Gabriela Lopez Stahl

Gabriela Lopez Stahl represents and advises companies and sovereign states in international arbitration and mediation. Her practice focuses on investment treaty and commercial arbitration, as well as public international law.

Gabi represents clients in international arbitrations before major arbitral institutions and in ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL rules.  She has experience in many industries and core sectors, including energy, mining, technology, and industrial and real estate development.

Gabi is a Regional Representative for North America for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Young Arbitration and ADR Forum.  She is actively involved in California's international arbitration community and in efforts to promote the growth of international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution in California.  She is a founding member of California Arbitration (CalArb) and a member of Young CalArb's Steering Committee.

Gabi is a guest lecturer in USC Gould School of Law's externship program.  She also frequently speaks, publishes, and organizes programs on issues of international law and international dispute resolution.  

Before moving to Los Angeles, Gabi practiced for five years in the firm's Washington, DC office.

At Columbia Law School, Gabi was Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and Editor of the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy. She also worked for two years as a Research Assistant to Professor George A. Bermann, Chief Reporter of the Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration.