##  [Javier Aguado Zarraga](/pt/en_GB/team/javier-aguado-zarraga) 

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 Javier Aguado Zarraga Partner 

 <javier.aguado.zarraga@garrigues.com> - [Bilbao](/pt/en_GB/office/bilbao)+34 94 470 06 99





- Registered lawyer nº 5149
    
    I. Colegio de Abogados de Vizcaya



 

 

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Javier Aguado is the partner in charge of the Litigation and Arbitration Department at Basque Country and Navarra offices. He has more than 25 years of expertise in business litigation, including contractual law, corporate law and insolvency law. Javier has acted before the courts of law and before national and international courts of arbitration . Javier has also wide expertise in criminal law involving companies, in economic criminal law and in criminal law related with labor law. Javier has acted as counsel in cases related to construction and engineering (work disputes and agreements, disputes related to UTEs (specific Spanish legal concept for Joint Ventures), engineering projects, EPC projects, real state, etc.); industry (machine tool, machining, automotive components, boilermaking, metal or other material pieces production, food and wine industry, etc.); industrial services (programming, engineering, acquisition and installation of capital equipment, industrial isolation, maintenance, supplies, logistic and distribution); and distribution (distribution agreements, industrial property, disloyal competence, etc.).

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Javier Aguado is the partner in charge of the Litigation and Arbitration Department at Basque Country and Navarra offices, admitted to the Bizkaia Bar Association (number 5.149).

Javier has more than 25 years of expertise in business litigation, including contractual law, corporate law and insolvency law. He has acted before courts of law and before courts of arbitration (in the Basque Country, in Spain and before international courts of arbitration), and before ad hoc arbitrators.

Javier has also wide expertise in criminal law involving companies, in economic criminal law and in criminal law related with labor law, the latter together with Garrigues Labor Law Department.

As industries are related, his expertise is mainly focused on:

- Construction and engineering: work disputes and agreements, disputes related to UTEs (specific Spanish legal concept for Joint Ventures), engineering projects, EPC projects, real state, etc.
- Industry: machine tool, machining, automotive components, boilermaking, metal or other material pieces production, food and wine industry.
- Industrial services: programming, engineering, acquisition and installation of capital equipment, industrial isolation, maintenance, supplies, logistic and distribution.
- Distribution: with usual disputes regarding distribution agreements, industrial property, disloyal competence, etc.

 

 

 

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Law Degree with specialization in Economic and Business from Universidad de Deusto.

 

 

 

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Javier is lecturer in the MUAA by Universidad de Deusto and Escuela de Práctica Jurídica Pedro Ibarreche (Bizkaia Bar Asociation)

 

 

 

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Bizkaia Bar Asociation (Colegio de la Abogacía de Bizkaia). Number 5.149

 

 

 

 





 

 



 

 

### Services

 

[ **Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration** ](/pt/en_GB/services/dispute-resolution-litigation-and-arbitration)



 

 



 

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