The Professionals
José Luis Barrera Llorca
Partner. Director of Barcelona
Main area of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Financial crisis situations: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
More than 25 years of experience, having advised and intervened in a multitude of company acquisitions, transfer of assets and businesses, financing and refinancing of business groups and advising family offices
He is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of various companies, some of which are listed.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona.
PhD in Law from the Universities of Ramon Llull (ESADE Law School, Barcelona), Deusto (Bilbao) and Pontificia de Comillas (Madrid).
Management Development Programme (PDD) by IESE, University of Navarra.
Master’s Degree in Research in Legal Sciences from ESADE Law School.
Master’s Degree in Taxation and Tax Consultancy from the Centro de Estudios Financieros (CEF).
Postgraduate course “Companies in Crisis: Prevention, Restructuring and Creditors’ Meeting”. Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
Teaching activity
Associate Professor of Civil Law at ESADE Law School (Barcelona).
Languages:
Spanish / Catalan / English
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / jlbarrera@cortes-abogados.net
Laura Marín Martínez
Associate
Main area of practice:
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in proceedings, both in ordinary jurisdiction and in arbitration, in all types of civil and commercial disputes, both national and international, for companies in different sectors, including food, retail, construction, real estate, banking and hotels. He has also been involved in insolvency proceedings, advising both insolvent companies and creditors.
Academic background:
Law Degree in Law from ESADE, Ramon Llull University.
Master’s Degree in Law (specialising in Business Law) from ESADE, Ramon Llull University.
University exchange at the Panthéon Assas University (Paris II).
Languages:
Spanish/Catalan / English / French
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / lmarin@cortes-abogados.com
Belén Mora Capitán
Partner
Main area of practice:
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
During his more than twenty-five years of practice, he has provided advice and intervened in numerous legal proceedings, both in ordinary jurisdiction and in arbitration, in all types of civil and commercial disputes, both national and international. He is also an arbitrator at the Barcelona Arbitration Court.
Academic background:
Degree in Law, University of Barcelona.
PhD in Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Post-doctorate at the Istituto di Diritto Processuale Civile of the Univerità degli Studi di Milano.
Teaching activityand publications
Professor of Procedural Law, Pompeu Fabra University.
Lecturer on various master’s degrees and postgraduate courses in Civil Procedure Law, Criminal Law and Arbitration (UPF, UAB, UB, UV, IDEC, ICAB).
Author of books and publications on civil and criminal procedural law.
Languages:
Spanish/Catalan / French / Italian
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / bmora@cortes-abogados.net
Daniel Irigoyen Fujiwara
Partner
Main area of practice:
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Financial crisis situations: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
He advises and intervenes in proceedings, both in ordinary jurisdiction and in arbitration, in all types of civil and commercial disputes, both national and international.
He is a career magistrate-judge on leave of absence and a specialist in matters pertaining to commercial courts. Before joining CORTÉS, ABOGADOS, he worked, among other posts, at the Provincial Court of Barcelona and at Commercial Court no. 5 of Barcelona.
Throughout his career, he has participated as a speaker at dozens of conferences and symposiums on procedural, civil, commercial, insolvency and industrial property law.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona.
Teaching activity and publications
Lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, at ESADE
Author of several publications.
Languages:
Spanish / Catalan / English
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / dirigoyen@cortes-abogados.com
Francisco Juanes Ródenas
Partner
Main area of practice:
Tax advice for large estates and corporations.
Professional experience:
Extensive experience in advising individuals and legal entities, corporate and family asset restructuring, as well as in verification procedures before administrative and contentious-administrative bodies, at various levels.
He is a member of the Treasury Technical Corps on leave of absence and during his professional activity in the AEAT, before joining CORTÉS, ABOGADOS in 2005, he worked in Inspection Units and in the Regional Crime Unit in Madrid. Member of the Madrid Bar Association.
Academic background:
Degree in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Publications:
Lecturer in various forums and co-author of publications of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) and others in the field of tax law.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / fjuanes@cortes-abogados.com
Isabella d’Empaire Altimari
Lawyer
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy
Commercial operations and transactions
Professional experience:
His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, as well as financial and banking law. He is regularly involved in the secretarial work of the board of directors of listed and unlisted companies.
Academic background:
Law Degree with a Diploma in International Business Law from the University of Navarra, graduating with the “Honors Program”.
Double Master’s Degree in Business Law and Access to the Legal Profession at the University of Navarra.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / idempaire@cortes-abogados.com
Daniel Campos Navas
Vice-president and senior partner
Main areas of practice:
Economic Criminal Law.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in legal proceedings relating to crimes against property and socio-economic order.
