Fernando Alvarez-Perez, Esq.

Business / Contracts, Construction, Copyrights, Debtor & Creditor, Intellectual Property, International, Real Estate, Startups, Trademarks, Trade Secrets (Litigation)

Miami, Florida

Personal Introduction

I'm a Miami native, splitting my time between Miami, FL, and Washington, DC. Since graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 2014, I've focused on complex cross-border disputes, with a special focus on Latin America. After nearly a decade of practice, most of it in AmLaw 100 firms, I established a boutique with two other attorneys, Gateway Litigation.

Practice Composition

Litigation

Education

University of Chicago Law School JD (2014)

University of Miami BA (2011)

Practice Summary

I have regularly represented clients in cases exceeding $100 million in controversy, and I have taken on the largest companies and law firms in the Americas and won. With particular experience in arbitration and litigation involving Latin America, I have represented clients in ICC, ICDR, and ICSID arbitration as well as litigation in federal and state courts throughout the US. I am fully bilingual in English and Spanish, and I specialize in commercial disputes relating to Latin American businesses. Recently, I was honored to be inducted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS (Litigation) - Represent a Colombian television network in an action for copyright and trademark infringement against a multinational television-streaming company and its owners, obtaining a permanent injunction and over $8 million in damages on summary judgment - Represent an onsite-care provider in complex unfair competition and tortious interference litigation against treatment facilities and competing onsite-care providers - Represent a US clothing manufacturer and retailer in copyright and trademark litigation in federal court - Represent a Honduran multinational and related entities in three federal district courts in obtaining discovery in aid of Honduran litigation - Represent five British Virgin Island companies pursuing a billion-dollar claim against the Republic of Ecuador in the Southern District of New York - Represent a North Carolina agricultural products supplier in an arbitration against a Chinese buyer REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS (International Arbitration) - Represent two Fortune 500 energy companies in a $400 million ICC arbitration against construction consortium relating to the construction of a hydroelectric project in the Republic of Chile - Represent US and Argentinean construction companies in $330 million AAA-ICDR arbitration arising out of a mining project straddling the Argentina-Chile border - Represent contractor in letter of credit dispute and preliminary injunction litigation in state court - Represent the Republic of Panama in an ICSID arbitration arising out of the host state’s liquidation of a brokerage firm with claims exceeding $50 million - Represent an investor in an ICSID arbitration against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with claims exceeding $400 million relating to the seizure of tourism assets

Response Time

12 hours

Personal Interests & Charitable Work

Fernando has published fiction in prestigious literary journals, including Bellevue Literary Review and Fourteen Hills. He is also an avid SCUBA diver, weightlifter, and skier.