Álvaro Nistal

Álvaro Nistal focuses his practice on international investment law and public international law. He has represented sovereign States and commercial entities in numerous arbitrations governed by the ICSID, PCA, SCC, UNCITRAL, and ICC rules. He also has advised clients on nearly a dozen International Court of Justice proceedings, as well as on multiple other international disputes litigated before the International Criminal Court, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a range of UN bodies, and national courts of various States. Mr. Nistal has participated in adversarial proceedings conducted in English, Spanish, and French for States and private clients from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Mr. Nistal also has advised sovereign States, international organizations, and private clients on a wide range of public international law matters, including negotiations of investment treaties, investment restructuring, enforcement of arbitral awards, exploitation of natural resources in disputed areas, sanctions, international trade law, treaty law, sovereign and diplomatic immunities, statehood, land and maritime delimitation, human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and sovereignty issues.

Mr. Nistal is a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London, where he teaches International Dispute Resolution and Oceans Governance. He also has taught public international law and international investment law at King’s College London, SOAS University of London, Universidad Iberoamericana and other leading universities. Mr. Nistal is a frequent speaker at international conferences and regularly provides training to senior public officials and the legal departments of global corporations. He also has published a book chapter on sovereign immunities and investor-State awards, as well as articles on issues such as international dispute resolution, the law of the sea, the international law implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and business and human rights.