He is a career prosecutor on leave of absence and, before joining CORTÉS, ABOGADOS, he worked in the Public Prosecutor’s Office for twenty-five years, having held posts, among others, in the Economic Crimes Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of Madrid, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Drugs, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Audiencia Nacional, where he held the post of Coordinator of Economic Crimes.
He has been a member of the Financial Intelligence Committee for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offences, of the European Network of Joint Investigation Teams and of the Monitoring Committee of the ORGA/FGE Agreement.
He has been involved as an expert in numerous programmes to strengthen national institutions in the field of economic crime, organised crime and money laundering in various Latin American and Eastern European states.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Teaching activityand publications
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Economic Criminal Law at the URJC.
Regular speaker at legal forums.
Author of numerous articles and publications on economic and tax crime, organised crime, terrorism and money laundering.
Languages:
Spanish/English.
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / dcampos@cortes-abogados.com
Pilar Cortés Rivas
Partner
Main area of practice:
Advising large estates and corporations.
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
Over thirty years of practice in which he has actively participated in the defence and legal advice in some of the most relevant matters in the audiovisual communication sector.
In recent years, he has specialised in providing strategic and legal advice to large corporations and wealth funds, including Spanish and foreign family offices.
Academic background:
Degree in Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. L.L.M.
Master Degree in Law (European Law and International Private Law), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). University of London.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / pcortes@cortes-abogados.com
Antonio Velázquez Ibáñez
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Commercial operations and transactions
Professional experience:
He advises and intervenes in proceedings, both in ordinary jurisdiction and in arbitration, in all types of civil and commercial disputes, both national and international.
He is a member of the Spanish Group of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) and a leading specialist in intellectual and industrial property, unfair competition and advertising law.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the Instituto de Empresa (IE)
Specialisation Course in Industrial Property Law Universidad San Pablo-CEU.
Teaching activity and publications
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Business Law at the University of Alcalá (2006-present).
Associate Professor (2000-2007) of Industrial Property Law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Author of several articles in national and international publications.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / avelazquez@cortes-abogados.com
Luis J. Cortés Domínguez
Founding member and President
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy
Commercial operations and transactions
Financial crisis situations: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
Strategic advisor to large listed and family-owned companies. He has participated in numerous national and international transactions and operations of great importance, complexity and difficulty.
He is a national and international arbitrator, as well as a former Member of the Advisory Committee of the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV).
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the University of Granada.
Doctorate in Law from the Universitá di Bologna (Italy).
Professor of Commercial Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and Alcalá University (Madrid).
Teaching activity and publications
Extraordinary Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE).
Director of the Master’s Degree in Business Law at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) / International Centre for Financial Studies (CIFF).
Visiting Professor at Miami University (Florida, U.S.A.)
Author of books and articles on company law, commercial contracts and financial markets.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Derecho Mercantil
Languages:
Spanish / English / French / Italian.
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / Personal assistant: Silvia López: slopez@cortes-abogados.com
Patricia González Retortillo
Lawyer
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy
Commercial operations and transactions
Professional experience:
His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, as well as financial and banking law. He is regularly involved in the secretarial work of the board of directors of listed and unlisted companies.
Academic background:
Double degree in Law and Business Administration and Management at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Double Master’s Degree in International Business Law and Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00/ pgonzalez@cortes-abogados.com
Alejandra Fdez. de Aragón
Lawyer
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: Corporate governance, development and advocacy.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and acts in corporate and company law, company acquisitions, company mergers, real estate law, securities market, national and international commercial contracts and national and international arbitration.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law and in Political Science and Administration from Pompeu Fabra University.
LLM in Public International Law at the University of Leiden with a specialisation in international arbitration.
Master’s Degree in Law from the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid
Postgraduate degree in Commercial Legal Practice from the Barcelona Bar Association.
Languages:
Spanish / Catalan / English / French / German
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / afernandezdearagon@cortes-abogados.com
Andrés Turiel Miranda
Lawyer
Main area of practice:
Economic Criminal Law.
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in legal proceedings concerning crimes against property and socio-economic order.
Academic background:
Double degree in Law and Philosophy.
Master’s Degree in Business Law from the University of Navarra.
Specialisation course in Criminal Procedural Law by the Centro de Estudios Financieros.
Special Course in Internal Investigations and Forensics by the School of Legal Practice of the Complutense University of Madrid.
Languages:
Spanish / English / German / French
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / aturiel@cortes-abogados.com
Luis Alberto Ibañez Galera
Associate
Main areas of practice:
Economic Criminal Law.
