Lawyers in Spain

Carlos Vérgez

Partner

CMS

Carlos de Cárdenas Smith

Uría Menéndez

Carlota Viola

Partner

Grau & Angulo

Carme Briera

Carme Briera is responsible for the Administrative Law Department in Barcelona and specialised in general Administrative/Public Law and regulated sectors such as telecommunications, audiovisual, energy, environmental, infrastructures and health.

Clifford Chance

Carmen Alonso

Carmen is a partner in the Madrid office. She joined Baker McKenzie as an associate for the Dispute Resolution Department in 2009, where she mainly practices in commercial and civil litigation. Before Carmen joined the Firm, she was a member of the litigation team at another renowned law firm in Spain. She has undertaken the legal counselling and procedural defense of both national and foreign companies in both litigation, arbitration (both domestic and international), out-of-Court claims and settlement agreements. She has a vast experience in the main areas of civil and commercial law, including, amongst others: contractual law, tort, insurance contracts, corporate disputes, agency and distribution agreements, insolvency matters and cross-border disputes, amongst others.

Baker McKenzie

Carmen Bascaran Fanego

Partner

ONTIER

Carmen Esteban

Carmen Esteban advises global private equity funds and multinational companies on their most sophisticated M&A transactions. Ms. Esteban leverages trusted relationships across the Spanish private equity market and extensive transactional experience to guide clients on: Mergers and acquisitions Asset acquisitions Joint venture investments She approaches each matter with pragmatism and a clear understanding of clients’ commercial goals. Ms. Esteban seamlessly integrates with the firm’s global platform and regularly leads on cross-border European transactions.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Carmen Fernández Vadillo

Partner

ONTIER

Carmen Fernández-Hontoria

Partner

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Carmen Jara

Knowledge Counsel, Madrid

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Carmen Profitós

Counsel / Head of Tax Litigation Spain

Ashurst LLP

Carmen Reyna

Carmen Reyna is an expert in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She advises national and international clients on all types of private equity deals. She has participated as a legal advisor, in minority and majority share acquisitions (MBOs, MBIs and BIMBOs) and in settled acquisitions (LBOs, LBIs and LMBOs).

Pérez-Llorca

Carmen Torres

Carmen is a partner at Simmons & Simmons’ employment practice in Spain, advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. She specialises in workforce restructuring and collective negotiations, high-level management conflicts and restructuring. Carmen is generally involved in complex litigation matters and advises international companies in compliance matters as well as in key strategic issues (ie - illegal lender of employees, TUPE transfers, etc.).

Simmons & Simmons

Carolina Albuerne

Uría Menéndez

Casto González-Páramo

As head of the Hogan Lovells Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice in Madrid, Casto has extensive experience advising international and local companies while representing them before the European Union and the Spanish Competition Authorities as well as in judicial procedures regarding all aspects of antitrust proceedings.

Hogan Lovells Spain

Catherine Bonzom

Associate Partner.

Elzaburu

Cecilia Pastor

Cecilia Pastor is highly knowledgeable in the areas of mergers, acquisitions and pharmaceutical law. She is a lecturer at ICADE on international agreements for the university’s Masters in Law degree program. Ms. Pastor is a regular contributor to the Spanish chapters of Promoting Medical Products in Europe & North America, Pharmaceutical Advertising, and other publications. She is a member of the Madrid Bar Association. Ms. Pastor focuses her practice on commercial contracting and corporate restructuring. She also provides skillful advice on international corporate restructuring and all aspects of international commercial agreements. She regularly works on matters related to the healthcare sector.

Baker McKenzie

Celia Zafra

Associate

Cuatrecasas

Christian Castella Hammerstein

Partner

SLJ Abogados

Christian Hoedl

Uría Menéndez

Cintia Bernhardt

Cintia Bernhardt is counsel in Bird & Bird's Intellectual Property department in the Madrid office. With more than 14 years of experience, Cintia provides strategic and client-oriented advice in relation to the management and enforcement of intellectual property rights and new technologies, focusing on the life science, telecommunications & media, fashion and e-commerce industries. Her work includes representing clients in patent, trade secrets, trademarks and copyright litigation before the Spanish courts. She has also a vast experience in drafting and negotiating contracts involving IP rights and new technologies. Cintia teaches in many universities and private entities such as Universidad Europea de Madrid, AENOR and Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She is also the author of several articles on Intellectual Property published in specialized publications and co-author of the books "Defensa corporativa y compliance" and "Tecnologías disruptivas" both published by Thomson Reuters in 2019. Prior to joining Bird & Bird in 2023, she was a senior associate at a Spanish law firm.

Bird & Bird

Claire Morel de Westgaver

Partner

ONTIER

Clara Carazo

Clara joined in 2018 after several years of experience in the Public Law departments of other renowned Spanish law firms, becoming part of Pérez-Llorca’s Land Planning and Environment practice.

Pérez-Llorca

Clara Jiménez

Clara Jiménez advises national and foreign clients within all branches of tax law and foreign trade. She specialises in obtaining tax rulings from tax authorities, in tax audits and appeals before judicial instances, in procedural matters as well as in direct and indirect taxation.

Pérez-Llorca