Jorge Angell

Senior Partner

Jorge Angell is the senior partner of LC Rodrigo Abogados, and specialises in corporate and commercial law, insurance and reinsurance law, private international law, litigation and arbitration. He graduated in law in 1971. He is a member of the Madrid (Spain) and Lima (Peru) Law Societies.

He frequently acts as an expert in Spanish law before foreign courts, especially English and US courts, and as arbitrator and party counsel in domestic and international arbitrations.

He is an associated member of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid. He is listed in the arbitrators’ roster of the Madrid Law Society and of the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima. He is a member of ICC Spanish National Committee, the London Court of International Arbitration, the European-Latin American Arbitration Association and the Spanish Arbitration Club.

He was formerly chairman of the Reinsurance Working Party of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA) and is currently honorary chair. He is a member of the following LPD Committees of the IBA: Business Organisations, Insurance, Litigation (co-chair for 2006 to 2007) and Arbitration. He is also a member of the FDCC and current International Rep for Spain, vice chair of the International Activities Committee and former vice chair of the Reinsurance, Excess and Surplus Lines Section. He is also a member of SEAIDA (the Spanish section of AIDA); and the Credit Insurance Working Party of AIDA, as well as an adjunct member of the International Association of Claim Professionals (IACP).

He was nominated in the 2001 Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers, the 2002, 2004, 2006, 2015–2017 and 2019 editions of Expert Guide: Insurance and Reinsurance, and the 2013–2019 editions of Expert Guide: Commercial Arbitration. He has also been nominated in Who’s Who Legal: Litigation (2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014–2019) and Who’s Who Legal: Insurance and Reinsurance (2007, 2008, 2010-2018).

He speaks Spanish and English fluently.

All Sessions by Jorge Angell

Buying Silence: The Rise of Lawfare (Incl. Against Catalan Politicians)

Poniente I & II

In this session, lawyers David Hooper and Jorge Angell will discuss the growth of Lawfare - where  states, oligarchs, kleptocrats, fraudsters and politicians from Russia, the former Soviet Republics, the USA, Malta, Germany, Sweden and Malaysia use the law, their financial muscle and criminal means to try to silence their critics.  This is the aggressive world of SLAPP actions.    Victims are writers, investigative journalists, newspapers and the general public. David Hooper will describe what it is like to be the victim of hacking and a SLAPP action and how research  shows that hacking and the use of Pegasus has increased. Jorge Angell will explain the importance of the legal actions against Catalan politicians for an alleged conspiracy to break up the Spanish territory and secure independence for Catalonia.