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Albert BadiaProfileManaging Partner. Lawyer (Spain). Solicitor (England & Wales). PhD in International Arbitration (Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy & Management of the University of Dundee). LLM in Shipping Law (Southampton). LLM in International Trade (Barcelona). Diplomat in Company Law (Barcelona). Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London). He received a scholarship from The British Council and “La Caixa”. In the past, Albert was in-house Counsel of a shipping container line and of a Swiss trading house. He has lived and worked in England, Scotland, Switzerland and Spain. He is committed and dedicated to litigious activity and arbitration. He is member of the Board of the “Asociación Española de Derecho Marítimo”. He is also chief editor of the journal Arbitration Watch. He has published five books and a large number of articles. He is mentioned with praise by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500.Areas of InterestInternational trade: sale of commodities, vegoils and soft commodities, biofuels, steel and crude. He has been involved in quality disputes and other matters concerning letters of credits, collaterals and securities, distribution and agency, etc. He acts in arbitration at Gafta, Fosfa, ICC, CAIP, RSA, etc.
Foreign direct investment: arbitration disputes between States and investors, advise on foreign direct investment strategies, as well as on conflicts governed by bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. Generally, matters of international economic law. He acts in arbitration at ICC, ICSID, LCIA and “ad hoc” arbitrations: “Albert is an expert in the regimes of liability of states and state-owned enterprises in international law.”
Transport: CMR disputes, charter-parties and and bills of lading disputes, ship arrests, salvage, S&P, shipbuilding and repair, collisions, marine and cargo insurance, general average, and casualties in general. He acts in arbitration at LMAA, CAP, etc.
PublicationsBooks published in Spanish and English
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish and CatalanContact detailsEmail: albertbadia@aacni.com
Mobile: +34 667 40 21 10 / +44 7570584706
Daniel BehnProfileDaniel is an American-trained lawyer who is a licensed attorney at law in New York and Washington, DC. He is Of Counsel and works as a consultant in our international arbitration practice. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow on the international investment law team at PluriCourts, a public international law institute at the University of Oslo. PluriCourts is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council looking at the long-term legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Tulane University School of Law, where he was the Executive Editor of the Tulane Journal for International and Comparative Law. He also holds a PhD in public international law and an LLM with distinction in international dispute settlement from the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), where he was the Ibrahim Shihata Fellow in international law. His research focuses on the development of investment treaty arbitration as a form of legitimate international adjudication and how issues of justice and fairness influence and motivate the manner in which international legal orders evolve.Areas of InterestDaniel’s expertise ranges from theoretical issues in public international law to specialized regimes in international law such as trade and investment law, energy law, environmental law, and climate change law. His specific expertise is in international arbitration in general, and investment treaty arbitration specifically. As the last PhD student of the late Professor Thomas Waelde, Daniel has a developed broad knowledge in many areas of public international law and publishes regularly on such issues. He has done extensive consultancy work for the World Bank and international think tanks on issues of international economic law. He is a member of the Yale Law School Society for Policy Scientists and has presented his work or lectured at major universities such as the Yale Law School, Cambridge University, McGill University, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.PublicationsLanguagesEnglish and UzbekLocationLondonContact detailsE-mail: danielbehn@aacni.com
Telephone: +44(0) 2071291271
Fax: +44(0) 8432180440
Mónica ComasProfileLaw degree from the University of Barcelona and qualified in Spain. Master degree in maritime law from the University of Barcelona. She has been in-house lawyer of the general agency of Evergreen Marine Corporation Ltd. in Spain . She is current member to the Barcelona Bar Association and to their Commission of Maritime Law. She drafted her dissertation on the Legal Framework for Yachting in Spain.Areas of InterestMarine insurance claims, transport law including CMR and bills of lading disputes, yachting law, civil liability, tort and contentious work.LanguagesEnglish and SpanishLocationBarcelonaContact detailsE-mail: monicacomas@aacni.com
Telephone: + 34 934 14 66 68
Fax: + 34 934 14 65 58
