Dyalá Jiménez

"She is always ready to get into the details of cases and offers fine analysis." - WWL Global Elite Thought Leader

Dyalá Jiménez is a Costa Rican national and specializes in international dispute resolution. She is an arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc international arbitrations and is a trained mediator for international disputes.

She has acted as arbitrator, mainly as presiding arbitrator, in more than 40 arbitrations covering different sectors, including energy, commercial, infrastructure, and investor-State disputes.

She is a member of the panel of arbitrators and conciliators for Costa Rica of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She also sits on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and on the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS).

Dyalá is recognized by Chambers & Partners 2024 as Band 1 International Arbitrators and by Who’s Who Legal 2024 as a Global Elite Thought Leader. She is the author of numerous publications and has taught in three universities, both in Costa Rica and Chile, where she lived and worked for almost 10 years (2004-2013).

Dyalá served in public office as advisor to the Minister of Finance (2013-2014) and as Minister of Foreign Trade (2018-2020) of Costa Rica.

She works mainly in Spanish and English and is also fluent in French and Portuguese.

Accreditations and Memberships

• Member of ICSID’s roster of arbitrators
• Member of ICCA Governing Board (and of its Judiciary Committee)
• Costa Rican Bar Association
• ICC International Court of Arbitration for Costa Rica
• Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB)
• Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
• International Arbitration Institute
• Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
• ICC Latin American Arbitration Group
• Vice President of the ICC ADR and Arbitration Commission (2017-2018)
• Member of the Board of CINDE, the non-government investment promotion agency of Costa Rica
• CEDR Investor-state mediation training (30 hours) 

Selected Engagements

The following is a selection of cases where Dyalá has sat as arbitrator. It does not include, among others, ongoing cases.

Chair of Arbitral Tribunal

• ICC case with seat in Mexico between two private companies concerning a power purchase agreement
• Arbitration according to the CeCAP Panamanian rules with seat in Panama between a State entity and a private company emanating from a construction contract
• Arbitration according to the CeCAP Panamanian rules with seat in Panama between private companies related to a construction contract
• ICC case with seat in Peru between a private company and a State entity regarding public utilities
• ICC case with seat in Peru between a State-owned entity and a private party related to the petroleum industry
• Ad hoc arbitration with seat in Santiago, Chile, between private parties related to the construction industry
• ICC case with seat in Mexico between private parties related to a supply and sales contract

Sole Arbitrator/Emergency Arbitrator

• ICC emergency arbitration between a private party and a State-owned entity with seat in Panama related to the construction industry
• ICC emergency arbitration between private parties with seat in Panama related to the real estate industry
• ICC emergency arbitration between private parties with seat in Brazil related to a supply and services contract
• Sole arbitrator in ICC proceedings between private parties with seat in Santiago, Chile, regarding a sales and distribution agreement

Co-arbitrator/Member of panel

• CC arbitration with seat in El Salvador between private parties related to the telecommunications industry
• ICSID member of panel of arbitrators in annulment proceedings in case ARB 12/23, Tenaris S.A. and Talta - Trading E Marketing Sociedade Unipessoal Lda. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (resigned after the decision on jurisdiction and before the hearing on the merits)

Counsel

• Counsel to respondent in two related CCA (Costa Rican center arbitration rules) cases between a construction company and a State entity related to two projects
• Co-counsel to respondent in a CCBC Brazilian arbitration rules case with seat in Brazil between two private parties related to purchase of petroleum products
• Co-counsel to claimant in AAA/ICDR case with seat in the United States between an American company and a Costa Rican company related to a sales agreement
• Co-counsel to claimant in ICC arbitration with seat in Spain, in a dispute between private parties related to a concession agreement