Mr. Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Gálvez

Mr. Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Gálvez

Position: Managing Partner at Álvarez-Ossorio Miller & Co.

About me

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 

2010-2010. Harvard Law School. Law and Economics. (Harvard University).USA.

1999-2000                Doctorate in Law (Autonomous University of Madrid). 

  • First Term: Outstanding.
  • Second Term: Outstanding.

Advanced studies qualification (Thesis on fundamental rights): Summa Cum Laude
1989-1994.- Law Degree (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
1974-1989.- Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar. (Madrid).

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

1995-1995. Master of Law (LL.M) “Instituto de Empresa”.

OTHER COURSES AND SEMINARS

1994-1994. Seminar on Town Planning and Fiscal Policy.(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.).
1994-1994.- Legal Practice Course “Land and Commercial Registry of Madrid”.
1994-1994.- Legal Practice Course “Provincial Court (of appeals) of Madrid”.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998-Current. Law Offices .- “Alvarez-Ossorio, Miller & Co. Abogados” (Managing-Partner).

    • Expert labour lawyer in matters of Internal Pension Fund claims, having obtained the only favourable ruling from the High Court of Justice of Madrid for to claims a Bank ex-employee, addressing diverse proceedings within the national ambit in relation pertaining to said right.
    • Processing of all types of labour-related matters     in the defence of directors, institutions and companies of a very diverse nature, including football clubs.
    • Legal advisor for HILTI ESPAÑOLA, S.A. (Contentious Department).
    • Intervention in civil contentious proceedings:

  • Supreme Court (Appeals and Reviews).
  • Superior Courts of Justice (Appeals for Reversal).
  • Intervention as Lead Lawyer in the Provincial Courts of Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante, Sevilla, Murcia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valencia, La Coruña, etc…).
  • Magistrate’s Courts throughout the whole of Spain.

  • Bankruptcy Proceedings.
  • Appeals and Reviews.
  • Responsible as Legal Advisor for Hilti Española, S.A. for the revocation and renovation of powers of attorney on a national level, through to their global inscription in the Commercial Registry of Madrid.
  • Legal Advisor for contractual matters (International Commercial Agreements).
  • Legal Advisor MIELE, S.A.(Legal Counsel Dept./Spain).
  • Secretary of the Board of Directors of MIELE, S.A.
  • Responsible for the Network of Distribution Contracts on a national level.
  • Responsible for Technical Assistance and Service Contracts.
  • Responsible for relations with concessionaries in the legal ambit.
  • Responsible for the defence of the company before diverse jurisdictional and administrative bodies.
  • Responsible for bringing civil and criminal contentious proceedings as Lead Lawyer for same.
  • Legal Advisor for diverse commercial and financial entities dealing with the following matters:

  • Responsibility of Stock Corporation Administrators.
  • Bringing civil proceedings.
  • Responsible for relations with the different administrations.
  • Legal Advisor C.D. Tenerife.

1995-1997. Professional Offices of  “A & A” 

  • Lawyer for the financial entity B.S.C.H.
  • Lawyer for the real estate commercial entity BAMI.

1994-1995. Law Firm of Thomas Cooper & Stibbard. (City of London).
Issues handled:

  • International Maritime Law.
  • International Arbitration (C.C.I.).
  • Legal-commercial relations (International purchase/sale).
  • Drawing up of International Contracts.
  • Intervention as Lawyer in Litigation before the British Supreme Court.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Editorial Board of Intereconomía.

Collaborator for the Intereconomía group in diverse publications specialising in the field of employment/labour.

Participant as panellist, every Thursday since 2006, on the programme “Closure of Markets” for  Intereconomía Televisión.

Collaborator on the radio programme “Mundo Noticias” for Radio Intercontinental, with attendance at diverse company breakfast meetings held at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid.

Speaker at diverse CEOE (Confemetal) conferences.

Speaker at various conferences on Internal Pension Funds within the national ambit.

2011 – Professor of International Arbitration on the Masters Degree of International Advocacy. Instituto Superior Derecho y Economía (ISDE)

2000-2000 – Intervention as Speaker on the El Escorial Summer Course “Youths and new technologies as a whole given on the 26th of July of 2000, together with other Speakers, amongst whom were the President of the Spanish Government, José María Aznar, and the Justice Minister, Angel Acebes.

1998-1999 – Professor of the Department “International Contracts and International Arbitration” 

        (IDE-CESEM).

1997 –         Professor of the Department of  “Procedural Strategy” (Instituto Empresa).

1996-1997 – Assistant Professor of the Department of “Procedural Law” (Instituto Empresa).

1995-1997 – Assistant Professor of the Department of “Procedural Strategy”(Instituto Empresa)   


PUBLICATIONS

  • Publication by the Publisher of Legal Texts Dykinson, of the work ““The Legal Precept of Urban Leasing” (DYKINSON 2000), prefaced by Luis Díez-Pícazo y Ponce de León (Magistrate Emeritus of the Constitutional Court and Chair of Civil Rights at the Autonomous University of Madrid
  • Publication by the Publisher of Legal Texts Dykinson of the work entitled “Responsibility of Administrators: Procedural aspects”(DYKINSON 1998), prefaced by Jesús Marina Martínez-Pardo (Magistrate of the First Division of the Supreme Court).
  • Publication in the Diario A.B.C., of the Article “Arbitration” (25th of October of 1998).
  • Interviews in various specialist media outlets, such as the financial newspaper “Expansión” in his capacity as Managing Partner of the Law Firm “Alvarez-Ossorio, Miller & Co. Abogados”, answering questions on diverse matters relating to current legal affairs.
  • Collaborator on diverse publications in specialist magazines for SME’s.
  • Diverse publications on Labour Law

OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

  • Presentation of various Inaugural and Informative Seminars at the Instituto Empresa, as part of the LL.M programme.
  • President of diverse Examination Boards for both the Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA for Professionals), and the Master of Law (LL.M), during the years 1996, 1997 , 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.
  • Preparation of diverse exams as part of the Masters in Company Law Programme.
  • Lead Lawyer in proceedings undertaken before the British Courts of Justice.