Miguel Checa, Of Counsel at KINSHIP, holds a Doctorate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and is Professor (Profesor Titular) of Private International Law. He has more than 30 years of academic experience at Spanish universities, a career he has combined with over 15 years as an advisor in various law firms, mainly in international litigation, 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 and book chapters published by leading Spanish legal publishers (Aranzadi, Tirant, Marcial Pons, Atelier, etc.) and articles in specialised legal journals (Spanish Yearbook of International Law, Rivista italiana di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, etc.). His work focuses especially on the intersection between Comparative Law and Conflict of Laws in areas such as contract law, trusts, family law, and international succession.
Miguel is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Most relevant projects:
- Assistance to a Swiss executor in the processing of an estate with multijurisdictional elements in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- Support to a Spanish executor in proceedings challenging a testamentary disinheritance.
- Design of an international procedural strategy to protect real estate assets in Spain against extraterritorial orders issued by English courts in divorce proceedings.
- Defence of a trust established abroad against the challenge of an inheritance division based on forced heirship rights.
- Preparation of legal opinions before Spanish courts in Private International Law matters.
- Expert witness in family law matters and affidavits on Spanish succession law before British courts.
