Ana Souto Delibes is Counsel in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution (L&DR) practice at Evergreen Legal and has more than 30 years of professional experience in this area.
Ana Souto Delibes is Counsel in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution (L&DR) practice at Evergreen Legal and has more than 30 years of professional experience in this area.
Ana specialises in civil, commercial and criminal litigation and in arbitration.
She has extensive experience in procedural matters, particularly acting as lead counsel in civil, commercial and criminal litigation (First Instance, Appeal, cassation appeals, review and extraordinary appeals for procedural infringement, interim measures and enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments) in:
Commercial law (international sale of goods contracts, distribution, franchising, patents and trademarks, unfair competition, software, telecommunications).
Corporate law (challenges to corporate resolutions, shareholder disputes, sale and purchase of companies, corporate and individual actions for directors’ liability; piercing the corporate veil).
Insurance law (claims for damages under civil liability insurance).
Insolvency law (voluntary insolvency petitions).
Real estate law (real estate investment transactions, sale and purchase of properties, pre-emption rights, claims for liability and latent defects in construction, turnkey contracts, leases, adverse possession, double registration, double sale, among others).
Inheritance law (challenges to wills or testamentary clauses, disinheritance, formalisation of holographic wills).
Banking law (swaps and other derivatives, preference shares, floor clauses, interest limitation clauses, default interest, enforcement of security).
Economic criminal law (corporate offences, forgery, fraud, embezzlement, criminal insolvency, among others).
In arbitration, she has regularly acted as counsel in various arbitrations administered by different institutions (mainly CAM, Corte Española de Arbitraje, CIMA and SEA).
She has experience in the enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards, annulment proceedings against awards, court proceedings for appointment of arbitrators and for the adoption of court support measures in aid of arbitration.