Our Team

A multidisciplinary team with extensive experience in legal services

Aiyon Abogados is a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, where one of the partners holds a BA in Seamanship and Maritime Transportation, and all of them have extensive experience in legal services and in direct handling of cases with clients. Several years of intensive work together enable us to offer our customers 360°Comprehensive Legal Services.

Due to our reputable experience in the area of practice, legal services at national and international level in all areas of law, customized attention we provide to our clients and our immediate response, since we are reachable 24/7, we have gained the trust of our clients as well as recognition of other professionals of the sector, becoming thus a reliable and a very solid law firm.

Madrid | Cádiz | Bilbao | Algeciras

Madrid

Verónica Meana

Verónica holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree (LLM) from the University of Texas.

She specializes in all matters relating to maritime law, insurance law and recovery actions with special attention to issues subject to arbitration/mediation, cruise ship compensation claims, recreational marine industry and yacht incidents, along with all the rest of maritime accidents.

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Julia García

Julia holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in EU Law from the Carlos III University.

She specializes in diverse aspects of aviation law, such as air cargo and passenger claims and all kind of air accidents. She also specializes in maritime law, particularly in marine pollution, transport contracts, incoterms, damage insurance and civil liability.

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Cádiz

Enrique Ortiz

Enrique holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Maritime Law and Shipping Business (ICADE).

He specializes in diverse aspects of insurance law, as well as in land and multimodal transport, and international trade. Enrique holds reputable experience in analysis of maritime insurance policies, land transport claims, international sales contract and distribution, apart from being an excellent negotiator.

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Encarnación Quevedo

Encarnación holds a Law Degree and a Master’s Degree in New Technology Law (LLM) and attended an advanced program in Economics, Territorial Planning and Development, by University of Cadiz and Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.

She specializes in diverse aspects of Administrative Law with reputable experience in the Public Administration in various fields such as administrative and contractual proceedings, civil and criminal law.

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Bilbao

Mikel Garteiz-goxeaskoa

Mikel holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Maritime Law (LLM) from the University of Southampton.

He specializes in different aspects of maritime, insurance and international trade law. We must stress his outstanding experience in matters related to marine pollution, ship and cargo arrest, sanctioning proceedings, ship purchasing, piracy, advising on insurance policies and handling all kind of claims.

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Zuberoa Elorriaga

Zuberoa holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree from the “Escuela de Práctica Jurídica” (ICAV).

She specializes in different aspects of land and multimodal transport as well as in maritime and aviation law with particular attention to transport under CMR-CIM contracts, cargo and passenger claims in land and air transport. She also handles sanctioning proceeding cases, incidents with stowaways and insurance and P&I recovery claims.

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Algeciras

José Antonio Domínguez

José holds a Law Degree, Masters Degree in Maritime Law from the University of Deusto, Masters Degree in Maritime Law from the University of Oslo and Master Mariner.

He is a lawyer and a mariner specialized in all areas of maritime, insurance and international trade law, especially those related to advising on any kind of charter party, navigation accidents, and registration of vessels, incidents with stowaways, sanctioning proceedings and claims management for P&Is.

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We are members of:

Asociación Española de Derecho Marítimo (AEDM) / European Air Law Association (EALA) / Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) / Propeller Club del País Vasco Puerto Bilbao / Comport Bahía de Algeciras / Cuerpo Consular de Bilbao / Uniport Bilbao / Asociación Nacional de Empresas Náuticas (ANEN)

Lates News:

AIYON Abogados reinforces the offices in Cadiz and Algeciras9 October, 2019 - 6:09 pm
Our law firm reinforces the Cadiz and Algeciras offices as Encarnacion Quevedo joins their team of lawyers. Encarnacion, with a reputable professional career, will contribute to our team with her excellent work and will reinforce the labour we have been doing in AIYON providing 360º Comprehensive Legal Services to our clients. On the other hand, we must […]
Cyber disruption in marine18 September, 2019 - 5:43 pm
Yesterday, one of our partners, Verónica Meana, took part in a practical conference organized by AON under the title “CYBER DISRUPTION IN MARINE” which was held in AON’s head office in Torre de Iberdrola in Bilbao. The conference was devoted to learning about and to sharing the risks and consequences that cyberattacks constitute in transportation […]
The direct action of the carrier endorsed by The Supreme Court2 September, 2019 - 8:35 am
In its Judgement nº 248/2019 dated 6th May , the Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed the right of the effective carrier to take direct action against the sender in case the freight for the transport has not been paid. The Supreme Court had previously ruled in favour of this direct action in its Judgement Nº […]
A competitive but also a secure road transportation10 July, 2019 - 12:08 pm
We received a new case in our law firm. Our good clients request that we protect their interests in a case of cargo that was stolen during a road transportation between Spain and Italy, a contract that was agreed under the terms of the CMR Convention (Convention relative au contrat de transport international de Marchandise […]
PIRACY, A REALITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY28 June, 2019 - 9:03 am
Piracy in the maritime world is a reality with a history of hundreds of years, being sometimes prosecuted and other times protected by the institutions of the countries present in the different maritime areas around the world. We have been currently witnessing the fact that this phenomenon is still alive and that it is a […]