Alejandro I. Garcia
Associate, Winston & Strawn LLP
Alejandro I. Garcia is an associate in the firm’s London office and focuses his practice on international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration.
Mr. Garcia has participated as counsel in a number of high-value international arbitrations both ad hoc (including under the UNCITRAL Rules) and under the rules of the major arbitral institutions (including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). His caseload has included arbitrations seated in jurisdictions across Europe, Asia and the Americas and governed by the laws of a number of countries.
Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, Mr. Garcia worked at leading law firms in England, Washington, D.C., and Santiago, Chile. Mr. Garcia also worked at the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, where he administered some of the largest and most complex arbitrations filed under the WIPO Arbitration Rules.
Mr. Garcia received his LL.B. from the University of Chile Law School in 2001 (summa cum laude) and he received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2005 (Fulbright Scholar and Presidente de la República (Chile) Scholar).
Mr. Garcia co-authored the first comprehensive book in the English language on the arbitration of international disputes concerning intellectual property rights (International Intellectual Property Arbitration, Kluwer Law International, October 2010).
Mr. Garcia is a member of the LCIA Users’ Councils, LCIA Young International Arbitration Group, ICC Young Arbitrators Forum, Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Spanish Arbitration Club, and the Latin American Arbitration Association.
Mr. Garcia is a panelist (expert determiner) for domain name disputes brought before WIPO under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
Mr. Garcia has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in Thomson Reuter’s Super Lawyers London 2015 and is listed as a “rising star” in the field of commercial arbitration (UK) in the inaugural edition of the Legal Media Group Rising Stars 2015 guide.