A hearing by an international arbitral tribunal in Miami concluded last week on the first claim in the billion-dollar Panama Canal expansion dispute between the agency that operates the canal and the consortium of construction companies that built it. And although those promoting Miami’s growth as an international arbitration hub have repeatedly pointed to the seating of the arbitration as evidence of the city’s growing position in global arbitration, there was something missing from the list of attorneys involved: None of them were from Miami.
The arbitrators for the case were Bernard Hanotiau, founding partner of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels; Bernardo Cremades, founding partner of B. Cremades y Asociados in Madrid; and Robert Gaitskell of Keating Chambers in London.
