![]() | Joaquín Ruiz Echauri Contacto jruiz-echauri@perezllorca.com |
Profile
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri joined Pérez-Llorca in 2020. Previously, he was the head of the Insurance and Reinsurance practice at a highly prestigious international firm.
Studies:
He speaks English, French and Spanish.
Experience
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri has 30 years of experience providing corporate, regulatory and litigious advice for the insurance and reinsurance industry.
During his career he has worked with major national and international clients on M&A transactions, bancassurance alliances, VIF reinsurance agreements, portfolio transfers and reorganisations and all types of corporate matters. In the area of regulation, he has provided advice on product design, contract interpretation, insurance and reinsurance distribution and pension plans and funds. Among the most significant achievements of his work are one of the first cross-border mergers of insurance companies, practically all the VIF reinsurance operations carried out in Spain and Portugal, and some of the most complex transactions in bancassurance and in national and cross-border portfolio transfers.
Joaquín is also a recognised specialist in the field of insurance litigation, as well as in product liability matters. Specifically, his experience covers P&C, PI, D&O, E&O, Cyber and MedMal litigation, as well as claims handling, refusals of coverage, recoveries and actions of all kinds, including arbitration, where he has acted as arbitrator and expert in insurance matters. Since 1993, he has acted before courts and tribunals of all jurisdictions in complex matters of utmost importance for the sector and, in general, for his clients.
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
Joaquín is a professor of Private Law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). In addition, he collaborates on journals and specialised press and has published a wide variety of articles and works related to his practice area.
A list of Joaquín’s research output can be found below:
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
Collaboration on joint publications
Books
Professional Organisations
The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
Chairman of SEAIDA Reinsurance Labour Insurance.
AIDA – President of the Spanish Reinsurance Section.
Member of the Editorial Boards of two Spanish journals covering insurance matters: the “Revista Española de Seguros” and the “Revista Española de Responsabilidad Civil, Circulación y Seguro”.
Recognition
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri features in various legal directories such as:
Awards
jruiz-echauri@perezllorca.com
T: +34 91 432 51 58
M: +34 607 711 962
Paseo de la Castellana, 50
28046 Madrid
Profile
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri joined Pérez-Llorca in 2020. Previously, he was the head of the Insurance and Reinsurance practice at a highly prestigious international firm.
Studies:
He speaks English, French and Spanish.
Experience
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri has 30 years of experience providing corporate, regulatory and litigious advice for the insurance and reinsurance industry.
During his career he has worked with major national and international clients on M&A transactions, bancassurance alliances, VIF reinsurance agreements, portfolio transfers and reorganisations and all types of corporate matters. In the area of regulation, he has provided advice on product design, contract interpretation, insurance and reinsurance distribution and pension plans and funds. Among the most significant achievements of his work are one of the first cross-border mergers of insurance companies, practically all the VIF reinsurance operations carried out in Spain and Portugal, and some of the most complex transactions in bancassurance and in national and cross-border portfolio transfers.
Joaquín is also a recognised specialist in the field of insurance litigation, as well as in product liability matters. Specifically, his experience covers P&C, PI, D&O, E&O, Cyber and MedMal litigation, as well as claims handling, refusals of coverage, recoveries and actions of all kinds, including arbitration, where he has acted as arbitrator and expert in insurance matters. Since 1993, he has acted before courts and tribunals of all jurisdictions in complex matters of utmost importance for the sector and, in general, for his clients.
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
Joaquín is a professor of Private Law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). In addition, he collaborates on journals and specialised press and has published a wide variety of articles and works related to his practice area.
A list of Joaquín’s research output can be found below:
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
Collaboration on joint publications
Books
Professional Organisations
The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
Chairman of SEAIDA Reinsurance Labour Insurance.
AIDA – President of the Spanish Reinsurance Section.
Member of the Editorial Boards of two Spanish journals covering insurance matters: the “Revista Española de Seguros” and the “Revista Española de Responsabilidad Civil, Circulación y Seguro”.
Recognition
Joaquín Ruiz Echauri features in various legal directories such as:
Awards
jruiz-echauri@perezllorca.com
T: +34 91 432 51 58
M: +34 607 711 962
Paseo de la Castellana, 50
28046 Madrid