Born: Barcelona, 1972.

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Education:

• Degree in Law from the University of Barcelona, 1995
• 1996-1999, intern in the University Professor Training program (Ministry of Science and Education). Civil Law Department of the University of Barcelona; varied academic work and research in the field of civil law
• 1996-1998 Doctorate. Certificate of proven research experience. Field: Civil Law
• During the academic year 1999-2000, he qualified as LL.M at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany)
• Admitted to the Barcelona Bar in 2001
• Substitute judge in the l’Hospitalet de Llobregat y Vic Courts of First Instance, 2001-2002

Areas:

• Civil litigation
• International litigation
• Construction and property law
• Catalonian civil law
• Insolvency law

Specialised practice areas:

• Advising on various types of conflicts arising from corporate transactions, director liability, and termination of distribution, agency and civil liability contracts.
• Credit recovery and enforcement proceedings
• Credit defence in insolvency proceedings
• Lawsuits arising from construction defect liability
• Specialised advising on areas relating to Catalonian civil law

Publications/Conferences:

He has participated in various conferences and is the author of numerous publications on Civil Law matters.

• “Notes sobre la supressió de la constitució de servituds per destinació del pare de familia i la seva posible relació amb la servitud de propietari”, Materials de les X Jornades de Dret català a Tossa, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, (2000)
• “La servidumbre de propietario”. Marcial Pons, Madrid, Barcelona, (2000)
• María Esperança Ginebra Molins and Iván Mateo Borge, “Sobre la computación del ius delationis en los supuestos de transmisión de la delación”, in Boletín del Centro de Estudios Registrales de Cataluña, no. 102, (October-December 2003)
• María Esperança Ginebra Molins and Iván Mateo Borge “La pignoración de depósitos bancarios a plazo fijo: eficacia de la prenda frente a embargos posteriores. Consideración especial del pignus debiti”, in Garantías reales mobiliarias en Europa, María Elena Lauroba / Joan Marsal (Coord.), Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, S.A., Madrid-Barcelona, (2006)
• Co-author of the Spanish translation of the BGB, vid. Albert Lamarca (Dir), Marcial Pons, Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, 2008

• Lecturer for International Law master’s program (Higher Institute of Law and Economics – ISDE – University of Barcelona).

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, German and English