Emma Morales
Counsel
Madrid
Emma Morales
Counsel
Madrid
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Emma is Counsel in the litigation and arbitration department of A&O in Madrid. She has more than 15 years’ experience advising corporates and financial institutions on a wide range of litigation and arbitration matters in the fields of contracts and corporate law (breach of contracts, directors’ liability, indemnities), competition law (unfair competition and advertising) and banking litigation.
She has broad experience in domestic (CAM, CIMA, CEA) and international arbitration both commercial and investment (ICSID, ICC, LCIA). She has been involved in court trials (before civil, commercial and criminal Courts) and appeals. And she is expert in extraordinary appeals of cassation and for breach of process before the Spanish Supreme Court.
Emma has been appointed as arbitrator in several disputes.
She has given a number of courses and currently she lectures advocacy in the IE Law School and arbitration praxis at ISDE. She has also lectured arbitration at the Universidad de Navarra, litigation and contracts at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and public international law at CEU, having been former associate teacher of procedural law in the Universidad de Castilla la Mancha (UCLM). Likewise, she has given a number of conferences and published several articles and collaborations with Wolters Kluwer, Learders League, El Economista, the Memento of Arbitration and the International Arbitration Review, among others.
Emma is recommended for her excellent work in one of the main legal directories, Legal 500 in its Private Practice Arbitration Powerlist - Iberia Region. She has also been chosen by Best Lawyers in Arbitration and Litigation in Spain from 2016 up to the present. She has been recognised by Leaders League since 2021 as Leading Figure in Spain in International Arbitration.
Related articles
Publications: 29 October 2021
Income reduction for electricity producers: what’s new in Royal Decree-Law 23/2021?
Published work
- New ruling by the Madrid High Court of Justice: Arbitration and Public Policy, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2/08/2018
- The Banking Litigation Law Review, Ed. Law Business Research, Editions 1 (2017) and 2 (2018), “Spanish Chapter”. Guía bilingüe de Arbitraje Comercial y de Inversiones (Linklaters, September 2017)
- The parties’ discretion to terminate a proceeding for the annulment of an arbitration award: recent development of Court rulings, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 7/06/2017
- Medidas Cautelares inaudita parte. Incumplimiento de un Acuerdo de Confidencialidad de un Proceso de Due Diligence, Ed. Wolters Kluwer, Anuario Práctica Contenciosa para Abogados 2014
