Practices and Sectors

• Arbitration
• Litigation

Profile

Fernando Bedoya has been partner of Pérez-Llorca’s Litigation and Arbitration practice since January 2018. He joined Pérez-Llorca in 2009, after several years of experience at an international law firm.

Studies:

• 2012 Master’s degree in Procedural Law (LL.M.), Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• 2005 Degree in Business Administration, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid (ICADE E3)
• 2004 Degree in Law, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid (ICADE E3)

He speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.

Experience

Fernando is an expert in the resolution of particularly large and complex civil and commercial disputes. He represents clients before the Spanish ordinary courts as well as before the main international (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL) and Spanish (CAM, CIMA, CEA) courts of arbitration.

He specialises in investment arbitration, contractual disputes (engineering and construction projects, energy and real estate), directors’ liability, corporate disputes, post-M&A disputes and damages arising from infringements of competition law.

Fernando is also an arbitrator and active member of the Spanish Arbitration Club, where he was coordinator of the club’s under 40 section (CEA-40). He was also a member of the Co-Chairs Circle, an association which connects representatives of the main arbitration associations across the world.

Academic and Publishing Collaborations

​​​​​​​​​​​Fernando is Professor of Civil Litigation at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and of Arbitration at Universidad de Navarra. He also regularly participates as a moderator or speaker at international conferences and seminars on these areas.

He has written several articles for legal journals and specialist publications. In 2017, he coordinated the new edition of the “Spanish Arbitration Code” (Código de Arbitraje) published by Aranzadi.

Professional Organisations

The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).

Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA).

ICADE Business Club.

Recognition

Fernando Bedoya features in various legal directories such as:

• Leaders League: ‘International Arbitration 2022’.
• Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration Future Leaders – Partners 2022.
• Best Lawyers®: Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation and International Arbitration.

Awards

• Iberian Lawyer: 40 under Forty ‘Lawyer of the Year in Arbitration’ (2020).