Aloysius (Louie) Llamzon is a partner at K&S’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices and a member of its International Arbitration group. Dr. Llamzon represents private and sovereign clients in commercial, investment, and inter-State disputes. Having practiced in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., Louie is thoroughly familiar with civil and common law systems. He advocates before tribunals seated throughout the world, involving energy, infrastructure, financial, manufacturing, mining, and construction disputes. He also acts as arbitrator.
Dr. Llamzon was previously a corporate finance associate at a leading international law firm’s Hong Kong office, and an associate at a large firm in Manila. He is admitted in the Philippines, New York and D.C. Louie was also a Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The
Hague. There, he was Registrar and Tribunal Secretary in inter-State, treaty, and contract arbitrations involving States. His public international law experience includes disputes involving land and maritime boundaries, treaty interpretation, the environment, and transnational pipelines.
Louie holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School, and A.B. and J.D. degrees from Ateneo de Manila University. He publishes widely and is a research professor and former lecturer at law schools in Manila and The Hague. His book “Corruption in International Investment Arbitration” (Oxford, 2014), is the leading treatise in the subject. His article “Investor Wrongdoing in Investment Arbitration” won the 2017 Smit-Lowenfeld Prize. He is a frequent speaker, including at the biennial ICCA Congress and the annual meetings of ASIL and the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He is a member of ASIL’s Executive Council.
Louie has been recognized annually in Who’s Who Legal Future Leaders – Arbitration since 2017, which has described him as a “star”, “an expert in international corruption matters relating to disputes,” “a top emerging name in the arbitration space” who “possesses ‘a rare combination of strong theoretical and academic knowledge with top lawyering and advocacy skills”, with a “fantastic Asia practice.”
Aloysius Llamzon, Partner, International Arbitration, King & Spalding LLP
