Dr. Nuñez is an economist with corporate and consulting experience in finance, valuation, securities, and trading. He has prepared expert testimony on valuation matters before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and has advised clients in international arbitration proceedings and in litigation in US federal and state courts.

In the context of international arbitration, Dr. Nuñez values assets around the world, with an emphasis on Latin America, and in multiple industries, including energy, mining, natural resources, infrastructure, telecommunications, paper and packaging products, hospitality and leisure services, and financial institutions, He is also experienced in securities and financial matters. In litigation resulting from the global financial crisis, he worked extensively on mortgage-backed securities matters and developed benchmark fixed-income portfolios to evaluate the performance and suitability of investments.

Dr. Nuñez has in-house experience in the corporate and legal sectors. Prior to joining Brattle, he was a senior consultant with Robins Kaplan, where he advised partners and clients in all phases of financial litigation, including case development and strategy, discovery, depositions, preparation of expert reports and testimony, and trial. Before that, as a senior economist with Cargill’s Global Capital Markets Group, Dr. Nuñez advised corporate leadership on asset liability management, interest rate, commodity, and currency hedging of Cargill’s global portfolio of financial and physical positions as part of the company’s trade and finance risk mitigation efforts. He also has experience developing trading strategies in money, credit, foreign exchange, and commodity markets.

Practices
Education

University of Minnesota
PhD in Applied Economics and Master of Public Policy

Universidad de Chile
BS in Economics

Testimony

September 2016

Florin Dorobantu, Fabricio Nuñez

Confidential administrative proceedings between a national pension fund regulatory agency and pension fund investment managers. Expert reports analyzing the economic rationale for certain transactions in Government securities.

December 5, 2014

Robert Mudge, Darrell Chodorow, Fabricio Nuñez

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Case No. ARB/13/18 (Enel Green Power S.p.A. (“Enel”) v. Republic of El Salvador). Expert report assessing the contingent value of Enel’s ownership stake in LaGeo S.A. de C.V. (“LaGeo”), a geothermal development and operating company with a portfolio of assets in El Salvador, associated with Enel’s rights under a shareholder agreement with the government of El Salvador.