Founding partner

Francisco García-Ortells

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

Lawyer, PhD in Law, and Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
Chair of the Construction and Engineering Law Section of the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
Director and Professor of the Master’s Degree in Construction Law at the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).
Director National Construction and Engineering Law Congress.
Chair of the Public Law Section of the International Bar Association (IBA).
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
Researcher in the Real Estate and Construction Law group of the Civil Law Department of the Law School at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

Specialities

Litigation. Procedural law and arbitration.
Contentious – Administrative.
Infrastructure and Public Works.
Construction and Real Estate.
Property Law.

Professional career

Founder of “García-Ortells, Abogados” in May 2014.
Served as Director of Procedural Law and Arbitration at Broseta Abogados, Madrid, from September 2012 to April 2014.
Worked as a Lawyer at Ariño y Villar, Abogados, from January 2010 to September 2012.
Headed Legal Affairs for Infrastructure at OHL from January 2002 to December 2009.

Publications

Author of numerous articles on public and private procurement, arbitration, and litigation.

Selected publications include:

The consolidation of arbitration in certain public sector contracts. Collective work Arbitration and the Public Sector / Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration.

The suspension of the enforceability of administrative acts on the basis of fumus boni iuris. Yearbook of Administrative Law 2023. Civitas. ISBN: 978-84-1125-956-9

The public works contract. Five years of the Public Sector Contracts Law: study of the situation and solutions for its regulation. Aranzadi Publishing House. ISBN: 978-84-1125-036-8

Selected publications are available on: Dialnet. Francisco García-Ortells

Recognitions and awards

Recognised by Best Lawyers as a leading practitioner in litigation, arbitration, and administrative law every year in a row from 2016 to 2022.

Recognised by Best Lawyers as a leading practitioner in administrative law every year in a row from 2016 to 2022.

Memberships

Member of the Madrid Bar Association since 1999.
International Bar Association (IBA).
Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI)
Member of the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA)
Member of the Society of European Contract Law.
Member of the European Society of Construction Law.

Languages

Spanish, English and Italian.