Specialist in insurance and reinsurance; advising on dispute resolution and risk underwriting.

Javier Martínez specializes in commercial disputes and complex lawsuits. He focuses his practice on the insurance and reinsurance sector, representing the major market players in disputes over contractual and non-contractual liability, as well as in insurance coverage disputes, subrogation actions and complex mass claims.

Javier has been involved  in some of the major cases related to insurance products such as financial lines (directors and officers, professioanl indemnity, emploeyment practices and cyber), casualty, general civil liability, environmental and product liability.

In the contractual area, he advises on the interpretation and negotiation of insurance policies, as well as on risk underwriting.. He also advises on the analysis and execution of litigation funding transactions and contingent risk insurance policies.

Before joining Cuatrecasas, he worked at other top-level national and international law firms. In 2023 he completed a legal secondment in a litigation investment fund.

He is an associate lecturer of Financial Markets Law (insurance market) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He also lectures on, among others, Civil and Commercial Litigation and on Insurance Law in the Law Practice Master of UPF Barcelona School of Management.

He is a member of the Spanish Association of Expert Lawyers in Civil Liability and Insurance and the Spanish Association of Young Insurance Experts.

Education

  • Specialization Program in Insurance Regulatory Law
    Institute of Stock Exchange Studies (IEB), Madrid, 2022

    Master in International Business Law
    Freie Universität Berlin, 2014

    Master for Admission to the Practice of Law
    ESADE Business & Law School, Barcelona, 2014

    International Exchange Program
    University of Minnesota, USA, 2012

    Bachelor of Laws
    ESADE Business & Law School, 2013

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