Professional experience:
More than 15 years of experience advising and intervening in legal proceedings relating to crimes against property, socio-economic order, workers’ rights and natural resources, and developing and implementing regulatory compliance and crime prevention programmes.
Academic background:
Degree in Law from the University of Granada (extraordinary end-of-degree prize).
Expert Course in Legal Practice of the Granada Bar Association.
Master’s Degree in Improvement of Legal Skills at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE).
Master’s Degree in Corporate Legal Consultancy from the Instituto de Empresa (IE)
Teaching activity:
Professor of Economic Criminal Law on the Master’s Degree in Corporate Legal Consultancy at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2017.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / libanez@cortes-abogados.com
Ana Sala Andrés
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Financial crisis situations: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
Extensive experience in corporate practice, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and domestic and international arbitration.
In addition to being a leading expert in corporate governance of listed companies, she has participated in the restructuring and refinancing of national and international corporate groups, advised family offices in the development of their activities and participated in IPOs and takeover bids in recent years.
She is Secretary of the Board of Directors of SACYR, S.A., INDRA Sistemas, S.A., and a director of TELEFÓNICA, S.A.
Academic background:
Degree in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Master’s Degree in Comparative Law, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
LL.M. University of California at Berkeley (USA).
PhD in Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Teaching activityand publications
Assistant Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Director of Law Studies at the Virtual University UOC, Barcelona.
Author of books and publications on commercial law.
Languages
Spanish / Catalan / English.
Contact:
+34 93 414 09 12 / asala@cortes-abogados.com
Eva Nieto Garrido
Of Counsel
Main areas of practice:
Administrative Law and Regulated Sectors.
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in civil, criminal and contentious-administrative proceedings, and advises on legal-administrative and constitutional issues.
She is Professor of Administrative Law and lecturer in European Union Law at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of Toledo (UCLM).
She has been a lawyer at the Constitutional Court for 9 years (2005 to 2014).
Academic background:
Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (1991).
PhD in Law from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (1996).
Publications:
Author of eight monographs and fifty articles and book chapters on administrative law and constitutional law, especially fundamental rights, and European Union law.
Languages:
Spanish/ English/ Italian
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / enieto@cortes-abogados.com
Natalia Garzón Pacheco
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Tax advice for large estates and corporations.
Professional experience:
He provides tax advice to individuals, large estates and corporations, regularly intervening in the restructuring of companies and family estates, as well as in consultation and verification procedures before administrative and contentious-administrative bodies at various levels. He also practices in the area of offences against the tax authorities.
Before joining CORTÉS, ABOGADOS, she held various positions of responsibility within the State Tax Administration Agency, as well as positions of General Management and Board Member in both public and private companies. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Elcano Royal Institute from 2004 to 2009.
He is a member of the Council for the Defence of the Taxpayer at the Ministry of Finance.
Academic background:
Degree in Economics and Business Studies, University of Seville. Erasmus scholarship at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Degree in Law, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Fiscalis HM Customs and Excise, Southampton, UK.
Distinguished graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies.
Languages:
Spanish / English / French.
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / ngarzon@cortes-abogados.com
Salvador Díaz La Chica
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy
Commercial operations and transactions
Financial crisis situations: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and financial and banking law. During his more than twenty years of experience, he has been involved in many corporate transactions, sale and purchase of listed and unlisted companies and restructurings .
Academic background:
Degree in Law, University of Granada.
PhD in Law, Universidad CEU San Pablo.
LL.M. in Commercial Law, Cambridge University, (UK).
LL.M. in Civil Contractual Law, Heidelberg Universität (Germany).
Teaching activity:
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Business Law at the University of Alcalá (Madrid)/International Centre for Financial Studies (CIFS).
Visiting Professor at ESAN University in Lima (Peru).
Languages:
Spanish / English / German
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / sdiazdelachica@cortes-abogados.com
Ana María García Expósito
Lawyer
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: corporate governance, development and advocacy
Commercial operations and transactions
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts
Professional experience:
More than twenty years of Professional experience: in the practice of law; she has extensive experience in advising companies, bankruptcy proceedings and the banking sector, being an expert in banking law and financial markets, industrial and intellectual property, unfair competition, advertising law and corporate insolvency.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the University of Alcalá (UAH). Number 1 in her class and winner of the Extraordinary Degree Award.
PhD in Law from the University of Alcalá (UAH), with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude
Professional specialisation course in Civil and Commercial Mediation by the UNED
Teaching activity and publications
Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá (UAH) in the area of Commercial Law since 2002.
