Santiago Dellepiane has worked extensively as an economist and valuation analyst, and as a consultant for utilities and regulated and nonregulated businesses.
Mr. Dellepiane, whose work involves economic analysis, valuation, business advisory, regulatory analysis, and damages assessment, is a managing director with Berkeley Research Group and co-chair of its Economics & Damages practice.
Mr. Dellepiane has provided written and oral testimony or expert advice in more than fifty-five cases involving valuation, regulatory, damages, and other issues before the ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICDR tribunals, and before Canadian courts (Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta). In 2016, he led a team of damages experts working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on investor-state dispute settlement.
Mr. Dellepiane’s research on damages in contractual and treaty breaches was published in Oxford University Press’ Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts in 2014. He has also written articles on damages issues published in the Journal of International Arbitration and has contributed to books published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and by ICCA. He speaks regularly at conferences on damages issues. He has been recognized over several years among the world’s top arbitration expert witnesses and as a thought leader by Who’s Who Legal.
Employment History
Compass Lexecon
Executive vice president
2017 – 2018
Senior vice president
2013 – 2017
Vice president
2011 – 2013
LECG
Principal, international arbitration practice, 2010 – 2011
Senior managing consultant, 2009 – 2010
Managing consultant, 2008 – 2009
Senior consultant, 2005 – 2007
Associate & senior associate, 2001 – 2002
Research analyst, 1998 – 2000
Nextel Corporation (through LECG)
Consultant
2002 – 2004
Professional Affiliations
CARA Civil and Social Justice Fund
Member of Advisory Board, 2017 – present
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
Member, 2013 – present
Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Member of Advisory Board, 2011 – present
Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP)
Member of Board of Directors, 2010 – 2012
Lower Manhattan Project, task force with US Department of Energy
Member, 2009
Community/Civic Involvement
Civil rights: advisory in a US court case regarding denial of equal protection and denial of medical treatment, 2015, pro bono
Human rights: advisory in assessment of damages in a matter under the Alien Tort Statute, US Federal Court, 2013-2016, pro bono
