Borja Álvarez

Borja Álvarez has participated in many arbitration and litigation cases related to the energy and telecoms sectors, and disputes arising from M&A, construction and real estate.

Featuring more than 12 years of professional experience, he has participated in international arbitration cases brought under investment protection treaties (the Energy Charter Treaty and other bilateral investment treaties), and in international commercial arbitration cases. He represents clients before the ICSID, ICC, SCC, AAA, the Court of Arbitration of Madrid and the International Arbitration Center of Madrid (CIAM), and in ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitrations. He also has experience in proceedings to recognize and enforce international decisions and request for provisional and interim measures, including enforcements of investment arbitration awards.

Borja Álvarez also advises on private international law, including choice-of-law issues and dispute resolution clauses in all types of contractual documents, as well as requests for international judicial cooperation (obtaining of evidence abroad, notifications in foreign countries, etc.).

Between 2017 and 2018, he completed secondments at the New York offices of US law firms Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Alston & Bird.

He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association (2011) and is admitted to the New York State Bar (2018). He is a member of the Spanish and Iberoamerican Arbitration Club (CEIA) and acted as co-chair of CEIA-40 (the CEIA’s under 40 group) between 2023 and 2024.

He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, NYSBA (International Section), being co-chair of the Spanish chapter, and of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA), where he is part of the steering committee of Young EFILA.

He is an associate lecturer of international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution in the Master in International and European Business Law at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas–ICADE in Madrid. He also lectures at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Universidad de Alcalá (UAH).

He speaks regularly at conferences on international arbitration and is the author of several publications and articles on international arbitration.