Miquel Roca

LLM in Shipping Law.
Member of the Managing Board of the Spanish Maritime Law Association.
Plenipotentiary of the Spanish Crown before the United Nations

Miquel is qualified both in Spain and England, having received the LLB from the Barcelona University, the LLM in Shipping Law from the Barcelona Law Society (where he was awarded with a Distinction) and the LLM in Shipping Law from Cardiff University. He is a member of the Spanish Maritime Law Association (Member of the Managing Board), the International Bar Association, Maritime and Transport Law Committee, and the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Marнtimo.

He is a visiting lecturer at The City Law School, The City University, London; at the Vigo University in Spain; at the Universiy of Piraeus in Greece; at the University of Mexico (UNAM); at the Riga Law School, Letonia, and at the Lund University in Sweden. After working for the Legal Office of the Barcelona Port Authority, Miquel joined P&O Nedlloyd where he worked as an account manager. He was then retained by the United Nations in Vienna within the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law's (UNCITRAL) Transportation Law Working Group, Maritime Law Branch. Miquel also lectured Maritime Law at the Webster University of Vienna.

Miquel then returned to private practice, first in Hamburg and then in Barcelona, after which he moved to London where he practiced as a Solicitor acting for the main ship owners, freight forwarders, logistics operators, P&I's, insurance companies and banks based in London and also for Spanish and Latin-American companies, both in court and in arbitration proceedings.

His most recent work includes advising a ship owner after the sinking of one of its vessels in the Mediterranean Sea; advising a ship-owner after a collision suffered by one of its vessels off the Bay of Biscay; counseling a marine recoveries company on the recover of the cargo of a shipwreck; directing the drafting commission of a new bill of lading for a leading European shipping group; directing two maritime proceedings in Washington, USA, for a leading shipping Spanish trader; and defending the interests of a shipyard before a claim in excess of 200 million Euros.

Miquel has been appointed as Plenipotentiary of the Spanish Crown before the United Nations which on behalf of the Kingdom of Spain signed the Rotterdam Rules. Miquel has been included in the list of "The Best 50 Lawyers in Spain" by the Legal Acquisition International, thus being recognized as one of the best 50 lawyers in the country. Miquel speaks English, Spanish, German and Catalan.

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