E. Eduardo Méndez

• Represents an American renewable energy company in an ICC construction arbitration dispute in Mexico City over Balance of Plant and Wind Turbine Generator defects in a wind farm.
• Represented a British hospitality company in an ICDR commercial arbitration dispute in Texas over outstanding payments related to a marketing agreement performed in jurisdictions of Central America and in Florida, U.S.A.*
• Represented a regional pharmaceutical company in an ICC commercial arbitration dispute in San José, Costa Rica, over the termination of a distribution agreement performed in multiple jurisdictions of Latin America.*
• Represented a Spanish company in an ICC construction arbitration dispute in San José, Costa Rica, over delays in the construction of a geothermal plant in Costa Rica.*
• Represented a Spanish company’s subsidiary in a CFIA construction arbitration dispute in Costa Rica over an increase in the construction costs of a petroleum plant in Costa Rica.*
• Represented an American company’s subsidiary in a CICA arbitration dispute in Costa Rica over damages in relation to the lease of a university campus.*

*Experience prior to joining Chaffetz Lindsey LLP.

• “Costa Rica’s Adhesion to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: A Challenging Step Toward the Development of Costa Rican International Commerce” (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VI. Ed. (I Sem. 2017), author (June 29, 2017), 06-16. Available here.
• “World Universities Comparative Law Project Legal Rating of Costa Rica”, Allen & Overy Global Law Intelligence Unit, World Universities Comparative Law Project, author, Juan Ignacio Rodríguez et al (November 2017). Available here and here.
• “Online Dispute Resolution for Cross-Border Electronic Commerce: The Smart Contract as an Alternative for the Enforcement of Awards” (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VII. Ed. (II Sem. 2017), author (December 23, 2017), 06-25. Available here.
• Interview to Evan Wolfson (Founder of Freedom to Marry), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VII. Ed. (II. Sem. 2017), interviewer (December 23, 2017), 103-118.
• Interview to Víctor Madrigal Borloz (Independent Expert of the United Nations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VII. Ed. (II. Sem. 2017), co-interviewer (December 23, 2017), 119-128.
• “Applicability of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods to the Resolution of Disputes Related to Contracts for the International Sale of Software” (original in Spanish), Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, author, Graduate Thesis, Licentiate in Law, (March 22, 2018). Available here.
• “Current and Future Outlook of Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration: Implementations, Obstacles, and Legal Considerations” (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional. VIII. Ed. (I Sem. 2018), author (July 8, 2018), 06-24. Available here.
• Interview to Gary B. Born (international arbitrator and partner at Wilmer Hale Pickering Dorr, LLP), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VII. Ed. (I. Sem. 2018), co-interviewer (July 8, 2018), 97-116.
• “Entry into Force of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods” (original in Spanish), CR Hoy, author (September 3, 2018). Available here.
• “The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts: Benefits for Costa Rica in Case of Adhesion” (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, IX. Ed. (II Sem. 2018), author (January 8, 2019), 06-28. Available here.
• Interview to Dyalá Jiménez Figueres (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Costa Rica), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, IX. Ed. (II Sem. 2018), co-interviewer (January 8, 2019), 138-145.
• “Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration” (original in Spanish), LexLatin (June 13, 2019). Available here.
• Interview to Colin Rule (Vicepresident of Online Dispute Resolution at Tyler Technologies, Former Director of the Online Dispute Resolution Platform at eBay and PayPal), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, X. Ed. (I Sem. 2020), co-interviewer (11 March 2020), 101-113.
• Interview to Alfredo Bullard González (international arbitrator and partner at Bullard Falla Ezcurra), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, X. Ed. (I Sem. 2020), co-interviewer (11 March 2020), 114-123.
• “Contracts, negotiation and enforcement in Costa Rica: overview”, Thomson Reuters Practical Law, co-author, Julio Castellanos Villanueva (November 01, 2020). Available here.
• “Cybersecurity in digitized arbitrations: risks, responsibilities, and answers” (original in Spanish), in the book Arbitration and New Technologies (Volume II), Themis Editorial Jurídica, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, co-author, Felipe Volio Soley (March 2021). Available here.
• Costa Rica’s Adhesion to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: A Challenging Step Toward the Development of Costa Rican International Commerce (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VI. Ed. (I Sem. 2017), 06-16. Available here.
• Online Dispute Resolution for Cross-Border Electronic Commerce: The Smart Contract as an Alternative to the Judicial Enforcement of Awards (original in Spanish), Revista Costarricense de Derecho Internacional, VII. Ed. (II Sem. 2017), 06-25. Available here.
• Interview to Clément Nyaletsossi Voule (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association), International Bar Association Litigation Committee Newsletter, co-interviewer (28 April 2023).
• “United States Court of Appeals to Decide Whether a Federal Court May Vacate an International Award Based on Grounds Not Found in the New York Convention”, Young ITA Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 2, author (Spring 2023), 9-10.

• Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje (Spanish and Iberoamerican Arbitration Club), Member