GAR Analysis

• No. of pending cases: 4
• Value of all claims: US$293million
• No. of appearances in Who's Who: 1
• No. of treaty cases: 0
• No. of arbitration appointments (No. as chair or sole): 0(0)

Monero Meyer Marinel-lo Abogados is an unusual creature: a Spanish law firm composed in the large part of non-Spanish nationals, especially lawyers from Germany and Austria. Many of its members are active in international arbitration.

The firm has three offices in Spain and one in Germany. The partners who specialise in international arbitration are all in Madrid. Calvin Hamilton, who heads the group, was born in Guyana and trained in the US before moving to Spain. He is in the most recent edition of The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration.

The firm has recent experience in three merits hearings. All were in Spanish and under ICC or AAA rules. In two of those, however, it instructed external advocates. A firm able to give a report from the opposite side of a hearing is Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP.

The group has benefited from the recent arrival of Werner Jahnel in its Barcelona office. Jahnel joined after three years at an Austrian firm that specialises in arbitration and international commercial law. Between 1999 and 2001, he was counsel at the ICC's International Court of Arbitration in Paris. He has been a visiting professor for the international arbitration course on the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid's LLM. He is also the founder and president of the YAAP (Austria's association for young international arbitrators) as well as a member of its national organisation, ArbAut.