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Arantxa Geijo Jiménez
Arantxa Geijo Jiménez is a Spanish attorney who is an expert in public and private international law, with special focus on international criminal law, international human rights, international arbitration and INTERPOL matters.
She is the managing partner of Geijo&Associates SLP. She is also an associate professor of international law at the University of Valencia.
She is admitted to the List of Counsels and Assistants to Counsels of the International Criminal Court.
She is also a Special Counsel for the legal aid program on violence against women of the Valencia Bar Association.
Arantxa has previously served as counsel for the INTERPOL General Secretariat Office of Legal Affairs at their headquarters in Lyon, France, where she focused on complex international criminal arrest warrant requests (Red Notices) and represented INTERPOL in litigation, including challenges by individuals to the issuance of Red Notices against them. After her time at INTERPOL, Arantxa served as Senior Counsel at boutique law firm in London, where she focused on INTERPOL cases and other international law matters.
Prior to that, Arantxa served as an attorney at Baltasar Garzón Abogados, the International Justice Team of Amnesty International – International Secretariat, and the Governance Programme of the Spanish Agency for Development and Cooperation (AECID) in Guatemala. Arantxa also advised clients in numerous cases both at the national level in Europe, Asia, the Americas, Middle East and North and Central Africa, and in cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, and the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Arantxa has successfully represented numerous individuals before the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (an independent structure established to review individual challenges to Red Notices issued by INTERPOL), helping them navigate the complex and arcane rules and procedures of INTERPOL and securing the deletion of the Red Notices against them, thereby restoring their rights to travel freely internationally, without the attendant fear of illegal arrests or detention while crossing borders.
She was also an associate professor of Law at Valencia International University.
Elena Bescos Gracia
Elena is an Attorney and a member of the New York bar (2019) who specializes in public international law, including human rights, investment arbitration and international criminal law.
Prior to joining Geijo & Associates, she worked in a public international boutique law firm in London, where her work focused on INTERPOL matters and investment arbitration. She has achieved successful outcomes for several clients, including the cancellation of red notices and the granting of provisional measures by INTERPOL. She has also represented clients before international human rights tribunals such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee as well as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
She also worked at the UN headquarters in New York on corporate sustainability and international relations matters.
The Firm
Geijo & Associates is a boutique law firm that specialises in international law.
With almost 20-years’ experience in numerous jurisdictions around the world, the firm offers unique legal and strategic solutions to complex transnational problems.
The law firm provides expert advice on the following areas: INTERPOL Notices, International Criminal Law, White Collar Crime, International Human Rights Law, International Arbitration, International Contracts, Corporate Compliance.
