Santiago Zalazar is a member of Covington’s International Arbitration and Disputes practice and the founder and co-lead of the firm’s Space Initiative. He has a decade of experience representing sovereign States and domestic and foreign corporations in investor-State and international commercial arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, ICDR, and AAA rules, seated in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, and in related multi-jurisdictional litigation in US federal and state courts. He is a native Spanish speaker and works extensively on Latin American matters. He has advised companies on FCC licensing and spectrum regulation, bankruptcy, anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and national security laws.
Santiago maintains a robust pro bono practice, advising clients on public international law, immigration, housing, and tax matters, and he has been consistently recognized by the District of Columbia for his pro bono services.
Santiago speaks regularly on international arbitration and space disputes at conferences and universities. He also coaches and judges in student moot competitions.
Prior to practicing law, Santiago worked for the Organization of American States (OAS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, DC, where he coordinated the government relations strategy of the Congressional and International Legal Affairs Unit, for which he served as a liaison to the US Congress for almost six years.
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