About My Work

My background is Shipping Law, holding a master degree cum laude in Shipping Law and Harbour Operations. I have kept a general practice in Spain where commercial and real estate disputes have been preeminent, keeping a record of assisting foreign clients for over 25 years.

Since the end 2015, I have practiced against the campaign to boycott Israel, achieving a number of Court judgements and writs that annulled, and halted a variety of boycott decisions across Spain, on the grounds of breaching public liberties and International Law. Recently, a first appellate decision confirmed a boycott decision to be illegal for breaches of public liberties. These Court successes have been the first outside France —where due to a particular regard to freedom of speech— even an irregular jurisprudence deems the call for an economic boycott a criminal offense.

I hold strong views on free speech and freedom of association. To me, they should be legally unfettered. However, government has not such civil liberties, but powers limited by law. It is the individual who has civil liberties, precisely against the abuse of office.

Since the summer of 2018, I have researched the liabilities of Internet providers for third-party content in comparative law, filing complaints in Spain against search engines when their search results render links to blatantly illegal content according to our domestic law. The reasoning has been developed with care on the free speech and the right to due process of both authors and users of platforms, having shown influence in the practice of content moderation to some of the main Internet platforms.

My work in this field has been mentioned by the Wall Street Journal, and I am glad to way that the legal actions brought on behalf of my clients against the major search engines have been successful, resulting not only in blocked defamatory search results, but in agreements that have influenced the conduct of main U.S. IT companies.

Having researched in depth during the past years the Iran sanctions of the U.S. Department of Treasury and its licensing policies, I now offer legal counsel to Russian nationals who have been unduly affected by bank decisions to block their bank accounts and prevent the issuance of payment orders arising from trade that is not prohibited by measures adopted since February 2022 in the European Union in response to the Ukrainian crisis.

The practice of Law is most of the time, plain work. When done right, it can be dignified. But at times, when justice and compassion are met, the Law can stir the heart of every good man. It is for the sake of them, if there only would be ten of them, that Law and Right find their worth.