Miquel Roca

Miquel is qualified both in Spain and England, having received the LLB from the Barcelona University, the LLM in Shipping Law from the Barcelona Law Society (where he was awarded with a Distinction) and the LLM in Shipping Law from Cardiff University.

He is a member of the Spanish Maritime Law Association (Member of the Managing Board), the Catalan Maritime Law Committee, the     International Bar Association, Maritime and Transport Law Committee, and the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Marítimo. He is also visiting lecturer at The City Law School, The City University, London.

After working for the Legal Office of the Barcelona Port Authority, Miquel joined P&O Nedlloyd where he worked as an account manager. He was then retained by the United Nations in Vienna within the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law's (UNCITRAL) Transportation Law Working Group, Maritime Law Branch. Miquel also lectured Maritime Law at the Webster University of Vienna.

Miquel then returned to private practice, first in Hamburg and then in Barcelona, after which he moved to London where he practiced as a Solicitor acting for the main shipowners, freight forwarders, logistics operators, P&I’s, insurance companies and banks based in London and also for Spanish and Latin-American companies, both in court and in arbitration proceedings.

His most recent work includes advising a shipowner after the sinking of one of its vessels in the Mediterranean Sea; adivising a shipowner after a collision suffered by one of its vessels off the Bay of Biscay; counseling a marine recoveries company on the recover of the cargo of a shipwreck; directing the drafting commission of a new bill of lading for a leading European shipping group and directing two maritime proceedings in Washington, USA, for a leading shipping Spanish trader.

Miquel speaks English, Spanish, German and Catalan.

You can contact Miquel at mroca@bdlezo.com

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