Specialised in arbitration, complex litigation, corporate and finance matters, restructuring and insolvency.
Arbitrator or counsel in numerous domestic and international arbitrations, mainly in disputes relating to M&A, joint ventures, gas, construction, hotels, ICT, financial instruments, etc.
Vice-president of the Spanish Court of Arbitration (Corte Española de Arbitraje). President of the Commission of corporate arbitration of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club (Club Español e Iberomericano del Arbitraje, CEIA). Member of the Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris (ICC), the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (Corte Civil y Mercantil de Arbitraje, CIMA), the Court of Arbitration of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Servicios de Madrid) and the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Centro de Arbitragem Comercial da Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa).
Member of the academic council of Fundación para la Investigación sobre el Derecho y la Empresa (FIDE), Madrid.
Professor of Corporate Law, ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid (until the 2016-17 academic year).
Professor of insolvency law, FIDE (2008-14).
Fellow of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, School of Law, the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University (2007-08).
Member of the group of legal experts that drafted the EU Commission “Study on the conditions of claims for damages in case of infringement of EC competition rules” (2004) and of the ICC Task Force on private enforcement of antitrust law (2018-2021).
Advanced Studies (“Determination of the purchase price of a company. Arbitration, third party determination and other related institutions”), ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid.
European Advanced Legal Studies, College of Europe, Bruges.
Law and Economics, ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid.
Previously
Member of the board of directors of the Spanish Arbitration Club (now, Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club).
Secretary to the board of directors and to the executive, the appointments and remuneration and the audit committees of the Spanish listed company Tecnocom Telecomunicaciones y Energía.
Partner, head of corporate and restructuring and co-head of litigation and arbitration in Ashurst LLP.
Secretary to the board of directors, head of the legal departments and manager of relations with the Parliament of Grupo RTVE-Radio Televisión Española.
Associate and partner in Melchor de las Heras (now, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo).