Enrique Ferrando

Osterling Abogados is a leading full-service Peruvian firm, widely acknowledged in both domestic and international markets.  For nearly four decades, we have been delivering legal services on the grounds of a client-centred philosophy that combines proven expertise and an innovative approach, which allows us to offer optimal, timely and effective advice and solutions. 

When it comes to dispute resolution, we focus on our clients’ goals and best interests, working for securing the most favourable outcomes at the earliest possible stages of the conflict, or even once litigation or arbitration has commenced. We are acknowledged within the strongest players in the local market, with a high success ratio at all litigation and arbitration scenarios.

Our arbitration team brings together highly skilled practitioners who are well versed about all edges of the arbitration practice, including local specificities, and qualified for handling cases at the highest level, notwithstanding their complexities.

As a part of the bench, we count on with top-tier arbitrators and legal experts who have been appointed in both domestic and international arbitration processes and are acknowledged as leading members of the most important Peruvian arbitration centres, which is why they are also frequent speakers in lectures and seminars on the matter.

In addition, we aim to become a strategic partner to our clients, helping them to prevent potential risks to affect their operations, implementing new business strategies, or successfully tackling either daily or unforeseen legal challenges.  Thus, we also provide comprehensive advice on corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, (re)insurance, regulatory affairs, labour and employment, taxation, intellectual property, construction and real estate developments, new technologies, among other areas of practice correlating the course of business.

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Managing partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution, Insurance and Reinsurance, and Corporate practices at Osterling Abogados.

Over the last 25 years, Enrique has been consistently featured as a pacesetter in civil and commercial dispute resolution, whether by the main players in the domestic market and international firms seeking top-tier legal counselling in Peru, due to his solid prowess as a negotiator, party counsel and arbitrator.

As a counsel, he has advised domestic and foreign clients in a large number of negotiations, litigations, arbitrations, and ADR processes, both in Peru and abroad. Due to his strong expertise, he is the leading counsel in complex arbitration and litigation cases of some of the most prominent insurers operating within the country; however, he also advises a wide portfolio of major companies from different sectors.

As an arbitrator, he has sat in over 200 arbitrations held before the arbitration centres of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima, the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham), and the Pontificia Universidad Católica, among others. He has been appointed as the Chair of the Panel in up to 100 cases.

In addition, Enrique served as a sitting member of the Executive Board of the Arbitration Centre of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima from 2012 to 2017; currently, he serves as an alternate member. He is also a frequent lecturer at arbitration-related conferences and seminars.

He has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of his expertise by Chambers & Partners LatAm, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, IFLR, LACCA, Who’s Who Legal, and Leaders’ League.

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