The new partner of ECIJA has more than twenty years of experience in dispute resolution through arbitration, commercial and investment arbitration, and as arbitrator before different arbitral institutions.
As part of its ambitious strategic growth plan, ECIJA strengthens its international arbitration department with the incorporation of Margarita Soto Moya as a new partner in the Madrid office, who will join the firm's litigation and arbitration team, which already has 12 partners and 45 professionals in Spain.
With extensive experience in the field, Margarita Soto Moya has specialized in transnational commercial disputes in which she has advised domestic and foreign clients in various sectors (energy, construction, catering, hospitality, infrastructure and real estate, insurance, financial and pharmaceutical, among others), insurance, financial or pharmaceutical, among others) in pre-litigation negotiation processes and arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and institutional, under the rules of different arbitration institutions, such as the LCIA, the ICC, the AAA, the Zurich Chamber of Commerce, the Danish Institute of Arbitration or the CIAM. He has also worked on matters related to bilateral investment treaties, advising large companies, financial institutions and governments.
Throughout her extensive professional career, Margarita Soto Moya has acted as arbitrator in several arbitration proceedings under the rules of the Madrid Court of Arbitration and CIAM, and has also acted on several occasions as administrative secretary in arbitral tribunals under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, CAS/CAS and the Madrid Court of Arbitration.
Margarita Soto Moya is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, as well as of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of CEA Mujeres and President of the Construction and Engineering Law Club.
With a degree in Law from the University of Seville and a diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, awarded by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Margarita has also taught at the CIAMEN Higher Arbitration Course, in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, at the Master's Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at the Higher Arbitration Course at the Madrid Court of Arbitration.
Alejandro Touriño, managing partner of the Firm, highlights Margarita Soto's extensive experience in national and international arbitration: “The incorporation of Margarita to strengthen the Litigation and Arbitration area of the Madrid office is a further step in our strategic commitment to multidisciplinary growth. Her extensive experience is a new boost for advising clients in highly complex litigation and arbitration, in which she has extensive international experience”.
Margarita Soto expressed that she starts this new professional stage in ECIJA with great enthusiasm and satisfaction: “I hope to contribute to the development and consolidation of the firm in the arbitration area, which, in turn, will serve as a boost to the exciting growth project of the Firm. It is a pleasure to be able to face this challenge hand in hand with the dynamic and recognized team of ECIJA, which has received me with such warmth and with which we will undoubtedly achieve excellent results”.
With this move, ECIJA not only adds more than 215 partners and more than 1200 professionals to its global structure, but also strengthens and enhances the international litigation and arbitration practice in Spain.