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Strategic issues in international contracting and conflict resolution in the Maghreb
November 11, 2025From 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
From 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Prior registration required.
Please sign up using this form.
In Spanish and French, with simultaneous translation.
On Tuesday, November 11, Casa Árabe, and the Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration, with the cooperation of Madrid’s Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services and the Franco-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, have organized this meeting about legal certainty and arbitration in economic relations between Spain and Morocco. You may now register to attend.
Economic relations between Spain and the Maghreb countries, in terms of both trade and investment, have experienced significant growth in recent years, coupled with a greater presence of companies in the region, especially in Morocco. To strengthen these bilateral relations, there is a high priority on taking care of the entire trade environment, seeking specific mechanisms to respond to the challenges which continue to arise.
Given this intensification of trade and investment relations between the two countries, arbitration offers a flexible and equitable mechanism for resolving any differences between companies. It provides an instrument that increases legal certainty and mutual trust in contractual relations between legal entities in our countries.
The event will officially be opened by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco, the honorable Karima Benyaich, the Vice-President of the International Center of Arbitration in Madrid - Iberian-American Arbitration Center (CIAM - CIAR), Urquiola de Palacio, the President of the Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration, Ángel Asensio, and the General Director of Casa Árabe, Miguel Moro Aguilar.
The event will consist of three round table discussions addressing strategic trends and issues in resolving contractual disputes in the Maghreb, relations between Morocco and Spain as an expanding economic alliance, and a 360º view of investor-state dispute resolution in the Maghreb countries.
Schedule
Given this intensification of trade and investment relations between the two countries, arbitration offers a flexible and equitable mechanism for resolving any differences between companies. It provides an instrument that increases legal certainty and mutual trust in contractual relations between legal entities in our countries.
The event will officially be opened by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco, the honorable Karima Benyaich, the Vice-President of the International Center of Arbitration in Madrid - Iberian-American Arbitration Center (CIAM - CIAR), Urquiola de Palacio, the President of the Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration, Ángel Asensio, and the General Director of Casa Árabe, Miguel Moro Aguilar.
The event will consist of three round table discussions addressing strategic trends and issues in resolving contractual disputes in the Maghreb, relations between Morocco and Spain as an expanding economic alliance, and a 360º view of investor-state dispute resolution in the Maghreb countries.
Schedule
Schedule
9:30 a.m. – Welcoming of attendees
10:00 a.m. – Opening event
Miguel Moro Aguilar, General Director, Casa Árabe
Javier Íscar de Hoyos, President, Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration
Urquiola de Palacio del Valle de Lersundi, Vice-President, Madrid International Arbitration Center - Iberian-American Arbitration Center (CIAM - CIAR)
Karima Benyaich, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Spain
10:30 a.m. – Morocco and Spain: An economic alliance in expansion
Moderated by: Houda Benghazi, Vice-President, Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration;
José Manuel Sirvent Baeza, President, Turrones 1880;
Mario Rotllant i Sola, President, NABC (North Africa Bottling Company).
Fernando Domingo Díez, Secretary General, Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Morocco
11:00 a.m. – Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – Arbitration as an economic driver
Moderated by: Mounia El Harti Alonso, partner, Ius Aequitas Abogados, Madrid
Alejandro Alonso Dregi, partner at CECA MAGAN and Secretary General of the Spanish-Moroccan Arbitration Court
Miguel Guerrero Acosta, arbitrator at the Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration and partner at Mercurey Legal
12:00 p.m. – Debate with the attendees
12:30 p.m. – Closing event
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business (to be confirmed).
9:30 a.m. – Welcoming of attendees
10:00 a.m. – Opening event
Miguel Moro Aguilar, General Director, Casa Árabe
Javier Íscar de Hoyos, President, Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration
Urquiola de Palacio del Valle de Lersundi, Vice-President, Madrid International Arbitration Center - Iberian-American Arbitration Center (CIAM - CIAR)
Karima Benyaich, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Spain
10:30 a.m. – Morocco and Spain: An economic alliance in expansion
Moderated by: Houda Benghazi, Vice-President, Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration;
José Manuel Sirvent Baeza, President, Turrones 1880;
Mario Rotllant i Sola, President, NABC (North Africa Bottling Company).
Fernando Domingo Díez, Secretary General, Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Morocco
11:00 a.m. – Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – Arbitration as an economic driver
Moderated by: Mounia El Harti Alonso, partner, Ius Aequitas Abogados, Madrid
Alejandro Alonso Dregi, partner at CECA MAGAN and Secretary General of the Spanish-Moroccan Arbitration Court
Miguel Guerrero Acosta, arbitrator at the Spanish-Moroccan Court of Arbitration and partner at Mercurey Legal
12:00 p.m. – Debate with the attendees
12:30 p.m. – Closing event
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business (to be confirmed).
The Spanish Moroccan Court of Arbitration was established in September 2006 and presented in Madrid in February 2007, with the cooperation of Casa Árabe, which published the texts of its “Rules and Procedural Regulations” and the “Code of Ethics” for arbitrators in a bilingual format (Spanish and French).
The Court consists of lawyers from both countries, as well as international arbitrators. I promotes arbitration in the increasingly frequent commercial relations between the two kingdoms. It was created within the framework of the third plenary session of the Spanish-Moroccan Forum of Lawyers, within the European Arbitration Association, with the aim of offering greater legal certainty and confidence in trade relations between Spain and Morocco.
In November 2013, its revised regulations (in Spanish and French) were presented in Casablanca, at the same time as the new headquarters in that city, the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Morocco.
The Court consists of lawyers from both countries, as well as international arbitrators. I promotes arbitration in the increasingly frequent commercial relations between the two kingdoms. It was created within the framework of the third plenary session of the Spanish-Moroccan Forum of Lawyers, within the European Arbitration Association, with the aim of offering greater legal certainty and confidence in trade relations between Spain and Morocco.
In November 2013, its revised regulations (in Spanish and French) were presented in Casablanca, at the same time as the new headquarters in that city, the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Morocco.