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:

Verónica Meana and Mikel Garteiz-goxeaskoa participate once again in the Master’s Degree in Business and Maritime Law of the Spanish Maritime Institute20 October, 2021 - 1:16 pm
Verónica Meana and Mikel Garteiz-goxeaskoa, partners of the AIYON Abogados’ offices in Madrid and Bilbao respectively, are once again members of the team of lectures teaching at the Master’s Degree in Business and Maritime Law of the Spanish Maritime Institute. Aimed particularly at graduates in Law, Economics and Business Administration, Seamanship and Naval Engineers who […]
Verónica Meana joins the Arbitration Team of the Madrid Bar Association20 October, 2021 - 1:10 pm
Verónica Meana Larrucea, partner in charge of the AIYON Abogados’ office in Madrid, has recently joined the Arbitration Court of the Madrid Bar Association. The arbitrators are appointed by the Arbitration Court at the proposal of an Evaluation Committee designated by the governing body of the Bar Association after considering their curriculum and eligibility. Since […]
Impact of COVID-19 in the operation of vessels arriving at Spanish ports: obligation to isolate or confine “Close contacts” in case of infection of a crew member and the “Free Practique”7 October, 2021 - 3:10 pm
Air and Sea Workers, and the Reduction Coefficients23 September, 2021 - 5:53 pm
Workers in the transport sector generally endure difficult working conditions due to the long periods of work they must perform away from their homes, the distance from their families, the arduous schedules and, on occasions, the dangerous and unhealthy nature of their work; in short, the working conditions of all these workers could be defined […]
The concepts of Proper and Improper Solidarity31 August, 2021 - 9:49 am
The professional sector sometimes tends to be ambiguous and complex and, despite the generous regulations in this respect, it is well known that labour relations between employers and employees are not always clear or properly defined. In addition, subcontracting is very common, both via temporary employment agencies and between companies in the same group, which […]