MARIA-FERNANDA HIDALGO
Associate
Practice areas
- Litigation
- Arbitration
Education
- Law Degree (LL.B.), Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru (2021) Graduated summa cum laude
- LL.M. in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution (CIDR), Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom (2024)
Experience
- Member of the team advising a Netherlands-based NGO in a transnational claim seeking approximately USD 1 billion in damages arising from the largest environmental disaster in Peru in recent decades. The claim was admitted before The Hague District Court.
- Advised and represented companies in commercial arbitrations conducted under the rules of the Lima Chamber of Commerce, AmCham Peru, CARC PUCP and ad hoc tribunals, in disputes concerning the interpretation, performance and termination of contracts.
- Advised companies and consortia on procedural strategy and evidence management in high-value and technically complex arbitrations conducted under Peru’s Public Procurement Law and its Regulations.
- Represented clients in interim relief proceedings, as well as in annulment and enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards before the Peruvian courts.
- Represented private healthcare providers in judicial and arbitration proceedings involving medical liability claims, securing favourable outcomes through the demonstration of compliance with applicable standards of care.
- Represented a minor in a civil damages claim arising from a traffic accident, obtaining a favourable final judgment.
- Represented a telecommunications company in administrative litigation proceedings concerning compliance with sector-specific regulations.
- Represented companies in constitutional amparo proceedings against judicial decisions and other acts infringing fundamental rights.
- Advised an agricultural company in possessory proceedings (interdicts for retention and recovery of possession), including the successful obtaining of interim relief, with both cases ultimately resolved through an out-of-court settlement.
- Advised a company in adverse possession proceedings over large landholdings, including the design of the evidentiary strategy and the substantiation of continuous, peaceful and public possession under the Civil Code.
Maria-Fernanda Hidalgo Díaz is a Peruvian-qualified lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she graduated summa cum laude. She holds an LL.M. in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London, graduating with Merit, and has further complemented her training with specialized studies in arbitration, administrative law and public procurement, including the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy in Paris.
She has experience in the design and implementation of procedural strategies, as well as in advising and representing clients in civil litigation and commercial and public procurement arbitrations. Her practice focuses on representing companies in complex disputes involving the performance, interpretation and termination of contracts, civil liability, administrative law and constitutional proceedings, including interim relief and the annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards. In the field of public procurement, she has advised companies and consortia in disputes arising from the performance of government contracts, with a particular focus on procedural strategy and evidence management in high-value and technically complex arbitrations.
Prior to her current role, she was a member of the litigation and arbitration teams of leading law firms in Lima, where she was involved in the representation of companies in judicial and arbitral proceedings across a range of matters.
She has also served as a teaching assistant and adjunct lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is a member of the Lima Bar Association, the Young International Arbitration Group (LCIA) and CIAC Mujeres, and an extraordinary member of Ius et Veritas. She is fluent in English.