Practice Expertise

  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Criminal Law
  • Sports & Entertainment
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Areas of Practice

  • Criminal Law
  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Sports & Entertainment
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Profile

Alberto Pimenta has been a partner in Garrigues’ Litigation and Arbitration Department since 2003, where he has pursued his entire professional career. He specializes in defense and case management in civil and corporate/commercial litigation: obligations and contracts, noncontractual liability, company law (challenging corporate resolutions, director liability and other shareholder disputes, etc.), side agreements, financial product-related litigation, unfair competition, exequaturs of foreign rulings, etc.

He regularly acts in proceedings conducted before jurisdictional bodies and arbitration courts on both domestic arbitrations (Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Industry Court of Arbitration, Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration, etc.) and international cases (ICC International Court of Arbitration).

Pimenta has been singled out by several directories, including Iberian Lawyer, Legal 500 and Chambers&Partners in the “Dispute Resolution” practice area, as one of the key individuals highlighted by the publication, which named the Firm a Band 1 firm in the litigation area.
He has been an Associate Lecturer in the Corporate/Commercial Law Department at Universidad de Salamanca (commercial contracts and security instruments). He also lectures at Centro de Estudios Garrigues. He is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences staged by the Firm and various specialized centers.
Member of the Madrid Bar Association.

Bar Admissions
Member of the Madrid Bar Association.

Education

Degree in Law from Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), 1991. National Degree Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science.
Doctorate Studies and Lecturer in the Private Law Department at Universidad de Salamanca, 1991-1993.

Areas of Practice

  • Criminal Law
  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Sports & Entertainment

Professional Career


Professional Activities and Experience

Teaching Experience

1991-1993: Assistant lecturer at the Corporate/Commercial Law Department of Universidad de Salamanca (Commercial contracts and securities).
Lecturer at the GARRIGUES Training Center



Articles

He has taken part as a speaker at various seminars and courses staged by ENFOQUE XXI on Civil Procedural Law 1/2000.


Contributor to the collective work “Comments on Arbitration Law 60/2003”. Expansión, April 2004.


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