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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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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Irantzu Sedano

Irantzu holds a Law Degree from the University of the Basque Country and a Masters Degree in Port Companies Management and Maritime Law from the University of Deusto. Furthermore, she also holds a Masters Degree in Logistics and International Trade from EUDE Business School and a Masters Degree in Financial Consultancy from the University of Deusto.

In October 2019 she joined AIYON Abogados in its Bilbao office where she is being trained developing so her professional activity in the diverse areas of maritime law, land transport and commerce. She specializes in handling of insurance claims handling, revision of insurance policies and 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) / Comport Bahía de Algeciras / Uniport Bilbao / Asociación Española de Derecho Aeronáutico y Espacial (AEDAE) / European Maritime Law Organisation (EMLO) / Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) / Cádiz-Port / Propeller Club del País Vasco Puerto Bilbao / Cuerpo Consular de Bilbao

Lates News:

AIYON Abogados Consolidates its Engagement and Involvement with the Port of Cádiz and its Hinterland15 July, 2021 - 9:20 pm
Thanks to the Group JOLY and its newspapers “Diario de Cádiz” and “Europa Sur”, AIYON Abogados SLP had the opportunity to show, once again, its engagement and involvement with the port community of Cádiz and the logistic framework of its hinterland. Enrique Ortiz, the partner in charge of our office in that place and the […]
New website of AIYON Abogados on Ship Arrest23 June, 2021 - 6:15 pm
AIYON Abogados has launched a new website devoted to the management of the ship arrest, both to request its lifting as well as to proceed with its execution. Thus, those interested in learning about and, when needed, in using this efficient legal tool that guarantees the recovery of a debt (International Convention on Arrest of […]
Royal Decree 339/2021, of May 18, regulating the safety and pollution prevention equipment on recreational craft21 May, 2021 - 9:07 am
From the relentless technological evolution of the equipment to be installed on recreational craft along with the latest update coming from Europe on recreational craft and marine equipment, derives the new Royal Decree 339/2021 of May 18, regulating the safety equipment and pollution prevention of recreational craft published today May 19, 2021, and whose entry […]
“MV EVER GIVEN”: Insurances and General Average17 May, 2021 - 5:27 am
On 23 March 2021, the vessel “MV EVER GIVEN”, one of the largest container ships in the world with a capacity of 20,000 TEUs, was grounded in the Suez Canal (Egypt). From then on and for the following six days, until the ship could finally be towed, an immense traffic jam was generated in the […]
“The Legal 500” joins the list of international distinctions of AIYON Abogados29 April, 2021 - 4:02 pm
AIYON Abogados SLP has received a special recognition for its areas of Maritima and Land Transport Law by “The Legal 500”, a prestigious international guide that investigates the activity of more than 2,700 law firms in 80 countries. This evaluation is added to the gradually extending relation of distinctions granted to the firm: “The International […]