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Gonzalo Ardila
PartnerMadrid
Email [email protected]hoganlovells.com
Phone +34 91 349 82 66
Fax +34 91 349 82 01
LanguagesSpanish, English
Practice groupLitigation, Arbitration, and Employment
"Supportive at all times”.
Legal 500 EMEA 2019
Gonzalo Ardila is the head of the Litigation and Arbitration practice of the Madrid office. Gonzalo has extensive experience in commercial litigation and domestic and international arbitration, representing clients from the energy, infrastructure and retail sectors. He is also particularly active in the insurance sector.
Gonzalo is well known to his clients for his technical skills, full availability and dedication, in addition to his depth of analysis and attention to detail as a way of planning the most effective strategy for each case and his ability to summarise and easily explain very complex matters in pleadings and hearings.
Gonzalo is a member of the Spanish Arbitration Club and has teaching experience as a Professor of Civil Procedure Law in the Master of Private Law of the Madrid Bar Association and the practicum of ICADE, amongst others. Moreover, Gonzalo is well recognized in directories such as Legal 500 and Expert Guides for Dispute Resolution.
Awards and recognitions
2014, 2019-2021
Recommended for Dispute Resolution
Legal 500 EMEA
2020
Recognised for Commercial Arbitration
Experts Guide
2020
Recognised as “Excellent” for International Arbitration
Leaders League
2016
Ranked in Dispute Resolution (Spain)
Chambers Global
Education and admissions
Education
Law Degree, Universidad de Salamanca, 1999
Representative experience
Counsel representing an international gas production group in legal proceedings against a Spanish electricity production group for price review of a long-term international gas supply contract.*
Counsel representing an international insurance company in legal proceedings brought by a Spanish real estate company claiming more than € 620 million for breach of a complex contract for the outsourcing of its net of commercial agencies in Spain.*
Co-counsel representing an international leader of the textile sector in an ICC arbitration against its shareholder in a joint venture constituted for distribution of products in several countries in Latin America.*
Counsel representing a Spanish Stock Exchange listed construction company against another listed international construction group in an international arbitration for termination of a service contract.*
Counsel representing an Austrian multinational group against a relevant Spanish construction group in an ICC arbitration in relation to the construction of a hydroelectric plant in Latin America.*
Counsel representing two Spanish engineering and construction companies members of a consortium awarded a large engineering project against other members of the consortium in relation to the additional costs arising from the execution of said project.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
