- Home
- Find a lawyer
- Marta García Bel
Profile details
Milan
Via dei Giardini 720121 Milan
T +39 02 625 301
F +39 02 625 30800
Madrid
Torre EuropaPaseo de la Castellana, 95
Madrid 28046
P +34 91 700 3700
F +34 91 308 4636
Marta García Bel is a Senior Associate based in our Milan and Madrid offices. She is a member of the dispute resolution practice group and specializes in commercial and investment arbitration.
Marta advises major corporates and states in international arbitrations, many involving complex and high value claims, conducted under the rules of the major arbitral institutions (ICSID, ICSID AF, ICC, LCIA...). Her recent experience includes representing Governments and multinational companies with investments in Latin America and Europe in a variety of sectors, including power and utilities, banking and financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecommunications and food production and distribution. Marta also provides legal advice to corporates concerning public and private international law matters and on sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) transformation.
During her time at Freshfields Marta spent two years in our New York office and nine months on secondment at Eni S.p.A, where she focused on energy-related arbitrations. Before joining Freshfields in early 2015, she worked as an associate at Uría Menéndez in Madrid and Barcelona where she represented clients in corporate criminal liability and white collar crime investigations and proceedings before the Spanish courts.
Marta advocates in Spanish, English and Italian. She also speaks fluent Catalan and some German and French. She regularly publishes and speaks on arbitration and international law topics. She is also a champion for diversity and inclusion, co-founder of the Italy Women's Network (2016) as well as of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Young Practitioners Subcommittee, where she serves as Secretary since 2020.
back to tab navigationMarta’s recent experience includes advising:
- a family of Spanish investors in two parallel arbitration proceedings under the ICSID Additional Facility Rules and the UNCITRAL rules against Venezuela arising from the expropriation of their investments in the food importation and distribution sector and other measures;
- an Italian international energy services company in two gas price review arbitrations under the UNCITRAL and ICC rules;
- a Spanish financial group in an arbitration claim against Bolivia in relation to the expropriation of a contract;
- a Mexican telecommunications multinational company in an arbitration claim against Colombia in relation to the expropriation of their assets;
- a Peruvian investor in an arbitration under the ICSID Additional Facility Rules against Venezuela in relation to the expropriation of his investments in the telecommunications sector;
- an Ecuadorian company in a contract-based arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules arising out of the lack of compensation after Ecuador’s termination of the agreements regulating the operations of two oil blocks;
- a Spanish investor in an arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules against Venezuela concerning the expropriation of his investments in the telecommunications sector;
- a primary financial institution in civil and criminal proceedings before Italian courts.
University education
- 2010 - University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) (Law Degree, J.D.)
- 2011 - University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) (Master in Legal Sciences)
- 2012 - University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) (Ph.D. courses)
- 2012 - 2013 Visitor researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Professional qualifications
- 2010 - Admitted to the Barcelona Bar Association
- 2019 - Admitted to the Italian Bar (Avvocato)
Milan
Via dei Giardini 720121 Milan
T +39 02 625 301
F +39 02 625 30800
Madrid
Torre EuropaPaseo de la Castellana, 95
Madrid 28046
T +34 91 700 3700
F +34 91 308 4636 marta.garciabel@freshfields.com
Blog posts
Publications
-
Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, n.º 39, 2015. GARCÍA BEL, Marta and DAVID GARCÍA, Jesús, “El poder de control del empresario sobre el correo electrónico de sus trabajadores. A propósito de la Sentencia de la Sala de lo Penal del Tribunal Supremo de 16 de junio de 2014”
Related
- Disputes, litigation and arbitration
- Banking and financial services
- Regulatory/enforcement
- Environment
- International arbitration
- Global investigations
- Public international law
- White collar defence and corporate crime
- Sustainability
- Business and human rights
- Climate change
- Corporate governance
- Sustainable finance
- Securities and shareholder litigation