Kevin Villanueva Sotomayor
Associate
kevin.villanueva@garrigues.com
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Lima
+51 1 399 2600
Experience
Kevin Villanueva Sotomayor is an associate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice of Garrigues’ Lima office.
He has 4 years’ experience as a legal practitioner and specializes in economic civil law, arbitration and procedural law. Kevin has experience in national and international arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc and also in court proceedings, before civil and commercial courts.
He provides recurring advice in legal due diligence processes carried out for M&A transactions, financings and refinancings, bond issues and share issues. His participation in these proceedings consists, specifically, of identifying and assessing the risks involved in potential claims that could be brought to court, or which are already in progress.
He is assistant professor at Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, in the course on the law on contracts. He acted as assistant to the chair in Interim Relief for two years.
Kevin Villanueva Sotomayor is a member of the Lima Bar Association.
Academic background
Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018)
Degree in Law, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú (2019), Magna Cum Laude.
Publications
One of the authors of the following collective work (book): “Disaster Law: Covid-19 – Chapter I: Peru” (2020), with the article “Effective judicial protection in times of COVID-19: observations on the rebus sic stantibus clause in injunctive protection”, published by Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, as part of the Centenary Collection of the Law Faculty of that academic institution.
Co-author of the following collective works (books): “Civil Liability and Non-Economic Damage” (2020), with the article “The cost of life: civil non-contractual liability due to death”, published by Instituto Pacífico); “Paper Justice: Disruptive Reforms of the Justice System” (2021), with the article “The Litigation Market: towards the implementation of private enforcement instruments”, published by Editorial Palestra and Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, also as part of the Centenary Collection of the Law Faculty of that academic institution.
Author of the website article: “Do all great punches involve a knockout? The extinguishing effects of statute of limitations.” (2019), published on the portal Pólemos, of the magazine Derecho y Sociedad.