The Corruption Defense in Investment Arbitration: Case Law, Policy Implications and Judicial Behavior with Agustin G. Sanz of Three Crowns
Room IV
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Agustin Sanz is Counsel at Three Crowns. He has extensive experience in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations involving disputes in a broad range of sectors, including oil & gas, energy, water treatment, technology, public works, sovereign debt, and agribusiness, also advising clients in connection with settlement and post-award agreements arising from investment and commercial disputes, as well as local proceedings in Latin America. He also regularly advises sovereigns, international organizations, and multinational companies on questions of public international law, including with regard to border disputes and shared natural resources management.
Before joining Three Crowns, Agustin was a foreign associate in another leading international arbitration practice and a senior associate at two of Argentina’s leading firms. He also worked as an attorney-adviser within the Ministry of Economy as well as the Federal Communications Commission in Argentina, in addition to serving in teaching roles at Universities in Argentina and the U.S. The Legal 500 has ranked Agustin as a ‘rising star’ with ‘a great capacity to understand other jurisdictions in detail’.
Agustin earned a JD from the University of Buenos Aires, an LL.M. from the University of Chicago, and is currently completing his doctoral thesis for a J.S.D. degree from the University of Chicago, where he was a Fellow-in-Residence before joining Three Crowns.