OUR FIRM /
Our professional culture strives to maintain confidentiality and total reserve in connection with the issues and matters in which we are involved. In addition, we strive to avoid conflicts of interest in order to work with total independence and impartiality.
OUR
HISTORY
After almost three decades as partner of an important “full-service law firm” in Santiago de Chile, Pedro Zelaya E. decided to create a boutique law firm, from which he could professionally practice law as an independent and impartial arbitrator, hence allowing him to take part in unipersonal or collegiate, national, or international courts. This boutique law firm also aligns with Pedro Zelaya’s interest in serving as an expert in Chilean law – through reports and legal opinions – and ultimately allows him to extend his practice area to matters related to preventive measures and amicable solution of conflicts in complex contracts, mainly in the Latin American market.
ZELAYA ECHEGARAY & Co. WAS ALSO BORN AS A RESPONSE TO THE EMERGENCE OF ARBITRATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS AN IMPARTIAL, EXPEDITIOUS AND SPECIALIZED DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISM.
Furthermore, its creation responds to the increasingly strict criteria and standards of independence and impartiality that the rules, code of good arbitration practices and “soft law” currently require from arbitrators worldwide in order to avoid, as far as possible.
Likewise, and alongside the existence of prestigious international arbitration centers, in 2015 the Ibero-American Arbitration Center (CIAR) was created to administer international arbitrations, mainly between national or resident companies in the 22 countries that make up Ibero-America. In addition, in 2019, the Madrid International Arbitration Center (CIAM) was created, after the three Arbitration Courts of Madrid decided that all international arbitrations under their administration would be administered by a single institution.
Finally, and especially after COVID, arbitration proceedings – in countries such as Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, to name a few – has grown exponentially, as they also have first-class arbitration institutions. For this reason, Pedro Zelaya has joined the main arbitration centers in the region.