About
Carlos is a Senior Associate in Madrid.
With more than a decade of experience, Carlos has acted in a broad spectrum of complex and cross-border contentious matters before Spanish courts including M&A and shareholder disputes, infrastructure and construction claims, product liability, and technology‑driven conflicts.
His practice also includes investor-State arbitration in Latin America, international commercial arbitration in various industry fields, and arbitration-related court proceedings in Spain and abroad.
Carlos is admitted to practice law in Spain. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Catalan.
Litigation
- Representing a European private equity fund in a €200 million post-M&A dispute in Spain.
- Representing four Premier League football clubs in shareholder disputes in Spain.
- Representing a global technology multinational in Spanish administrative proceedings concerning the defense of its €4 billion takeover of an affiliate.
- Representing a global medical devices manufacturer in several product liability claims before Spanish civil and administrative courts and on the impact of related criminal proceedings.
- Advising and representing US tech companies in connection with consumer, product liability, and antitrust damages litigation exposure in Spain.
International arbitration and arbitration-related litigation
- Advising a telecommunications conglomerate on its claims against two different Latin American states under bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements. Combined claims in excess of US$1 billion.
- Representing a global mining corporation in Spanish recognition proceedings of a US$270 million PCA award.
- Acting as arbitral secretary in a €300 million international CIMA arbitration concerning a failed joint venture in the hospitality sector between Arabian groups. Luxembourg law applied*.
- Representing a sovereign state in the global coordination of judicial and arbitral proceedings in Spain, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg related to a US$32 billion claim*.
*Matters handled prior to joining Freshfields
Carlos Hernández
Torre Europa
Paseo de la Castellana, 95