Elisabeth CostafredaProfileElisabeth has a degree in Economics and Business Management from the University of Barcelona. She has an M.A. from the City University of London and the “Combined Studies” certificate by the University of Wolverhampton. She holds the Proficiency in English language by the Cambridge University. Before joining AACNI, Elisabeth had worked as an external auditor for KPMG in Barcelona, as Finance Controller for a food industry group of companies, and for Société de Gestion Financière et Contable in Gingins, Switzerland.Areas of InterestElisabeth is a chartered accountant. She advices clients of the firm in areas like accountancy, book-keeping and taxation. She has a wide experience in external and internal auditing, as well as in asset management. She also carries out “due diligence” for clients in M&A and other financial operations.LanguagesEnglish,French, Spanish and CatalanLocationLondonContact detailsE-mail: elisabethcostafreda@aacni.com
Telephone: +44 (o) 2071291271
Fax: +44 (0) 8432180440
Ana Maria DazaProfileQualified lawyer from Bolivia, Ana María holds a PhD in International Law (University of Dundee), LL.M in Law and Economics (Utrecht University), LL.M. in Comparative European and International Law (Maastricht University) and a Law degree (Universidad Católica Boliviana). For several years, she was Legal Officer and Legal Director at the national public utility regulatory system (SIRESE) in Bolivia, where she advised on appeals by foreign and national investors, and consumers in the sectors of telecommunications, hydrocarbons, electricity, transport and water supply. Currently, she is a teaching fellow in International Economic Law (International Investment Law, WTO Law and Public International Law) at the University of Edinburgh and couches the ELSA moot court team. She is co-editor of the journal Arbitration Watch.Areas of InterestAna María has extensive professional experience in administrative procedures, dispute settlement and economic regulation of network utilities. Currently, Ana María conducts research on international investment law and arbitration, investor-state dispute settlement and natural resources governance, specially water resources management and water services regulation. She has also a keen interest on the analysis of property rights and expropriation. She has presented her research at global meetings such as the World Water Congress in Edinburgh, IUCN International Conference in South Africa, among others.LanguagesSpanish and EnglishLocationLondonContact detailsE-mail: anamariadaza@aacni.com
Telephone: + 44(0)2071291271
Fax: + 44(0)8432180440
De Souza, Maria IvoneteProfileQualified lawyer in Brasil and Portugal. Doctor in Contract Law and international Trade from the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona. Graduated in Law from the Universidad Regional of Blumenau. Maria is specialized in commercial Law, international trade and civil procedure law. She is licenced to teach all this subjects in higher education .Maria has been a teacher in the Facultad of Dircito of Blumenau and has worked for the Federal Goverment of Brazil and Chambers of Commerce.Areas of InterestMaria is specilized in international trade and foreign direct investments, with special interest advising and consulting individuals and companies with interests in both Brazil and Spain. Maria regulaly advises both Spanish and Brazilians clients in matters such us incorporating subsidiaries, taxation, trade, contracts and immigration and family Items and many other subjects with transnational character between the two countries. Maria is a member and a partner of the consortium of lawyers AACNI, de Souza & Nunes.LanguagesPortuguese, Spanish and FrenchLocationSpain and BrazilContact detailsE-mail: mariaivonete@aacni.com
Telephone: 55 1130422452 – + 34 934 14 66 68
Fax: 55(47) 99914819 – + 34 934 14 65 58
David GatellProfileDavid obtained his Law degree from the University of Barcelona. He was admitted to the Barcelona Bar Association. He started his professional career in the Spanish firm Bartolomé & Briones, where he worked for five years reaching the management of banks and financing. Later on he moved for another five years to the Civil Litigation Department of the firm Ebame & Associats in Barcelona. He has since joined the board of several companies and associations. He currently deals with clients’ instructions and the supervision of other lawyers of his team.Areas of InterestDavid has wide experience in Commercial litigation in Spain. Sale contract, insurance and shipping disputes are core to his daily work. He has also a recurrent interest in bankruptcies, judicial management and receivership, where he acts as Counsel for debtors and creditors on a regular basis.PublicationsLanguagesSpanish, Catalan and English.LocationBarcelonaContact detailsE-mail: davidgatell@aacni.com
Telephone: +34 934 14 66 68
Fax: +34 934 14 65 58
