Eduardo Villellas

Eduardo is a partner in the Litigation and Arbitration practice at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. 

He has over 24 years’ experience as a solicitor and arbitrator, with a highly specialised practice in civil and commercial litigation and in domestic and international arbitration. In the judicial sphere, he advises clients on complex disputes relating to, among other sectors, engineering, energy, banking, real estate, distribution, technology, automotive, security, hospitality and finance, including declaratory proceedings, injunctions, enforcement, insolvency and claims arising from corporate and financial transactions.

In addition, Eduardo has extensive experience in domestic and international commercial arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc, as a solicitor and as an arbitrator. He has participated in proceedings administered by the Arbitration Court of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce (CAM), the Madrid International Arbitration Centre (CIAM-CIAR), the Civil and Commercial Arbitration Court (CIMA), the Spanish Arbitration Court (CEA), the Barcelona Arbitration Court (TAB), the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Court of Arbitration of the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations conducted under different legal frameworks and in various languages. 

Throughout his career, he has advised national and international companies on disputes arising from construction, energy, infrastructure, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution and agency agreements, licence agreements, services and leases, as well as on particularly complex corporate and financial disputes, including the interpretation of share purchase agreement clauses and disputes between joint venture partners. 

Eduardo has participated as an author and co-author in various legal reference works on arbitration, procedural law and private international law, and regularly collaborates as a lecturer and speaker at prestigious academic and professional institutions, including the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM), FIDE, ESADE, UIC, ISDE and CEU.