Profile

Javier joined Pérez-Llorca in 2015 and is part of the Litigation and Arbitration practice area.

Studies:

• 2016 Master’s degree in Business Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and Universidad de Deusto. Prize for Academic Achievement
• 2016 Master’s degree for Access to the Legal Profession, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). Prize for Academic Achievement
• 2014 Degree in Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• 2014 Degree in Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

He speaks Spanish and English.

Experience

Javier’s professional experience focuses on civil and commercial litigation before Spanish courts, as well as commercial and investment arbitration before the main international (ICC, ICSID) and Spanish courts (CAM, CEA, CIMA).

Javier specialises in dispute resolution in cases of particular complexity and value, in contractual matters (construction and engineering projects, energy, transport, telecommunications, M&A, real estate, new technologies), corporate matters (disputes between shareholders, challenging corporate resolutions, directors’ liability) and insolvency. He also advises on proceedings for the recognition, enforcement and annulment of arbitration awards.

Academic and Publishing Collaborations

Javier regularly writes articles for specialist publications including the following:

• “Sobre la suspensión del convenio arbitral: los efectos del caso David Guetta se extienden a otros concursos”, Actualidad Jurídica Aranzadi, 27 February 2020.
• Contributed to “Arbitraje y jurisdicción: principios básicos y jurisprudencia” (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 25 June 2019).
• “La exceptio non adimpleti contractus y la exceptio non rite adimpleti contractus” (Economist & Jurist, 5 June 2019).
• “Cuestiones controvertidas del cálculo de intereses de demora en litigios y arbitrajes” (Pérez-Llorca Legal Journal, March 2019).
• “The European Arbitration Review 2019 – Spain” (Global Arbitration Review – GAR, October 2018).
• “¿El conocimiento por los acreedores de las dificultades económicas de la sociedad al tiempo de contratar con ella exime de su responsabilidad por deudas sociales a los administradores?” (El Economista, 11 May 2018).
• “Las cantidades entregadas a cuenta para la compra de vivienda” (El Economista, 10 November 2017).
• “Fast Track Procedures: A New Trend in Institutional Arbitration” (Disputes Resolution International, Vol. 11, No. 2, October 2017).
• “¿Existen límites al principio dispositivo en un proceso de anulación de laudo arbitral?” Legal Today, 15 May 2017.
• Contributed to the “Código de Arbitraje”, Thompson Reuters Aranzadi, 1st Ed. (2017).

Javier lectures on the Civil Litigation course for the bilingual Joint Master’s degree in Corporate Law and for Access to the Legal Profession (LL.M.) at IE Law School, and on the Arbitration course in the Master’s degree for Access to the Legal Profession at the Universidad de Navarra.

Professional Organisations

The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA-40).