Juan Bataller Grau is a full professor of Business Law at Universitat de València. He graduated in Law in 1992 at the University of Valencia, where he obtained an Extraordinary Award for his Degree. He did his PhD in 1996 at the same university, and his doctoral thesis received an Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

He is director of Revista de Derecho del Sistema Financiero (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi);  Chair of the Work Group of Governing and Supervising Private Insurances of AIDA-Spain, member of group «Restatement of Internacional Reinsurance Contract Law» (PRICL), and member of the Scientific Board of the Spanish Journal of Insurances (Revista Española de seguros). Furthermore, he was Member of Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) Member of COMMISSION EXPERT GROUP ON A EUROPEAN INSURANCE CONTRACT LAW (Commission Decision 2013/C 16/03 of 17 January 2013), member of the Valencian Community’s Observatory of Civil Law, founder member of the European network of excellence “Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law” (PEICL).

He has ample experience and worked in legal counselling and has been offering his services for 25 years to important economic corporations, prestigious business associations and different public administrations.

His research works comprise various Business Law domains which have resulted in several national and international scientific publications. We can mention: AA.VV. (dirs. BATALLER/QUINTANS), La distribución de los seguros privados, Marcial Pons, 2019; AA.VV. (dirs. BATALLER/PEÑAS), Un Derecho del seguro más social y transparente, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2017; AA.VV. (dirs. BATALLER/QUINTANS/VEIGA), La reforma del Derecho del seguro, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2016; AA.VV., Principles of European Insurance Contract Law, 2ª ed., OttoSchmidt, 2016; AA.VV.(dirs. BATALLER/VEIGA), La protección del cliente del mercado asegurador, Thomson Reuters Civitas, 2014; BATALLER GRAU, LATORRE CHINER, OLAVARRÍA IGLESIA, Insurance Law. Spain. 2ª ed.,International Encyclopedia of Laws, Ed. Walters Kluwer, 2014;  BATALLER GRAU, J., “The Harmonizsation of European Contract Law: The Case of Insurance Contracts”, Cunnecticut Insurance Law Journal, issue 21, 2014, págs. 149-171.

He has taught many masters in Spain and abroad, and has collaborated in training professionals in numerous conferences, in the Law Practice Courses held at the Bar Association of Alzira and Alcoi, and has also taught the Official Legal Profession Master at the Universitat de València.

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Miguel Gimeno Ribes (Valencia, 1988) studied Law (Hons), Business Administration (Hons), and Musicology. He also holds a Master of Science of Law (Hons), and a PhD in Law (Hons) from the University of Valencia. After a four-year period (2011-2015) as a Graduate Research Assistant while writing his doctoral dissertation, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Munich) as a Senior Research Fellow [Wissenschaftlicher Referent] (2015-2016) and worked in a research group on financial regulation [Otto-Hahn-Gruppe zur Finanzmarktregulierung], with which he continued to collaborate until 2020. Back in Spain, he has worked as an Assistant Professor (2016-2020), as a Tenured Assistant Professor (2020-2022), and as an Associate Professor [Profesor Titular] (since 2022) of Business Law at the University of Valencia.

Funded by the DAAD, the Max Planck Society, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, he has carried out research stays at the Universities of Munich, Oxford, and Florence, as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg). He has also participated in the postgraduate program at Harvard Law School as a Visting Researcher (VS/VR Program). His fields of research range from contract law to corporate governance, corporate finance, M&A, and financial regulation. His research methodology focuses on comparative law.

