Hierro Arbitration

In 2015, having garnered extensive experience from more than 30 years of settling complex transnational disputes, Antonio left Cuatrecasas (where he had started the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice) and founded his own practice to focus exclusively on his work as an arbitrator, in both commercial and investment disputes. Over the last 20 years, Antonio has focused on international, commercial and investment arbitration in Spanish, English and French, both in ad hoc arbitrations, including some before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague (PCA), and in arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and other arbitration courts, mainly in Europe, Latin America and the USA. Antonio began his career as a State Attorney, assigned to the Ministries of Finance and Justice, always in the litigation service. He later moved on to the international jurisdiction service for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in his capacity as Agent of the Kingdom of Spain before the Court of Justice of the European Union. During the same period, he was also the Legal Advisor to the Spanish Government during the negotiation of the Treaty on the European Union (Maastricht Treaty, 1992). He later joined Cuatrecasas, where he founded and then directed, for more than 16 years, its Litigation and Arbitration department, made up of more than 260 professionals with 12 areas of specialization, including Commercial Arbitration and Investment Arbitration. He was also the General Director of the firm for four years (2004 – 2008).