Juan Manuel Ramírez Cirera specialises in arbitration and international contracts. He has been involved in a variety of arbitration proceedings administered by the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CIMA, and CAS, involving matters such as construction, sale of goods, services, transport, corporate disputes, energy, and sports. Juan Manuel completed his PhD at Carlos III University of Madrid (2022–2025, Cum Laude by unanimity of the tribunal) with a thesis on the uniform law of EPC contracts, building on the CISG, under the supervision of Prof. Pilar Perales Viscasillas. He was awarded the highly competitive nationwide FPU grant funded by the Government of Spain and also received public funding to undertake three-month research stays at both the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL, Vienna, 2023) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT, Rome, 2024). During his years at Carlos III University, Juan Manuel taught commercial contracts to final-year undergraduate students (2023–2026) and coordinated the Master in International Advocacy (2025–2026), including its courses on commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. Since 2022, he has been coaching the UC3M Vis Moot team and coordinating Moot Madrid, the most prestigious international commercial arbitration competition in the Spanish-speaking world. Previously, he worked at a leading law firm in Madrid, Uría Menéndez (2021–2022). During his time at the firm, he was part of the international arbitration (commercial and investment-related) and litigation practice. He also collaborated with the transport practice, advising international clients on contractual, regulatory, and corporate matters, including M&A transactions.
Cum Laude by unanimity of the tribunal, Doctoral thesis
2025
Cum Laude, LL.M. in Business Law
2021
Dean Rogelio Pérez Burgos Prize, awarded to the best Law graduate born in Almería from any Spanish university
2020
- La admisibilidad de los convenios arbitrales «extraestatutarios» para la sumisión a arbitraje de la impugnación de acuerdos sociales (in Iurgium-Spain Arbitration Review)
2023
- El Reino de España frente a la aseguradora del buque Prestige: en 2024, ¿perdidos entre lo «adjetivo» y lo «sustantivo»? (in Revista Española de Seguros)
2024
- El enforcement de los objetivos climáticos mediante la litigación: de la responsabilidad estatal a la responsabilidad empresarial (in Sostenibilidad y Derecho)
2024
Lecturer on The Law of Commercial Contracts and Obligations, Carlos III University
2023 – 2026
Coordinator of the Master in International Advocacy, Carlos III University
2025 – 2026
Coach of the Carlos III University Vis Moot team
2022 – Present
Ph.D. in Law from Carlos III University of Madrid, Cum Laude by unanimity of the tribunal
2025
LL.M. in Business Law from University of Navarra, first of the cohort
2021
LL.M. in Legal Practice from University of Navarra, first of the cohort
2021