Maria A. Arboleda advises clients in complex cross-border disputes involving international investment protections, treaty and contract-based claims, and trade remedies. Her qualification as a civil law attorney allows her to effectively help clients in a variety of matters involving Latin American parties.

Maria represents clients before international arbitration tribunals under various rules and institutions, including ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and CCB. She also represents governments and companies in trade litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and the Peruvian National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property in a wide range of industries, including aircraft, steel, agriculture, forestry, and mining.

Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Maria was an associate at a leading dispute resolution team in a Colombian law firm and a member of a leading international arbitration team at a law firm in Paris.

Maria currently serves as the Director for the Young Forum of the Colombian Arbitration Committee and a member of the board of the Young Arbitrators' Network of the Arbitration Centre of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce.

Maria received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where she was a recipient of the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law. She co-chaired the Columbia Arbitration Day 2014-15 and was a member of the Columbia International Arbitration Academy Board. While in law school, Maria was a member of the Universidad del Rosario's III International Competition of International Commercial Arbitration moot court team, winning best speaker.