Mariana Gómez-Vallin
Associate

Phone:+52 (55) 5258-1018
mgomez@vwys.com.mx

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Phone:+52 (55) 5258-1018
mgomez@vwys.com.mx

  • Practices
  • Industry Groups
  • Education & Experience
    • Master of Law (LL.M.), International Law, University of Cambridge, England.
    • LL.M. Liaison Officer, Graduate Law Society of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, England.
    • Academic exchange, Stockholm University, Sweden.
    • Head coach of the team representing Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the investment arbitration competition Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot).
    • Law Degree (J.D.), with honors, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
  • Affiliations & Academic Activities
    • Member of ArbitralWomen, since 2022.
    • Member of the International Law Association (ILA), since 2022.
    • Member of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB), since 2022.
    • Member of the Young Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Young ITA), 2022.
    • Member of the Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration (YIAG LCIA), since 2022.
    • Head coach of the representative team of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (FDI Moot), since 2022.
    • Member of the Young International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Young ICSID), since 2018.
    • Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF), since 2018.
    • Member of the Translations Committee of the Arbitration and ADR Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce Mexico, since 2017.
    • Coach and participant of the representative team of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the international commercial arbitration competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, 2010-2014.
  • Languages
    • Spanish and English.
  • Mariana is an associate of Von Wobeser y Sierra. She has more than eight years of experience in the practices of international dispute resolution, international investment law, international commercial law and public international law, applied mainly in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. Her practice centers on the representation of States and state entities, as well as investors in arbitral proceedings before the most important institutions such as ICSID, PCA, ICC and UNCITRAL mainly in the sectors of energy, oil and gas. She has also participated as assistant of the tribunal in institutional arbitrations conducted under ICSID, PCA and ICC.


    Before joining the firm, Mariana worked in the international firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in the practice groups of international arbitration and public international law, assisting in the representation of States and state entities in disputes. She also worked in the Mexican firm Creel, García-Cuellar, Aiza y Enríquez in the groups of arbitration and dispute resolution, assisting in the representation of claimants in international disputes and as assistant of arbitral tribunals in arbitral proceedings.