José María Alonso Puig

Career

José María is specialised in litigation relating to civil and commercial contracts (particularly agreements for the purchase of assets and rights, construction and engineering contracts and distribution, concession and agency agreements); corporate disputes (company acquisitions and shareholder disputes); disputes relating to financial agreements and transactions (loans, guarantees, deposits, etc.) as well as insurance and insolvency.

He has acted in more than 200 proceedings before the various Spanish courts (with national and international components) as counsel for one of the parties; he has collaborated on the Spanish law aspects of proceedings before judges and courts in Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Italy, Israel, Morocco and Australia; and he has acted as counsel for some of the parties in numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

As an arbitrator, he has acted in more than 300 proceedings (either as sole arbitrator; as arbitrator appointed by one of the parties; or as chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal) both domestic (ad hoc, Madrid Court of Arbitration, Spanish Court of Arbitration and Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration-CIMA) and international (ICC Court of Arbitration, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, ICSID and TAS/CAS); institutions of whose respective lists of arbitrators, among others, he is a member.

Professional Memberships

President of the Madrid International Center of Arbitration

Former President of the Madrid Multiprofessional Association (2018-2023)

Former Vice-President of the Spanish Lawyers General Council (2018-2023)

Former President of the Madrid Bar Association (2018-2023)

Member of the Board of Directors of Mutualidad de la Abogacía

Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Justice and Legislation of Spain, as of 2015

President of Fundación Cortina

President of Fundación Antonio Maura

Managing partner at José María Alonso Abogados, S.L.P.

Ex-President of Baker McKenzie in Madrid (2013 to 2018)

Chairman of the Court of Arbitration of the Madrid Bar Association (December 2008 to May 2013)

Chairman of the Spanish Arbitration Club (2005 to 2009), currently Honorary Chairman

Honorary Professor at the Universidad de San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima (Peru)

Honorary Professor at the Universidad de Lima (Peru)

Emeritus Jurist for the Colombian Advocay

Corresponding foreign Academician of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence

Distinguished Visitor of the Lima (Peru) Bar Association

Member of the Advisory Board of the Universidad de Comillas (ICADE)

Member of the Latin American Group of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Member of the Arbitration Commission at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Member of the Arbitration Commission at the International Bar Association (IBA)

Member of the CPR European Advisory Committee

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIETAC)

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Commission (SHIAC)

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the ADR/AAA

Member of the Qatar’s Sports Arbitration Tribunal

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA)

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC)

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Lima Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCL)

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Gipuzkoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Arbitrator of the Spanish Court of Arbitration

Arbitrator of the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (CIMA)

Arbitrator of the Barcelona Court of Arbitration (TAB)

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Football (TAF)

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris (ICC)

Arbitrator of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC)

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the Bolivian Chamber of Energy and Hydrocarbons (CBRHR-CEAR)

Arbitrator of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS/CAS)

International arbitrator at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)

Arbitrator of the International Centre for Settlement of Investments Disputes (ICSID)

Arbitrator of the Centre for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC)

Member of the Madrid Bar Association since 1978

Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of CIARD

Arbitrator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Armenia (AMCA)

Arbitrator of the Arbitration, Conciliation and Dispute Resolution Research Center – Universidad de San Martín de Porres (CIAR-USMP)

Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee of Mutualidad de la Abogacía (2020–2023)

Publications

Edited Books

Memento Arbitraje, Lefebvre, 2020.

El Derecho Español en el Siglo XXI en una Economía Globalizada. Libro Conmemorativo del 50 Aniversario de Baker & McKenzie en España, La Ley, 2015.

Mediación y otros mecanismos de solución amistosa de conflictos, Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, No. 24, La Ley / Iberdrola, 2014.

Arbitraje, Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, No. 6, La Ley / Iberdrola, 2010.

Arbitration and Mediation

“El Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid y los laudos arbitrales ‘contrarios al orden público’: ¿auténtico motivo de anulación o exceso en el control judicial del laudo arbitral?”, with F. Romero, in Spanish Yearbook of International Law 2024 (J. González-Soria, ed.), International Law Association, 2024, pp. 26–45.

“La disponibilidad de la acción de anulación frente al laudo arbitral versus la indisponibilidad de la acción”, with R. Cantarero, in Anuario de Arbitraje 2022 (J. M. Menéndez Arias, ed.), Aranzadi, 2022, pp. 79–96.

“La inmunidad de ejecución del Estado: ¿el talón de Aquiles del arbitraje de inversiones?”, with R. Cantarero, in Spanish Yearbook of International Law 2022 (J. González-Soria, ed.), International Law Association, 2022, pp. 277–297.

