Oliver Cojo

Practice Areas

Arbitration

Career

Oliver Cojo is a partner at Arias SLP. He has served as arbitrator, counsel and tribunal assistant in approximately 60 cases worldwide, administered by leading institutions such as ICC, ICSID, PCA, LCIA and SCC. He now serves primarily as arbitrator in commercial disputes. His practice focuses on construction, infrastructure, energy and corporate transactions.

Professional Memberships

Oliver was involved in the preparation of the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration published in 2014 and is the author of their Spanish translation. He also served as co-chair of the young practitioners group of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club (CEIA-40) and is a member of the host committee for ICCA 2026 Madrid.

Personal

Oliver is a professor of arbitration at IE University. He holds a degree in Law and Business Management from University of Valladolid. He also holds an LL.M. from Maastricht University. He was admitted to the Madrid Bar in 2013.

Work Highlights

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between companies from Spain and Portugal in relation to a contract for the maintenance of an energy cogeneration engine (ICC, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Presiding arbitrator in a dispute between a company and a bank in relation to a loan agreement (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Co-arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to a contract for the installation of a fire protection system in an industrial warehouse (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to lease and franchise agreements concerning a service station (Spanish Court of Arbitration, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to a services contract for the optimization of costs (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to a credit insurance policy (Spanish Court of Arbitration, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Emergency arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to a franchise agreement concerning an establishment in the Madrid region of Spain (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Emergency arbitrator in a dispute between two companies in relation to a franchise agreement concerning an establishment in the Asturias region of Spain (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)

Sole arbitrator in a dispute between two individuals in relation to a lease agreement (CAM, Madrid, Spanish law, Spanish)