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Joao is an international disputes lawyer who focuses on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. He is dual-qualified in England and Wales and Chile and acts in disputes under major arbitration rules, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and LCIA rules.
Expertise
Joao advises on international disputes across a range of sectors. His experience includes matters in the energy, mining, transportation, construction, and financial services sectors, arising under investment treaties, free trade agreements, and commercial contracts, as well as arbitration-related litigation.
His wider disputes experience includes cross-border commercial litigation, regulatory proceedings, corporate investigations, and white-collar crime.
Joao also has experience advising on third-party funding in international disputes. He regularly works on matters in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Career
Joao is admitted to practise in England and Wales, and Chile, and has worked in specialist disputes practices in both countries.
He holds an LLM from University College London and an LLB from Universidad de Chile.
Accreditations and memberships
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Young Investment Treaty Forum (Young ITF)
Experience
- Representing a UK national in an ICSID arbitration against a Latin American State concerning investments in the offshore oil and gas sector
- Representing Central American claimants in an investment treaty arbitration against a Latin American State concerning the seizure of productive assets in the offshore oil and gas sector
- Representing a US investor in an investment treaty arbitration under CAFTA-DR against a Central American State concerning the termination of an oil and gas licence and the seizure of the relevant premises
- Representing a Latin American company in an English law ICC arbitration concerning the defective design and supply of a specialist water recirculation system by a European company
- Acting for a West Asian State in English court proceedings challenging an investment treaty award under Section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996.
Publications and media
- Arbitration Act to take effect in August 2025 (Stewarts, July 2025)
- ICSID’s most recent Caseload Statistics reveal trends in geography, sectors and outcomes in arbitration (Stewarts, March 2025)
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