“La limitada competencia de la Unión Europea en materia de arbitraje de inversiones (Comentario al Dictamen 2/15 del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea)”, with J. Díez-Hochleitner, in Anuario de Arbitraje 2018, Civitas, 2018, pp. 401–414.

“El requisito de la nacionalidad del inversor en el arbitraje de inversiones: el estado actual de la práctica”, with J. Díez-Hochleitner, in Anuario de Arbitraje 2017, Civitas, 2017, pp. 61–93.

“El arbitraje deportivo, en particular ante el TAS/CAS”, in Anuario de Arbitraje 2016, Civitas, 2016, pp. 266–277.

Comentarios a los artículos 34-39, in Comentarios a la Ley de Arbitraje (C. González-Bueno Catalán de Ocón, ed.), General Council of Notaries, 2014, pp. 665–786.

“Introducción: la mediación como medio extrajudicial de resolución de conflictos”, in Mediación y otros mecanismos de solución amistosa de conflictos, Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, 2014, pp. 5–19.

“Efectos del concurso de acreedores sobre el convenio arbitral y sobre el procedimiento arbitral en el derecho español”, in Tratado de Derecho Arbitral (C. A. Soto Coaguila, ed.), Vol. I, Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje, 2011, pp. 595–608.

“Deliberación y redacción del laudo en el arbitraje internacional”, in Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades (M. A. Fernández Ballesteros & D. Arias, eds.), La Ley, 2010, pp. 131–158.

“Introducción al arbitraje”, in Arbitraje, Cuadernos de Derecho para Ingenieros, 2010, pp. 5–18.

“El deber de revelación”, in El Arbitraje en el Perú y en el Mundo (C. Soto Coaguila, ed.), Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje, 2008, pp. 323–332.

“Arbitration in Latin America”, The Legal 500, 2007.

“El arbitraje institucional”, in Comentarios a la Ley de Arbitraje (A. de Martín Muñoz & S. Hierro Anibarro, eds.), Marcial Pons, 2006, pp. 679–731.

“La independencia e imparcialidad de los árbitros”, Revista Peruana de Arbitraje, No. 2, 2006, pp. 97–106.

Comentarios a los artículos 15-20, in Comentarios a la Nueva Ley de Arbitraje 60/2003 de 23 de diciembre (J. González Soria, ed.), Aranzadi, 2004, pp. 213–267.

“Spain”, in Enforcement of Money Judgments Abroad (Philip R. Weems, ed.), Matthew Bender, 1988.

Insolvency Law

“Normas de Derecho Internacional Privado”, with I. Martínez de Salas, in Comentarios a la Ley Concursal (L. Fernández de la Gándara & M. M. Sánchez Álvarez, eds.), Marcial Pons, 2004, pp. 831–866.

“Los delitos de insolvencia punible”, in Cuestiones Penales en el Ámbito de la Empresa, Manual III, Expansión / Garrigues & Andersen, 1999.

“Las situaciones de insolvencia fraudulenta”, in El Nuevo Código Penal: Delitos Societarios y de Insolvencia, Banco Central Hispano, 1996.

“Limitaciones y defectos del procedimiento concursal español”, in La Empresa en Crisis: Soluciones Concursales (J. Verdes, ed.), University of the Basque Country, 1996.

Press Articles

“La regulación de las sociedades profesionales”, Expansión, 9 November 2015.

“Reflexiones sobre la Ley de Mediación”, Diario Jurídico, 30 March 2012.

“El asesoramiento jurídico se generaliza”, Actualidad Económica, 31 May 2005.

“La perspectiva de un gran despacho”, La Ley (Temas de Hoy), No. 2, 2005.

“El arbitraje permite una mayor eficiencia”, Moneda Única, No. 24, October 2003.

“El nuevo proyecto de Ley de Arbitraje”, Expansión, 21 October 2003.

Others

“La refundación de la Unión”, with M. Gordillo, in Constitución Europea: Análisis y Comentarios por Garrigues, La Ley / Telefónica, 2005.

“Reflexiones sobre el artículo 1306 del Código Civil”, in Estudios Jurídicos en Homenaje al Profesor Luis Díez-Picazo (A. Cabanillas, ed.), Vol. I, Civitas, 2002, pp. 153–172.

Spanish chapter in Neighbouring Rights: Artists, Producers and their Collecting Societies (J. Turton & C. van Rij, eds.), Maklu Publishers, 1990, pp. 103–109.

Languages Spoken

English (Advanced)

Spanish (Native)

Education