José Manuel GARCíA REPRESA

José-Manuel García Represa is a founding partner at Wordstone, specializing in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration in proceedings under the major institutional rules including UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, among others.

José-Manuel’s practice focuses on disputes relating to Latin America, Europe and Africa. He regularly represents clients in arbitrations involving concession contracts, hydrocarbons, engineering and construction, the generation and distribution of electric power (both renewable and conventional), mining, and industrial facilities. He also regularly acts as an arbitrator.

Consistently recognised as one of the market’s leading international arbitration experts, José-Manuel maintains strong rankings in the global Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories. He is consistently recognized in the Chambers Europe, Global and Latin America Guides for his international arbitration expertise, and a client highlights that José-Manuel is “absolutely fantastic to work with; he is diligent and respects timelines. He provides us with excellent work products.” In the Chambers Latin America 2025 guide a client adds that José-Manuel has “a superb command of economic and financial issues related to the arbitration case”. Furthermore, Chambers notes his active role “across the oil and gas, energy and telecommunications sectors” and that he “regularly acts for sovereigns and private investors on investor-state cases across Latin America”. In The Legal 500 Latin America Guide, José-Manuel is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ for international arbitration, with the directory praising him as a “stellar practitioner”, an “excellent cross-examiner” with strong “experience in economics and calculations”. He is also ‘recommended’ in the Legal 500 EMEA guide in dispute resolution: international arbitration. The Lexology Index (previously known as Who’s Who Legal) recognizes José-Manuel as a Thought Leader for arbitration and he is also Recommended in the latest Mining and Construction Reports. He features as a ‘Global Elite Thought Leader’ in construction in the latest Lexology Index Client Choice Report. He is described as an “outstanding advocate” and “simply the best lawyer of his generation”. José-Manuel has also recently been featured in the GAR 45 under 45 2023 directory.

In 2018, José-Manuel was appointed as a member of the ICC Working Group on Climate Change Arbitrations. He sat as Chair of the French Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration club (now the Club español e iberomaericano del arbitraje (CEIA)) between 2020 and 2024.

José-Manuel teaches Damages at Sciences Po Law School (LL.M. in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement), the specialization course on disputes in the energy and mining sectors (Energy & Mining Disputes II) at the LL.M. A.W.Ar.D.S (Assas World Arbitration and Disputes Settlement) of the University Paris II – Panthéon Assas, and Witness & Expert Cross-Examination at the Swiss Arbitration Academy.