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Carmen Martinez Lopez to speak at the 19th International Congress of The Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club (CEIA)

Events 30th May 2025

Carmen Martinez Lopez will speak at the CEIA Congress in the session “Most important cases of the year”, held in Madrid.

Carmen will speak alongside Patricio Grane (Arnold & Portner) and the session will be moderated by Juan Manuel Rey (Cuatrecasas).

The session will take place on Tuesday 3 June 2025 from 12:00 to 13:15 as part of the CEIA Congress programme.

To register and learn more, click here: https://19congreso.clubarbitraje.com/eventos/xviii-congreso-internacional-del-ceia/

ABOUT CARMEN MARTINEZ LOPEZ

Carmen, a partner in the Madrid office, has appeared as advocate in numerous investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. She has handled arbitrations under the rules of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc across a variety of jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Latin America and Spain. Carmen also sits as arbitrator.

Carmen is recognised in all major publications, including as a “Leading Individual” in The Legal 500 Latin America, with sources describing her as  “one of the most impressive legal minds I have encountered”, a “truly gifted practitioner”, who “has worked on some of the biggest cases of all time”, delivers “in a friendly and folksy tone, a very persuasive oral argument and a devastating cross-examination”, “gets into the details while keeping a strategic mindset”, “understands problems very well in a global way”, “has a lot of availability for the client”, and “has certainly been building up a fantastic reputation” in the market for her work in both investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. She has also been described as a “brilliant arbitrator”.