Carlota Domínguez has more than 15 years' experience advising clients in matters involving civil litigation, investments, and commercial arbitration. She represents clients in disputes involving commercial agreements, construction defects, and agency and distribution contract matters. Additionally, she advises on claims involving financial institutions, directors' liability, unfair competition, and insolvency proceedings.
Carlota has worked with major national and international companies in the construction, energy, financial services, manufacturing, telecoms, and media sectors in a variety of jurisdictions and courts.
More recently, Carlota successfully advised a Panamanian company that invested with Spanish capital as a respondent and counterclaimant in an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration concerning the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreement in the construction of tunnels in two hydroelectric plants in Panama.
In 2016, Carlota wrote an article published in Anuario Contencioso para Abogados about the extension of the arbitral clause to non-signatories belonging to the same group. She also participated in the 2012 and 2013 editions of the book.
Experiência
- September 1, 2024
The Fork in the Road Clause: Current Overview, Challenges and Future Implications, in "Anuario de Arbitraje 2024" - March 23, 2021
Contractual arbitration and investment arbitration: when can they be joined in the same proceeding? - October 23, 2020
Termination of the Bilateral Investment Treaties between member States of the European Union - October 1, 2019
Recognition and enforcement of the award against non-signatories of the arbitration agreement. Do we really want to dispense with the written arbitration agreement? - Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2019, with Juan Ignacio Santabaya. - June 15, 2018
"Effectiveness of the independent expert pricing agreement: legal nature of the expert's performance and the possibility and scope of review of the expert's work by the courts", in "Anuario de Arbitraje 2018", Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor, 2018, with Juan Ignacio Santabaya. - April 6, 2018
"One more step towards class actions in Spain?", in Expansión Jurídico, 2018.
- April 4-6, 2018
60 Years of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Relevant Issues and Future Challenges
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Law Degree 2001); Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (Master's in Financial Markets 2001)
- Member 72204 of the Madrid Bar Association
Best Lawyers (2023-2024) — Arbitration and Mediation
The Legal 500 EMEA (2023-2024) — recommended lawyer for Dispute Resolution
- English, Spanish