); ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR; LCIA Young International Arbitration Group; Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center – Young Professionals Group.

Arbitration Experience:

Acted as counsel in a number of commercial and investment arbitrations under the arbitration rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, CRCICA, DIS, and the Paraguayan Arbitration and Mediation Center, relating to different areas of law and industries, such as oil & gas, renewable energy, intellectual property, and corporate transactions.

Areas of Specialization:

International Arbitration

Commodities - Grains

Distribution

Licensing

Franchise Law

International Commercial Transactions

Public International Law

Publications from JURIS:

Publications:

Estándar de revisión de cláusulas arbitrales. La experiencia paraguaya, Transnational Dispute Management (March 19, 2019)
Paraguayan Court of Appeal Recognizes Arbitrators’ Powers to Decide Issues of Illegality and Corruption, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (December 2018)
Closing the umbrella: a dark future for umbrella clauses?, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (October 2017)
Anti-suit Injunctions en favor del Arbitraje: Protegiendo la jurisdicción arbitral, 3 Revista Paraguaya de Derecho, Economía y Política (September 2017)

Colombian Supreme Court Draws on the Different Standards of Review when Challenging the Independence and Impartiality of an Arbitrator in Domestic and International Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (September 2017)
Eiser Infrastructure v. Spain: Could the tide be turning in favor of photovoltaic foreign investors in Spain?, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (June 2017)
State Succession and BITs: Challenges for Investment Arbitration, 27(4) Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 451 (2017)

Brazil’s STJ frames franchising agreements as “adhesion contracts” and admits prima facie pathological clauses as exception to the Competence-Competence Principle, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (December 2016)
FCPA, UKBA, and International Arbitration: Dealing with Corruption in Latin America, TDM 2 Special Issue on Latin America (2016)

Umbrella Clauses: A Trend towards its Elimination, 31(4) Arb. Int’l (2015)

Do Arbitrators have an ex officio duty/right to self-investigate corruption?, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (November 2015)