Personal bio
Carlos is a founding partner of the Spanish law firm González-Bueno SLP and practice head of the Arbitration and Litigation Department. He is Fellow of CIArb.
He is a State Attorney on leave, a former Director General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and a former Undersecretary of State in the Ministries of Industry and Energy and Science and Technology.
Carlos González-Bueno has extensive experience in international and domestic arbitration, both as arbitrator and as counsel, across a broad range of complex commercial disputes, including disputes with an intellectual property component. His arbitral experience spans more than a decade of regular appointments and includes service as President, Sole Arbitrator, Co-Arbitrator, Emergency Arbitrator and counsel under the rules of leading institutions and in ad hoc proceedings.
Carlos is an international arbitration practitioner as well as a litigator. He has extensive experience in international arbitration, acting both as counsel and arbitrator in proceedings before ICC, ICDR, CIIAM, AAA, CAM, CIMA, TAB, SNA-OSCE and other institutions. He has been involved in commercial arbitration cases across Spain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Dubai, Dominican Republic and the U.S.
His disputes have involved, among other sectors and subject matters, corporate acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, energy and infrastructure projects, engineering and construction, insurance, finance, hospitality, real estate and regulated industries. He has substantial experience in the management of multi-party and cross-border proceedings, in both civil law and common law-facing contexts, and in proceedings conducted in English, Spanish and Portuguese.