Gustavo Delgado Bravo specializes in international arbitration, litigation, and public law.  He has advised and represented sovereign states and companies in both investment and commercial cases and has served as secretary of the tribunal.  He has also been appointed as arbitrator in domestic arbitration.

Gustavo has participated in proceedings conducted under the arbitration rules of the ICSID, the ICC, the GAFTA, CAM Santiago and the Lima Chamber of Commerce, with seats in London, Paris, Madrid and Santiago de Chile, and in a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, mining, telecommunications and transport.

Prior to joining Wordstone, Gustavo worked for eight years in the dispute resolution practice of top-tier international law firms in Paris and Santiago de Chile.  Before that, he served for two years as legal advisor to the Chilean Government.

Gustavo is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chilean Chapter of the Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje (CEIA).  He is the author of book chapters and articles in specialized journals.  Gustavo also has experience coaching students for moot court competitions, currently acting as co-coach of the Sciences Po Law School team for the 2024 Competencia Internacional de Arbitraje.  He was also adjunct professor of Public Law Advisory at the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

• Representing the Republic of Ecuador and its national mining company (ENAMI EP) against a Chilean company in an ICC arbitration arising out of a copper mining project.
• Advising a subsidiary of a U.S. company against a Spanish company in a commercial arbitration under the ICC Rules, arising out of a contract for the supply of electrical equipment for a nuclear power plant.
• Advising the Republic of Guatemala against Colombian investors in an ICSID arbitration concerning the construction of a power transmission line.
• Advising a Bolivian state entity in an arbitration before the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) arising out of an alleged breach of a sale contract for 60,000 metric tons of wheat.

Sciences Po, LL.M. in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement (TADS), 2023

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Diplomado en Litigación Administrativa, 2018

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Licenciatura en Derecho, 2012

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Chile

• Derecho aplicable al reconocimiento de laudos de arbitraje comercial internacional en Chile: ¿La ley o los tratados? – Estudios de Jurisprudencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (year 4, No. 4, December 2023)
• Pendiente un mismo asunto en sede administrativa y judicial, ¿debe prevalecer siempre la competencia del tribunal? Comentario a una sentencia que interpreta el artículo 54 de la Ley de Bases de Procedimientos Administrativos – Estudios de Jurisprudencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (year 2, No. 12, August 2021)
• Public Law section of the Chilean editions of the journal – The Legal Industry Reviews (2020-2021)
• Algunas consideraciones sobre la presunción de legalidad de los actos administrativos en el contencioso administrativo de nulidad y responsabilidad patrimonial – Ius Publicum, Universidad Santo Tomás (Vol. 42, March 2019)
• Justiciabilidad del derecho al olvido en Chile: Una propuesta a partir de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema en casos que involucran información relacionada con procesos penales – Chapter 15 of “Justicia penal pública y medios de comunicación”, Nicolás Rodríguez-García et al. (eds.), Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia, 2018)
• Chile – Chapter 5 of “The Consumer Finance Law Review – Edition 1”, Richard Fischer et al. (eds.), The Law Reviews (London, 2017)

•  Bredin Prat Excellence Grant(2022)
• The Legal 500

−            Recommended – Dispute Resolution (Chile) (2020-2024)

−            Recommended – Public Law (Chile) (2022-2023)

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Chilean chapter of the Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje (CEIA)
• Member of the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA)
• Member of the Asociación de Derecho Administrativo de Chile (ADAd Chile)
• Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitration & ADR Forum (ICC YAAF)
• Member of the London Court of International Arbitration Young International Arbitration Group (LCIA YIAG)
• Member of the Colegio de Abogados de Chile and its Comisión de Abogados Jóvenes