Munia El Harti Alonso

About Munia

Counsel

Phone: +1.305.444.6669 | Email: melhartialonso@concepcionlaw.com
Location: Madrid, Spain

Munia El Harti Alonso focuses her practice on complex cross-border disputes. She has significant experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations subject to the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICDR/AAA rules in oil and gas, construction and post M&A matters.

She has advised foreign investors about the federal Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. She is also a teacher of renewable energy disputes at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Munia is a native speaker of English, Spanish, French and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. Her international network and legal acumen ensure that our clients receive top-notch representation with a global perspective.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Complex cross-border disputes

  • International commercial and investor-state arbitrations

  • Litigation

  • M&A

Bar Admissions

  • New York

  • Brussels Bar (B list)

Education

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Georgetown University

  • Master II in International Economic Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

  • Master’s degree in Business Law in Erasmus at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • Licence de Droit (LL.B) from Université Lille 2 Sciences and Technology

Professional Associations

  • Representative for Latin America of the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (YICCA)

  • Organizing Committee of the Washington Arbitration Week

  • Arbitral Women (AW)

  • Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA and CEA40)

  • DC Hispanic Bar Association (HBADC)

  • New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)

Activities and Memberships

  • Representative for Latin America of the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (YICCA).

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the Washington Arbitration Week.

  • Member of Arbitral Women (AW).

  • Member of the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA and CEA40).

  • Member of the DC Hispanic Bar Association (HBADC).

  • Member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA).

Articles

  • El Harti, M; Galindo, A. The Risks of ISDS Cases Brought by Foreign Investors Against the Latin American States as the Result of COVID-19 Measures in Balancing the Protection of Foreign Investors and States Responses in the Post-Pandemic World, Wolters Kluwer, 2022.

  • El Harti, M; Rivas, A. Treaty Drafting and Landmark Cases: Latin American States as Contributors to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System in Oxford Handbook on International and the Americas, Oxford University Press, 2023.

  • El Harti, M. A Report of the Year in Review – the Magnificent Seven, The Journal of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, ITA in review 2021, Vol. 3 No. 2.

  • El Harti, M; Masumi, N. Comment on the China Machine New Energy Corp’s (“CMNC”) decision, Lexis Nexis MENA, 2021.

  • El Harti, M; Herbst, S. The Rise of Investor-State Public Health Disputes: Lessons Learned from the Idiosyncrasy of Argentinian and NAFTA Cases in the Era of COVID-19, Contexto Magazine, N° 56, 2021.

  • El Harti, M; Agutu, A. The Kenya-US Trade Negotiations: An Opportunity to Comprehensively Rethink Treaty Making in Africa, AfronomicsLaw, 2021.

  • El Harti, M. The Case for an EU Protagonist Role on Third Party Funding Regulation” Law and Justice in the Americas Working Paper Series. 11, 2018.

  • El Harti, M. Jurisprudence of Administrative Law. FORUM. Legal and Social Sciences Magazine, Nueva Época, 2015.

  • El Harti, M. Regular contributions to the Wolters Kluwer Arbitration Blog (12 articles) and Afronomics Law Blog (11 articles).