Santiago Dellepiane

Managing Director

Santiago Dellepiane is a managing director with Berkeley Research Group and co-chair of its international arbitration practice. He has worked extensively as an economist and valuation analyst and as a consultant for utilities and regulated and nonregulated businesses. His work involves economic analysis, valuation, business advisory, regulatory analysis, and damages assessment.

Mr. Dellepiane has provided written and oral testimony or expert advice in more than sixty-five matters involving valuation, regulatory, damages, and other issues before ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and ICDR tribunals; before Canadian courts (Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta); and before US federal courts.

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 (2014). He also has written articles on damages issues published in the Journal of International Arbitration (JOIA) and contributed to books published by National Autonomous University of Mexico and by ICCA.

Mr. Dellepiane 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 Global Elite 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