Isabel San Martín

Senior Associate, London

+44 20 3880 1540

isanmartin@lalive.law

Isabel San Martín

Isabel’s practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law. She has experience in commercial and investment arbitrations under various procedural rules, including the ICSID, ICC, LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL and CAIP Arbitration Rules, with a particular focus on Latin America and Europe. She has represented and advised clients in a variety of sectors, including renewable energy, oil and gas, mining, construction, and banking and finance. She also has experience in human rights law and other areas of public international law.

Recent publications

The End Is Near: the European Commission’s Proposed Coordinated Withdrawal from the ECT
NICHOLAS LAWN AND ISABEL SAN MARTÍN
In: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2023

Modernising the Energy Charter Treaty – what is the Swiss position?
ISABEL SAN AND LORETTE GIACOMETTI
In: Lexology, 2023

ITA Arbitration Report, Volume XVIII – Issue 13, 2020 – “OGI Group Corporation v. Oil Projects Compay of the Ministry of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq (SCOP)”
ISABEL SAN MARTÍN
In: Wolters Kluwer ITA Arbitration Report, 2020

Recent conferences

IBA Arbitration Committee’s Arb40 Subcommittee – Symposium
ISABEL SAN MARTÍN, Speaker: Oxford-style debate “Wishful thinking or true possibilities: enforcement of awards against sovereign and environmental concerns”
Lisbon, Portugal, 13 April 2023

American Society of International Law – Annual Meeting
ISABEL SAN MARTÍN, Speaker; “International Arbitration: Reforms and its challenges”
Washington D.C., 30 March 2023

Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje – XVI Congreso de Arbitraje Internacional IPA
ISABEL SAN MARTÍN, Speaker: “La corrupción y los proyectos de infraestructura: ¿Cuál es el rol del arbitraje? ¿Cómo afrontar un arbitraje en el que se encuentran indicios de actos de corrupción?”
Lima, Peru, 25 November 2022

Current memberships

  • Member and taskforce leader of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Young Practitioners’ Subcommittee
  • Member of Steering Committee of the British Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEIA)
  • Representative of the IBA Young Lawyers’ Committee in the United Kingdom
  • Member of the 2024 Annual Meeting Committee of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)
  • Founding member of the Comillas Alumni International Arbitration Club

Career history

  • Senior Associate, LALIVE, London, 2024 – present
  • Associate, LALIVE, London, 2021 – 2023
  • Associate, King & Spalding, Paris, 2018 – 2021
  • Contract Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton, London, 2017
  • Research Assistant, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), London, 2016 – 2017
  • Policy Adviser, Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations, New York, 2015 – 2016

Academic qualifications

  • Master in Legal Practice, Universidad Carlos III, 2015
  • LLM, Boston University School of Law, 2013
  • Bachelor of Laws, ICADE – Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Spain, 2013