Caroline is a partner in our international arbitration group, based in Washington, DC.
Caroline’s practice focuses on international commercial and investor-state arbitrations specializing in energy and natural resources disputes in Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. She is civil and common law trained and has acted in numerous high-profile claims in English, French, and Spanish.
Caroline is recognized as a leading Latin American arbitration practitioner by both Chambers and The Legal 500. In 2024, Caroline was designated as an “MVP of the Year” in International Arbitration by Law360 (for the second time in five years). She has been recognized as a leading mining lawyer and international arbitration practitioner by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) every year since 2016. Most recently, Caroline was named one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers for her achievements in international arbitration by Latinvex (2025).
Prior to joining our Washington, DC office, Caroline was part of the international arbitration group in the firm’s London and Paris offices. Caroline is admitted to practice in New York, Washington D.C. and Ontario, Canada.
- Advising Crystallex International Corporation in obtaining a record-setting $1.4bn award in compensation for Venezuela’s expropriation of one of the world’s largest untapped gold mines. This is the largest ever ICSID (Additional Facility) awards.
- Advising Tenaris and its subsidiary in obtaining a total of $386m from two awards against Venezuela for the expropriation of its investments in three companies in Venezuela’s steel sector.
- Advising Total and Repsol in a Geneva-seated ICC arbitration in a contractual dispute against Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company, based on the failure by the contractual partner to ensure the stability of a production sharing agreement after the enforcement by the government of a tax legislation targeting foreign investors. The value of the claim is over $400m.
- Advising Glencore International AG in the first ICSID arbitration against Colombia in relation to adverse measures affecting its investment in one of the largest coal mines in Colombia.
- Advising the Karachaganak consortium, composed of UK, Russian, Italian and US international oil companies, in multibillion-dollar UNCITRAL arbitrations initiated pursuant to a PSC and several investment treaties, which arose from Kazakhstan’s imposition of various tax, regulatory and environmental measures impacting the consortium’s investments.
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