Senior Legal Counsel

Paloma joined Deminor as a Spanish-qualified lawyer in 2022.

Main tasks

• Assessment of litigation funding opportunities in international arbitration and commercial litigation.
• Promoting and managing Spanish and Latin American cases in the three core business areas of Deminor: Investment Recovery, Antitrust Damages and Commercial Litigation.

Previous work experience

• In-house Counsel, Legal Operations Department, Tecnicas Reunidas, Madrid (Spain), 2020-2022.
• Lawyer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Litigation and Arbitration department, Madrid (Spain), 2019-2020.
• Lawyer, Pérez-Llorca, Litigation and Arbitration department, Madrid (Spain), 2015-2019.

Education

• Master’s in Legal Practice, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 2013-2015.
  Bachelor´s Degree in Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 2009-2013.

Additional information

• Shortlisted as Rising Star in the 2023 edition of Lexology European Counsel Awards.
• Coach of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Team for the Moot Madrid (13th and 14th edition).
• Professor in Private Contracts, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019) and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas – ICADE (2020).
• Nova 111 List Spain: included in the list as one of the top 10 professionals under 35 with the highest potential in the category of Legal Services.
  

Publications

•  “La financiación de litigios como oportunidad en el mercado de inversión” (link).
• “Third-Party funding for International Arbitration in Latin America” (link).
• Contributor to the 13^th edition of the “Revista Industria legal para Mexico” (link).
• “Third-Party Law Review: Spain Chapter (2022 and 2023)”.
• “Litigios financiados por terceros: El perfil de las empresas que recurren al TPF y sus inversionistas” (LexLatin | Litigios financiados por terceros: El perfil de las empresas que recurren al TPF y sus inversionistas).
• “Waivers of Sovereign Immunities in Enforcement Proceedings and the 1958 NY Convention” (Wolters Kluwer. February 2019).
• “Awaiting a decision on the compatibility of Investor-Sate dispute settlement with EU Law” (IBA Arbitration Newsletter. February 2018).
• Contributor to “Principios básicos de la Ley Española de Arbitraje” (Thomson Reuters – Aranzadi, 1st ed. 2019).
• Contributor to “Código de Arbitraje” (Thomson Reuters – Aranzadi, 1st ed. 2018).

Conferences

• Leaders League Iberian Summit (March 2024).
• Open de Arbitraje – Incentivos y desincentivos para negociar o arbitrar (según cada parte y situación). May 2023.
• Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez - Podcast: Espacio Arbitral. May 2023 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iqeIvqIXhFfjq0RTu6A4a?si=1882fb6a53124e3d&nd=1&dlsi=125999d7066141df).
• Young ITA Mentorship Program. March 2023.
• TPF Institute - TPF y su aplicación desde la experiencia de un fondo de financiamiento. January 2023.
• CIAM – Ciclo sobre financiadores de arbitrajes (2022).

• Spanish (native).
• English (advanced).