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Bilbao
+34 94 470 06 99
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Registered lawyer, nº 104418
I. Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid
Mónica Lasquibar is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Department at Garrigues, where she has been working since April 2018. Previously (between September 2012 and March 2018) she was an associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Department at Cuatrecasas. She specialises in the areas of arbitration (with experience both as counsel, and as sole arbitrator and secretary) and domestic litigation in construction, corporate conflicts and disputes arising from the sale and purchase of businesses and companies and in the energy, infrastructure and insurance sectors. She holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra and a Diploma in International Business Law Program from the University of Navarra. She is a regular contributor to the Spanish Arbitration Club and a member of the Garrigues Equality Committee. In addition to Spanish, she is fluent in English and works fluently in French.
Experience
Mónica Lasquibar is a principal associate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice area.
She specializes in arbitration (both national and international) and domestic litigation in construction, corporate conflicts and disputes arising from the sale and purchase of businesses and companies and in the energy, infrastructure and insurance sectors.
She has extensive experience as an investment arbitration lawyer (including arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty) and in commercial arbitration, all substantiated under the rules of the principal arbitration courts (such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the Civil and Commercial Arbitration Court) and related to investments and/or projects located in Spain, France, Luxembourg, the UK, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Japan and the US.
Se has experience as a sole arbitrator and as secretary of arbitral tribunals.
She has also advised and represented multinational companies and foreign governments in national court proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, as well as in court proceedings to set aside arbitral awards.
Academic background
- Degree in law from the Universidad de Navarra.
- Diploma in International Business Law Program from the University of Navarra.
Teaching activity
Se coached classes in Litigation and Arbitration as part of the Combined Master’s Degree in Business Law and Access to the Legal Profession at the University of Navarra between 2015 and 2017. She also led seminars on international commercial arbitration at Centro Universitario de Estudios Financieros “CUNEF” in the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years. And she participated, as coach of the CUNEF team and as arbitrator, in Editions VI-IX of the International Competition of Arbitration and Commercial Law (Moot Madrid) and in the Spanish round of the ‘2017 Philip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition’.
Memberships
- Member of the Equality Committee of Garrigues.
- Member of the Madrid Bar Association .
- Member of Spanish Arbitration Club.
Publications
Numerous articles and publications, including most notably the article entitled ‘Preliminary Criminal Rulings in International Commercial Arbitration: a Reflection on the Important Judgment of the Madrid Provincial Appellate Court of February 23, 2011’ (*) published in Edition III of the Young Arbitration Magazine (2016); and the article 'Construction ADR Guide – “Spain Chapter”’ of the IBA International Construction Projects Committee (July 2014).