Félix J. Montero

Félix J. Montero has extensive professional experience in litigation and arbitration. After practising as a lawyer for several years, he joined Pérez-Llorca in July 2004 and was appointed partner in January 2008. Throughout his career, Félix’s litigation practice has focused on civil and commercial matters, both domestic and international, as well as domestic and international arbitration. Félix is also a member of the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Group.

Félix has advised on civil and commercial disputes involving, inter alia, unfair competition, agency, distribution, international sale of goods, directors’ liability, challenges to corporate resolutions, condominium law, insurance, energy, construction, real estate and corporate transactions, patents, trademarks, sports law, tort law, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Félix also has extensive experience in arbitration, whether international or domestic, institutional or ad hoc. In Spain, he has participated in major arbitrations administered by the Madrid Court of Arbitration (CAM), the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (CIMA) and the Barcelona Arbitration Court (TAB), involving construction and mediation contracts, MBOs and corporate acquisitions, purchase options, land development, sham contracts, export credit insurance, energy, infrastructure construction, technology transfer and financial derivatives. Internationally, Félix has participated in major arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), primarily involving international corporate law, international loan agreements, turnkey contracts for industrial machinery, civil works contracts, distribution agreements, telecommunications infrastructure construction, energy, gas and oil, administrative concessions and engineering.

Education

• 2012 Master’s Degree in Law, University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) 1999 Master’s Degree in Legal Practice, Carlos III University (Madrid) 1997 Law Degree, Autonomous University of Madrid

Academic Activities

• Civil Procedure in the Master’s Degree in Legal Practice at IE Business School; Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law in the Master’s Degree in Legal Practice at Carlos III University (Madrid); International Arbitration in the Advanced Arbitration Practice Programme at IE Law School; Insolvency Law in the Master’s Degree in Corporate Insolvency at CEU (Madrid).

Memberships

• Madrid Bar Association (ICAM). Madrid Court of Arbitration: member of the Steering Committee. International Bar Association (IBA) (Litigation, Arbitration and Insolvency Committees) and former officer (IBA Litigation Committee). Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA). Former member of the Board. International Association of Lawyers (UIA) (former Secretary of the International Arbitration Committee).

Awards and Recognition

• Chambers Global: ‘Dispute Resolution’ (Band 1). Chambers Europe: ‘Dispute Resolution’. Legal 500 EMEA: ‘Dispute Resolution’ (Leading Individual). Benchmark Litigation: Litigation Star (Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration). Leaders League: ‘International Arbitration’ and ‘Commercial Litigation’. Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader Asset Recovery 2022 / Global Leader Commercial Litigation 2021. Best Lawyers®: ‘Arbitration and Mediation’, ‘Construction Law’, ‘International Arbitration’, ‘Litigation’ and ‘Media Law’. Best Lawyers®: Arbitration and Mediation ‘Lawyer of the Year’ (2022). Iberian Lawyer IP & TMT Awards 2021: Lawyer of the Year, Litigation. Benchmark Litigation Awards: Best Litigator of the Year (2021). Financial Times Innovative Lawyers: finalist, Standout, ‘Most Innovative Law Firms in Dispute Resolution’ (2014) (highlighting a matter on which Félix J. Montero advised). Iberian Lawyer: 40 under Forty (2013).

Publications

• “Interim measures and preliminary proceedings in civil matters” (Aranzadi, 2021), commenting on the chapter “Interim measures and private international law – international trade”. Coordinator and co-author of the “Arbitration Code” (Aranzadi, 2017), a volume compiling and commenting on the provisions and rules applicable to arbitration. Coordinator and co-author of the commentary on Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. Aranzadi, 2016. Co-editor of the 2015 IBA Litigation Committee Compendium on Multitier Dispute Resolution Clauses. “Commentary on the 2003 Arbitration Act” (Aranzadi, 2005), commenting on Articles 6 and 35 to 39.