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Biography

Joaquín Ruiz Echauri is the head of the Insurance and Reinsurance practice at Pérez-Llorca. He has 30 years of experience providing corporate, regulatory and litigious advice for the insurance and reinsurance industry. During his career he has worked with major national and international clients on M&A transactions, bancassurance alliances, VIF reinsurance agreements, portfolio transfers and reorganisations and all types of corporate matters. Among the most significant achievements of his work are one of the first cross-border mergers of insurance companies, practically all the VIF reinsurance operations carried out in Spain and Portugal, and some of the most complex transactions in bancassurance and in national and cross-border portfolio transfers. He is also a recognised specialist in the field of insurance litigation, as well as in product liability matters. Specifically, his experience covers P&C, PI, D&O, E&O, Cyber and MedMal litigation, as well as claims handling, refusals of coverage, recoveries and actions of all kinds, including arbitration, where he has acted as arbitrator and expert in insurance matters. Since 1993, he has acted before courts and tribunals of all jurisdictions in complex matters of utmost importance for the sector and, in general, for his clients. He is a professor of Private Law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). In addition, he is author, co-author and coordinator of numerous books and studies about Insurance and Product Liability Law in Spain, as well as collaborator of journals and specialised press and has published a wide variety of articles and works related to his practice area.