Luis Capiel is a partner at Arias SLP with 20 years of experience in international arbitration, working with leading law firms across Europe and Latin America.
He has served as arbitrator and counsel in numerous international arbitrations under a variety of applicable domestic laws, administered by the major arbitral institutions in Europe and the Americas, including the ICC, ICSID, PCA, ICDR, the Swiss Arbitration Centre, CIIAM and DIS. He has focused his practice on complex disputes in the engineering & construction, infrastructure and energy (renewables and Oil & Gas) industries.
He is ranked in international arbitration and dispute resolution in leading international legal publications and directories including Chambers and Partners and Lexology/Who’s Who Legal.
Luis is a member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre and of its Special Committee. He is also a member of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club and director of its journal, Iurgium.
He has been an honorary professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and guest lecturer and speaker at universities and conferences. He holds a law degree from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and an LL.M. (First Class Honours) from The University of Auckland. He was admitted to the Munich Bar in 2007 and to the Madrid Bar in 2008.
Luis speaks Spanish, English and German, and reads French and Portuguese.
