Ignacio Torterola, Argentina’s former ICSID liaison, joins Gomm & Smith, now branded as GST LLP and expanding its practice to Washington, D.C., where Torterola will be based. He joins Argentine colleague Diego Gosis there, and he brings three substantial treaty arbitration cases with him, for which he acts on behalf of Venezuela. Torterola spent nine years at Argentina’s Treasury Attorney General’s Office and five years heading the state’s ICSID office in the Argentine Embassy in Washington.