Profile
Jorge Azagra joined Uría Menéndez in 2012 and was appointed partner in January 2026. Between March and September 2017, he was seconded to the London office of Slaughter and May.
Jorge has been president of the board of the Barcelona Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee since March 2025 (previously, he was a board member between May 2021 and January 2025). He is also a member of the corporate working group of the Madrid International and Ibero-American Arbitration Centre (CIIAM) and of the Corporate Arbitration Commission of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club (CEIA), and a civil law lecturer at the School of Law of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and at ESADE.
His practice focuses on advising and representing domestic and foreign companies in pre-litigation matters and disputes before the Spanish courts and before national and international arbitral tribunals, and he also acts as an arbitrator. He advises on corporate law and civil and commercial contract law matters, as well as on insolvency matters (including the acquisition and disposal of production units of companies in insolvency proceedings) and restructurings.
Jorge is also a pro bono counsel for a national foundation.
Education
- Law Degree, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 2012
- Business and Management Degree, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 2010
Professional associations
- Barcelona Bar Association
- Club Español e Iberoamericano de Arbitraje
- Club Español de Litigación de los Negocios
- Asociación por el Fomento del Arbitraje
Teaching activity
He is a civil law lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 2016 and at ESADE since 2025. He also teaches arbitration at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya since 2021. He has also taught courses on Arbitration at, among other institutions, the Spanish Judicial School of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Universitat d'Andorra.
