About
Brianna is a Senior Associate in Freshfields’ international arbitration group, based in New York.
Brianna is trained in common and civil law and specializes in international law and arbitration. She focuses her practice on disputes in Latin America and has acted in investment treaty arbitrations in English and Spanish conducted under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules. In addition, she is an active member of the firm’s pro bono practice and part of the Secretariat of Rising Arbitrators Initiative (RAI). She previously served as a rapporteur for the ICCA-IBA Joint Task Force on Data Protection in International Arbitration Proceedings.
Brianna speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
- Representing Smurfit Holdings B.V. in ICSID annulment proceedings commenced by Venezuela after Freshfields secured an award of approximately US$470 million in damages
- Representing South32 SA Investments Limited in ICSID annulment proceedings commenced by Colombia after Freshfields secured a precedent-setting ICSID award which granted South32's request for indemnities valued at over US$277.4 million and ordered Colombia to pay historical damages and costs
- Representing Smurfit Holdings in an ICSID arbitration against Venezuela under the Netherlands-Venezuela BIT arising from the expropriation of its investments in relation to the paper-packaging industry in Venezuela
- Representing Eco Oro Minerals Corp. in an ICSID arbitration against Colombia under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement concerning adverse measures affecting its investment in a gold mining concession
- Representing a family of Spanish investors in two parallel arbitrations (ICSID Additional Facility and UNCITRAL) against Venezuela under the Spain-Venezuela BIT, arising out of the expropriation of their investments in the food importation and distribution sector and other measures
- Representing Glencore International A.G. and Prodeco C.I. and Puerto Nuevo S.A. in an ICSID arbitration against Colombia under the Swiss-Colombia BIT concerning adverse measures affecting its investment in the mining and transport sector
Brianna Gorence
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