Erman OzgurProfileErman is a qualified lawyer in Turkey. He is a legal consultant and acts as Counsel in international arbitration. Erman holds an LLM with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh and an LLB from Ankara University. He completed his training at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels in 2012, where he researched and wrote on the investment and competition law provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty. Erman is currently a PhD Research Scholar in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) of the University of Dundee.Areas of InterestErman regularly researches and publishes on international public law, international arbitration, energy market regulation, competition law, oil & gas law and provides legal consultancy in investor-State and commercial arbitration (including both ad hoc – UNCITRAL – and institutional forms – ICC, SCC, LCIA), downstream energy law and electricity and gas market regulation, and oil & gas agreements (including oil & gas supply contracts and Production Sharing Agreements – PSAs). He possesses practical insights into sale of goods disputes under the LCIA as well as infrastructure disputes in ICSID and under the Turkey-Italy bilateral investment treaty (BIT). Erman also has extensive practical experience under the corporate, commercial and competition laws and regulations in Turkish courts and administrative bodies. His research focuses on the institutional fundamentals of international investment law (in particular the Fair and Equitable Treatment – FET – standard) and how tribunals approach issues of fairness and consistency in investor-State arbitration.LanguagesEnglish, Spanish and Turkish.LocationLondonContact detailsEmail: ermanozgur@aacni.com
Telephone: +44(0) 2071291271
Fax:+44(0) 8432180440
Borja IraolaProfileBorja has a degree in Law and a Diploma in Economics at the University of Deusto and he also holds a LLM in International Maritime Law from Swansea University. Currently, he is studying a Master in Advocacy at the International University of Valencia in order to become a qualified lawyer in Spain. Borja started his professional career in AACNI Abogados S.L.P in October 2016.
He has drafted his dissertations focusing on the Multimodal Aspects of the Air Law Conventions and also on the Redelivery of the Vessels at the end of the Charterparties.
Areas of InterestCarriage of goods by Land, Sea and Marine Insurance, Charterparties and Admiralty Law.LanguagesSpanish, English and Basque.LocationBarcelonaContact detailsEmail: borjairaola@aacni.com
Tel: +934 14 66 68
Juan Antonio TávaraProfileJuan Antonio has a degree in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru. He was admitted to the bar in Lima (Peru) and in Barcelona (Spain). He holds a Master in Enterprise Law (MDE) at the University of Barcelona. His areas of expertise are Procedural Law, ADR and Litigation.
Areas of InterestBefore joining AACNI Abogados, Juan Antonio had worked for 4 years at the Spanish firm EBAME. He has wide experience litigating in Spain and in Peru, where he acted generally as Counsel from 2000. He has also been part-time lecturer at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP) and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). Juan Antonio is fully conversant acting before the courts in Spain. He has too a wide experience in international and nacional arbitration disputes in Peru as in Spain. He has a keen interest in Commercial Law, Private International Law and Insurance and Re-insurance.PublicationsLanguagesSpanish and English.LocationBarcelonaContact detailsE-mail: juanantoniotavara@aacni.com
Telephone: +34 934 14 66 68
Fax: +34 934 14 65 58
Odacira NunesProfileOdacira has a degree in law from the Universidad Regional de Blumenau– FURB (SC, Brazil). She is a qualified lawyer in Brazil, where she currently practices law. She also holds a master degree in business law, civil procedural law, tax law and labour law. She is specialised in business law, procedural law and civil law. In addition, she is a councillor of the Bar Association of Blumenau.
Areas of InterestOdacira has extensive professional experience in commercial and contractual law. Currently, she serves for the company “Electronic Services” of Santa Catarina, in charge of matters related to civil, employment and administrative law. Odacira is a member and partner of the consortium of lawyers AACNI, de Souza & Nunez. She advises clients of the firm in matters related to commercial law, civil law, contracts and international trade. She also intervenes in international arbitration and mediation procedures.LanguagesPortuguese, Spanish and English.LocationBlumenau, BrazilContact detailsEmail: odaciranunes@aacni.com
Tel: +551130422452
Dolores MirmiProfileDolores has a degree in law from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and she is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association. She also holds a Master(LL.M.)in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). Dolores is specialised in commercial and maritime law.
She worked as a paralegal in the Corporate Department of the largest law firm in Argentina, Marval, O´Farrel & Mairal. As a lawyer, she first served in the law firm “Daglio, Miralles & Mirmi”, advising in commercial matters and litigation. Subsequently, she worked in the law firm “CMMM”, advising on numerous cases, contract drafting and litigation.Areas of InterestInternational trade, carriage of goods by sea, marine insurance and law of the marine environment.LanguagesSpanish and English.LocationBarcelonaContact detailsEmail: doloresmirmi@aacni.com
Tel: +934 14 66 68
