Isabel Margarit

LEGESTHORSE was founded in 2005 by Isabel Margarit, who got her Law Degree in the University of Barcelona on 1990, and is a member of the Barcelona’s Bar Association (no. 19177) since 1992. Isabel Margarit has experience on international commerce and contract law, urban and land law, sports law and animal welfare law. She holds a post-graduate degree in Urban Execution Systems (UAB-2004) and a Master’s degree on Sports Law (ICAB 2010-2011), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in International Sports Law.

In addition to Catalan, her mother tongue, and Spanish, Isabel speaks fluent English and French.

Isabel Margarit has merged her passion as an active rider in dressage competition and her nearly 30 years of professional experience, providing assistance, legal advice and defence in the equestrian sector. She has successfully defended a large number of cases related to horse transport or riding accidents, purchase contracts and termination thereof, sports discipline and doping cases and urban plans for the construction of new riding centres or the adaptation of existing facilities to the regulations in force.

The equestrian sector is increasingly on the rise and more internationalised, so the often-complex situations you may find in the national and international equine sector are vaster. Today, horses are handed to expert riders for competition or reproduction purposes, or to amateurs for learning and practising, they are shared by several owners… Furthermore, the sector is getting more regulated both in animal welfare law with respect to equestrian facilities and sport rules, specially related to the sports professions. The ignorance of the urban planning rules frequently causes huge problems to the owners of riding centres, aggravated by the ignorance of the authorities about the needs and requirements of this kind of facilities. For this reason, it is essential to rely on a Lawyer, not only expert in these legal areas, but also with a deep knowledge of the equine sector, as the intervention of an animal with such special behaviour and needs may complicate many situations.

LEGESTHORSE collaborates with riders, veterinarians, architects and agricultural experts to provide our clients a complete assistance not only on the legal area, but also in all those questions that have legal influence, from the technical and veterinarian perspective, on the activities carried out in the equine world.

Furthermore, LEGESTHORSE has an extense network of contacts with prestigious law firms in different European countries, as well as in America, Africa and Asia, which allows us to offer our clients a stronger position and security in case of lawsuits before foreign tribunals, as well before the Spanish ones for our foreign clients if they are obliged to go to court in Spain.