Miguel Checa, Of Counsel at Kinship, holds a PhD in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a Professor of Private International Law. He has 30 years of academic experience in Spanish universities, combined with more than 15 years as an advisor to different law firms, mainly in cross-border estate planning and international family law, including complex cases of parallel litigation before Spanish and foreign courts.
He is the author of more than 50 academic publications, including monographs, book chapters and articles in leading publishers and legal journals specialising in Private International Law, in particular on the intersection between Comparative Law and Conflict of Laws in the areas of contracts, trusts, Family Law and international successions.
Miguel is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
Recent relevant projects:
- Advising T.M.C. Asser Instituut (The Hague) on matrimonial property regimes and inheritance.
- Advising a Swiss executor on the handling of an inheritance with multi-jurisdictional elements in Switzerland, the UK and Spain.
- Advising a Spanish executor in proceedings challenging a testamentary disinheritance.
- Drafting of the international procedural strategy for the defence of real estate assets located in Spain against extraterritorial orders issued by English courts.
- Advising on an international inheritance procedure for the defence of a trust set up abroad against the challenge of an inheritance partition based on the rights of the legitimated beneficiaries.
- Advising in parallel litigation situations in different jurisdictions in Family and Inheritance Law.
- Drafting legal opinions as an independent expert before the Spanish Courts in matters of Private International Law and before the British Courts in matters of Spanish family and inheritance law.