He has written three monographs on business acquisitions (La protección del comprador en la adquisición de empresa [The buyer’s protection in business acquisitions], Granada, Comares, 2013), leveraged buyouts (Endeudamiento empresarial y fusion de Sociedades. Contribución al estudio de la fusion apalancada [Corporate indebtedness and mergers. A contribution to the study of merger leveraged buyouts], Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2015), and director compensation (Régimen jurídico de los sistemas de retribución de los administradores sociales [Systems of director compensation], Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2021), as well as a number of contributions, including articles, book chapters, and book reviews, among which “Aproximación a la naturaleza jurídica del crowdfunding” [The legal nature of crowdfunding], Revista de Derecho Mercantil, no. 291, 2014, pp. 451–490; “La exclusión voluntaria de la cotización bursátil” [Voluntary delisting from stock exchanges], Revista de Derecho Bancario y Bursátil, no. 145, 2017, pp. 91–153; “Creditor Protection and Leveraged Buyouts in Europe: A Policy Approach”, in: Bruloot, D. (Ed.), Belgian and European Perspectives on Creditor Protection in Closed Companies, Cambridge, Intersentia, 2019, pp. 197–230; “Deber de lealtad y enriquecimiento injusto” [Duty of loyalty and disgorgement], Revista de Derecho Mercantil, no. 317, 2020, pp. 117–182; “La cogestión en sociedades y grupos transfronterizos” [Codetermination in cross-border companies and groups], Revista de Derecho de Sociedades, no. 60, 2020, pp. 225–272; “Estatuto jurídico del socio-mecenas” [Crowdinvestor’s legal regime], Revista de Derecho Bancario y Bursátil, no. 160, 2020, pp. 11–68; “La sumisión a arbitraje de las modificaciones estructurales” [Arbitration of company restructurings], Cuadernos de Derecho y Comercio, no. 74, 2020, pp. 45–88; “Consejeros de la minoría, conflicto permanente y pacto omnilateral”, [Minority directors, permanent conflict, and shareholders’ agreement] Revista de Derecho de Sociedades, no. 61, 2021, pp. 391–414; (together with Paula del Val Talens) “Setting the scene: Family Firms and Closed Companies in Spain”, in: Fleischer, H./Recalde, A./Spindler, G. (Eds.), Family Firms and Closed Companies in Germany and Spain, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2021, pp. 23–64; and “Uso y desuso de las sociedades de personas” [Use and disuse of partnerships], Anuario de Derecho Civil, vol. 75, no. 1, 2022, pp. 11–67. Besides, he has co-authored a comprehensive analysis of Spanish company law in the European context, namely (together with Johannes Liefke) “Spanien” [Spain], in: Jung, S./Krebs, P./Stiegler, S. (Eds.), Gesellschaftsrecht in Europa, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2019, pp. 1269–1402. On those topics, he has given a number of presentations at universities and other academic forums in Europe and in America.

He is currently the leading researcher of a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science on company law and climate change. In the past, he has been the leading researcher of two projects respectively funded by the BBVA Foundation (Shareholder activism) and by the Valencia Region (Shareholder Rights Directive II) and has been part of several research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and by the Max Planck Society.

He acts as a referee for a number of Spanish law journals.

He is an elected member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI).

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* Licenciado en Derecho con Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura y Doctor en Derecho por la Universitat de Valéncia (UVEG). Profesor de Derecho Mercantil de dicha Universidad desde 1981. Actualmente es Profesor Titular de Universidad de su Departamento de Derecho Mercantil “Manuel Broseta Pont”, del que ha sido Director entre 2013 y 2017.

• Fundador y miembro del IUDESCOOP (Instituto Universitario de Economía Social y Cooperativa de la UVEG). Fundador y miembro de GI+dPI (Grupo de I+D sobre Propiedad Intelectual e Industrial de la UVEG). Miembro del CIRIEC-España (Centro de Internacional de Investigación sobre la Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa). Miembro de SEAIDA (Sección Española de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho de Seguros), en cuyo seno participó en el Grupo de Ordenación y Supervisión de los Seguros Privados.
• Arbitro de la Corte de Arbitraje de Valencia de la Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Valencia, así como del Centro de Conciliación y Arbitraje de la Cámara de Industria, Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). Pertenece al Consejo Superior Arbitral y a la Junta de Gobierno de la Corte de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Valencia.
• Codirector hasta julio 2020 de la Revista Jurídica de Economía Social y Cooperativa (CIRIEC), de la que fue fundador en 1988. Ha sido codirector y coautor de la Sección de Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo de la Revista de Derecho Mercantil (desde 1980 hasta 2017). Codirector y autor de la Sección de Jurisprudencia de la Revista Española de Seguros (hasta el año 2005). Ha sido Director del equipo de Derecho Mercantil de la Base de Datos jurídica Tirant on line (Base de datos jurídica de legislación, jurisprudencia, formularios y doctrina) (hasta 2012)
• Su actividad docente se ha desarrollado desde 1980 en las Licenciaturas y Grados de Derecho, de Economía, de Dirección y Administración de Empresas y de Biotecnología y en la Doble titulación ADE/DERECHO de la Universitat de Valéncia, así como en diversos Masters en universidades españolas y extrajeras. Ha sido docente en los distintos Programas de Doctorado de su Departamento y del Programa de Doctorado “Derecho, Empresa y Justicia” de la UVEG y en la actualidad del Programa de Doctorado en Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Criminología de la Facultad de Derecho de la UVEG. Actualmente imparte docencia en los siguientes Masters: Master Oficial de Derecho, Empresa y Justicia de la UVEG; Master Oficial de Derecho de la Empresa de la UVEG; Master Oficial en Gestión Cultural de de UVEG; Master Oficial en Economía Social (IUDESCOOP-UVEG); MBA Junior Executive (EDEM Valencia); Master de Asesoría Jurídica de Empresa de la Fundación de Estudios Bursátiles de Valencia.
• Su actividad investigadora se ha centrado fundamentalmente, en Derecho de Seguros, Derecho de las profesiones liberales, Derechos de Sociedades, Derecho de la Economía social, Derecho de la Competencia y Propiedad Intelectual. Ha participado en (15) Proyectos de I+D tanto nacionales como autonómicos. En la actualidad participa en dos proyectos de I+D.
• Ha asesorado y asesora jurídicamente (Informes, Dictámenes y Opiniones) a entidades públicas y privadas en el marco del art. 83 de Ley Orgánica de Universidades.
• Entre sus publicaciones destaca su participación en: Insurance Law, ed. Kluwer, London, 2014; Tratado de arbitraje. Análisis del Derecho español y del Derecho boliviano (Dir. Silvia Barona), ed. Grupo Okipus, Cochabanba, 2014; * La Jurisprudencia sobre contrato de Seguro en la Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo (1980-2012), Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, 2012; Comentarios a la Ley de Arbitraje (Ley 60/2003, de 23 de diciembre, tras la reforma de la Ley 11/2011, de 20 de mayo), Coord: Silvia Barona Vila, Thomson- Civitas, 2011; Cooperativas: régimen jurídico y fiscal, Fajardo, Gemma (Coord), Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2011; Comentarios a la Ley de Fundaciones (Ley 50/2002, de 26 de diciembre), Coord. Jesús Olavarría, Tirant lo blanch, 2008; Derecho de los Seguros Privados, Marcial Pons, 2007; La Sociedad Anónima Europea domiciliada en España, Aranzadi, 2006.
• Actualmente es miembro del Claustro, del Consejo Social y del Consejo de Gobierno de la Universitat de Valencia, miembro de la Junta de la Facultad de Derecho y miembro de la Comisión de Coordinación Académica (CCA) del Master Oficial de derecho de la Empresa de la UVEG.

