Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky

• Represented a Canadian mining company challenging Venezuela’s expropriation of a gold-mining project in an ICSID arbitration, resulting in a $1.2 billion award.
• Represented a European energy company in an UNCITRAL arbitration involving a unitization dispute with an African state oil company.
• Represented one of the world’s largest energy companies in a multibillion-dollar ICSID arbitration involving the expropriation of its heavy-oil investments in Venezuela.
• Represented a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest energy companies in an ICSID arbitration challenging Ecuador’s expropriation of its oil investments.
• Represented an Asian state oil company in a dispute over a joint venture to develop an offshore gas field. 
• Represented a U.S. engineering and construction firm in an ICC arbitration involving a licensing dispute with a South Asian chemical company. 
• Defended Hungary against a French investor’s claims under the Energy Charter Treaty. 
• Represented the public works ministry of an African state in an ICC arbitration involving a construction dispute with a Japanese engineering firm.
• Represented a U.S. investor in an ICDR/AAA arbitration involving the sale of Caribbean telecommunications investments.
• Represented a South American government in an international asset recovery litigation spanning multiple jurisdictions.
• Acted as lead counsel to former Iraqi and Afghan interpreters for U.S. armed forces whose special immigrant visa applications had been delayed for as long as six years in a suit to compel U.S. government action.

Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky is counsel with Alston & Bird’s International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Team. 

Carlos represents multinational companies and sovereign governments in commercial and treaty-based disputes around the world and before U.S. federal courts, with an emphasis on the energy, mining, and infrastructure sectors. Carlos recently acted for the claimant in a case yielding one of the largest investment treaty awards ever granted in an arbitration administered by the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) following Venezuela’s unlawful expropriation of a foreign gold-mining investment. Carlos has represented French, Spanish, and UK investors in parallel U.S. federal district court and ICSID annulment proceedings concerning a pair of arbitration awards against Argentina. He also represented a ConocoPhillips subsidiary in obtaining $380 million in compensation for the expropriation of oil investments in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Carlos has also managed arbitrations arising under the rules of, among others, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).

Carlos graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude. He earned his A.B. in international affairs, cum laude, from Princeton University, where he was a Truman Scholar. He is the co-chair of the International Arbitration Committee of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association. 

Languages

• Spanish

Bar Admissions

• New York
• District of Columbia

Education

• Harvard University (J.D., 2007)
• Princeton University (A.B., 2004)

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