Silvia M. Marchili

Silvia M. Marchili

Partner White & Case

silvia.marchili@whitecase.com

Silvia M. Marchili focuses on complex international arbitration cases involving investment and commercial claims.  She handles international arbitration and litigation matters involving Latin America and Africa, and a variety of sectors, including oil and gas, power, infrastructure, mining, air transportation, and infrastructure.  Silvia is bilingual and trained in both civil and common law.

With almost 20 years of experience, Silvia represents parties in investment arbitrations before international tribunals under the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention, as well as under other arbitration rules.  In recent cases, she has obtained some of the largest ICSID Bilateral Investment Treaty awards ever received by foreign investors, mainly involving the oil & gas sector.  An expert in investment arbitration, Silvia co-authored the treatise Annulment Under the ICSID Convention (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Silvia has first- or second-chaired dozens of investment arbitration matters against Latin American states and state entities.  In commercial arbitrations, Silvia has represented parties in cases under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC), and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), among other arbitration rules.

Chambers Global ranked Silvia as an expert in dispute resolution and Latin Lawyer selected her as a leading practitioner in Latin America.  Who’s Who Legal-International Arbitration ranked Silvia as a top-ten young leader in the Americas, quoting a source who stated that Silvia “is very smart and has a great ability to discern the relevant factual and legal issues to be able to attack all of them in a very methodical and effective way.”  Another impressed source told Chambers Global: “Her language skills, knowledge of civil law and ability to think outside the box creatively make her the right candidate for the job.”  Most recently, Chambers Latin America selected Silvia as an expert in international arbitration and quoted a source, which stated that Silvia “really knows what she’s doing in terms of strategy and all aspects of the law.”