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Since joining the University on 1 January 1993 as a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, my scientific activity has been oriented primarily in five lines of research: i) structural Modifications, (ii) entities of the social Economy, iii) Contracts of financing and public-private partnerships, iv) Information Technology and communication and its application to the company law, (Cos), and v) Defence of competition.

I have been a part of numerous research projects I+D+I as a member or as principal researcher. I must mention 'E-Fraud and Communications Banking within the Union in the European union:Aspects of Procedural and Substantive', ANEP, 2011 -2014, 'social entrepreneurship to tackle the crisis of employment and social welfare. Subproject 1: Factors regulatory and public policies in the success of the social enterprise' between 2013 and 2015 (DER2012-39223-C02-01) and as a continuation of this, the second: 'Economy, Collaborative Economy and Social well-being' between 2016 and 2018 (DER2015-65519-C2-1-R), and 'the New challenges of the financial markets: the regulation of Shadow banking, capital-risk and FinTech, the protection of the customer and the exchange of information with relevance to tax', funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (DER2017-84218-C2-1-R), all funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The most recent project, is Project TED2021-129787B-I00, financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union "NextGenerationEU"/PRTR, called KEY SELF-CONSUMPTION COMMUNITIES IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION (POWERCOOP).
Of the mentioned research projects, I have obtained numerous results that I can include in each of the lines developed for the my since my incorporation to the university.
Do I have to specially mention the study of the entities of the social economy and the participation in projects of collaboration with the public private. A broad knowledge of the subject has allowed me to find the meeting points that I have been carrying out in numerous articles, book chapters and participation in days of specialisation.
Another of the lines is essential relative to information technology and communication and security in electronic transactions. In the first of the cases, I discuss the position of the partners and of third parties against the company, and the exercise of their political rights through, mainly, the corporate website, or other tools offered by the companies. A second line inside of the technologies of information and communication is the security of electronic transactions, the implementation of information technologies in the formalisation of contracts, and even the development of contracts autoejecutables, or Smart contracts, the porto student for more than fifteen years, and which now comes to be named blockchain, or strings of data.
Finally, in the field of the social economy entities, and in particular of social enterprises and the welfare state, I obtained numerous results, including conferences and studies on the subject of social clauses or choice of legal form for the development of a social activity, which have come to be analysed from the perspective not only corporate, but also from the perspective of the Law of Defence of Competition.
Currently I am in the Doctoral Program in Social Economy of the IUDESCOOP in the Master's degree in Business Law and Social Economy (2009 until today) of which I am a co-director in addition to having given lectures in several Masters are not officers of the UVEG.Finally, I must mention that I am the Director of the IUDESCOOP, Assessment anonymous of the scientific Journals of CIRIEC-España, and since 2009 I am evaluating in the ANEP and as far as the transfer of results, I have to mention that I have been a referee in the consumer arbitration Board of the Valencian Community for more than ten years, and member of the Committee for the Defence of Competition of the Valencian Community for 5 years.

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