Borja is an associate based in the Madrid office. He has experience acting in commercial and investment arbitrations under several governing laws and institutional rules, in disputes relating to the aerospace, railway, TMT, construction and energy sectors.
Borja has been recognised as a key practitioner in major publications such as The Legal 500, with sources describing him as an “outstanding professional” who “inspire[s] trust“, is “close to the client at all times”, is “impressively efficient and detail-oriented“, “quickly learns all the technical details of both your business and the case and then […] is able to explain them in plain language with an amazing ease“, and has an “exceptional knowledge” about the matters in which he participates.
Borja holds a double licentiate degree in law and business management from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), and he is admitted to the Madrid Bar and to the Madrid College of Economists. He has experience handling contentious work in English, Spanish and French and he also has a limited proficiency in Portuguese.
Borja is a co-founder and member of the steering committee of the Comillas Alumni International Arbitration Club. He is also a co-chair of International Arbitration Seminars and Courses (IASC) and one of the coordinators of the Spanish and Iberoamerican Arbitration Club’s young practitioners group (CEIA-40). At his former firm, he was in the Innovation and Best Delivery steering group for the Continental Europe dispute resolution practice, in the AI in Dispute Resolution working group, and in the coordination of a monthly training for the global arbitration practice’s associates. He writes and gives conferences on arbitration-related topics on a regular basis.
Bar and court admissions
Languages
English
Spanish
French
Representing a major European construction company in its investment treaty arbitration with a Latin American State arising from a “megaproject” to expand a strategic maritime infrastructure installation
Representing an European State in an investment treaty arbitration against a European investor over a failed real estate project
Representing a global aerospace group in over fifteen ICC arbitrations and judicial disputes upon the group’s termination of its relationship with local business partners amidst criminal investigations conducted by the UK SFO, the French PNF, the US DoJ and the US DoS
Representing several members of the consortium for the construction and operation of the Haramain high-speed railway “megaproject” between Mecca and Medina in four arbitrations relating to design services, scopes of works and third-party consultancy services
Representing a Dutch group against a US investment fund in a post-M&A ICC arbitration arising from alleged inaccuracies in the locked-box accounts
Representing a renewable energies IPP in an ICC arbitration against a global energy group over the construction of a PV plant and a subsequent price review of four PV PPAs
Representing an English energy fund against a Singapore-based LNG and gas trader in an ICC arbitration relating to a price review and ensuing termination of a gas supply agreement
- Lic, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE)
- Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), Lic., Jur
- Universidad Pontifica de Comillas (ICADE), Lic., BBA