Aníbal Martín Sabater

Significant first chair experience from the last few years includes:

• Acting for the contractor in an AAA arbitration concerning the construction of a power plant.
• Acting for the off-taker in an ICC arbitration concerning claims for breach of a long-term LNG supply agreement.
• Acting for the lessor in an ICC arbitration concerning claims for breach of a lease of power generation equipment.
• Acting for the seller in a post M&A arbitration concerning a large infrastructure project.
• Acting for the seller in a post-M&A ICC arbitration concerning the performance of several photovoltaic plants in Mexico.
• Acting for parties in 3 unrelated ICC cases concerning defective product claims (in two of the cases, Aníbal acted for the buyer, in one of them for the manufacturer).
• Acting for the claimant in ICSID Case No. ARB/21/28  (APM Terminals Callao S.A. v. Republic of Peru), concerning the construction and operation of a port terminal in Callao.
• Acting for the owner of a photovoltaic plant in an ICDR construction arbitration against the balance of plant contractor.
• Acting in ICC DAB proceedings against the contractor concerning the construction of the (at the time) largest windfarm in the Americas. Acting for the same client in an ICC arbitration instituted by the contractor to challenge the outcome of the DAB proceedings.
• Acting for the Respondent/Counterclaimant in ICC Case No. 23247/MK (Cobra Thermosolar Plants, Inc. v Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC) concerning the construction of the (at the time) largest concentrated solar power plant in the world.
• Acting for the lender in two related ICC arbitrations over defaults to loans for the development of an agrarian project in the Americas.
• Acting for the owner of 5 power plants in the Americas in an ICC arbitration instituted by a key contractor.

Less recently, Aníbal also acted for a US oil services company in a dispute against an Eurasian state-owned entity in an ICDR arbitration; as part of this representation, Aníbal successfully argued one of the first emergency relief applications ever granted in the ICDR system.

• “Incredible Witnesses:  A Look at the Main Reasons Why Tribunals Do Not Believe Some Testimony,” Harvard International Law Students Association Review (2026).
• “Logic and Fallacies in International Arbitration,” An Arbitration Companion: Liber Amicorum for Michael Lee (2026).
• “Optional Provisions for the Terms of Reference and Procedural Order No. 1,” ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin(December 2023).
• “The Decalogue to Work with Cocounsel“ in “Surviving in the Field of International Arbitration: War Stories and Lessons Learned (English & Spanish-Bilingual Book),” Wolters Kluwer (September 2020).