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Public Prosecutor’s Office at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).
Professor of various postgraduate courses and lectures on Commercial Law at the UAH.
Lecturer in various research projects in the financial markets sector.
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / amgarcia@cortes-abogados.com
Marta Marrero Fernández-Cid
Lawyer
Main areas of practice:
Economic Criminal Law.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in legal proceedings concerning crimes against property and socio-economic order.
Academic background:
Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Advanced Specialisation Course in Criminal Law by the Madrid Bar Association.
Higher University Course in Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Languages:
Spanish/English
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 /
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: Corporate governance, development and advocacy.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Financial crisis situation: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
During his more than thirty years in practice, he has been involved in numerous important transactions in corporate and company law, the securities market, national and international commercial contracts, company financing and refinancing, approval of refinancing agreements, insolvency proceedings, commercial litigation and national and international arbitration.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Master’s Degree in Public and Private International Law from the International Court of Justice of the United Nations.
Languages:
Spanish / English / French / Portuguese
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / mmarrero@cortes-abogados.com
Carlos L. Rubio Soler
Managing Director
Main areas of practice:
Administrative Law and Regulated Sectors.
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in civil, criminal and contentious-administrative proceedings, and advises on legal-administrative and constitutional issues.
He is a State Lawyer on leave of absence and before joining CORTÉS, ABOGADOS, he worked as a State Lawyer before the Courts and Tribunals of Barcelona and Madrid, and in the Legal Service of the State Tax Administration Agency.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the University of Valencia.
Publications:
Co-author of several publications on administrative and tax law.
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / crubio@cortes-abogados.com
Antonio Pedrajas Cortés
Partner
Main area of practice:
Litigation: Courts of Justice and Arbitration Courts.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in litigation before the commercial and civil courts, as well as in national and international arbitration. He specialises in claims arising from corporate and banking contracts.
Academic background:
Degree in Law, University of Granada
LL.M. in Corporate Legal Consultancy (M.A.J.) from the Instituto de Empresa I.E. BUSINESS SCHOOL MADRID (1995).
Languages:
English / Spanish
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / apedrajas@cortes-abogados.com
Jaime Cano Ruiz
Partner
Main areas of practice:
Corporate advice: Corporate governance, development and advocacy.
Commercial operations and transactions.
Financial crisis situation: refinancing, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional experience:
During his more than thirty years in practice, he has been involved in numerous important transactions in corporate and company law, the securities market, national and international commercial contracts, company financing and refinancing, approval of refinancing agreements, insolvency proceedings, commercial litigation and national and international arbitration.
Academic background:
Graduate in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Master’s Degree in Public and Private International Law from the International Court of Justice of the United Nations.
Languages:
Spanish / English / French / Portuguese
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / jaimecano@cortes-abogados.com
Ingrid Jaquet Solé
Lawyer
Main area of practice:
Tax advice for large estates and corporations.
Professional experience:
He regularly advises and intervenes in the restructuring of companies and family estates, as well as in administrative and contentious-administrative proceedings at various levels.
Academic background:
Double degree in Law and Business Administration and Management from Pompeu Fabra University.
University exchange in B.B.A. at HEC Montreal.
Master’s Degree in Taxation and Tax Consultancy and Advanced Specialisation Course in Tax Procedures from the Centro de Estudios Financieros.
Languages:
Spanish / Catalan / Aranese / English / / Spanish /
Contact:
+34 91 563 48 00 / ijaquet@cortes-abogados.com
Ezequiel Miranda Gimenez R.
Of Counsel
He joined CORTÉS, ABOGADOS in 1993 and has been a Partner at the firm since 2013. He is currently Of Counsel at Cortés Abogados.
Law degree, University of Barcelona (1988). Master in Economics and Business Administration (MBA), IESE, University of Navarra (1993). Corporate Law and Tax Law, Abat Oliba-CEU University (1991). The Western Institutions, University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) (1991).
Professor of Procedural Law in the Master of Law program at Abat Oliba-CEU University, in the School of Legal Practice of the Terrassa Bar Association, in the Judicial School (bankruptcy law), the Course on Commercial Law of the CGPJ 2004/2005, for Judges and Magistrates, and the Master of Business Law at the University of Alcala in Henares.
Co-author of the Commentary on Spanish Commercial Code published by Atelier.
He practices in the areas of Civil and Commercial Law and Procedural Law, with extensive experience in advising companies, contracts and litigation before the Courts or in Arbitration proceedings, of great complexity and economic significance. Specialist in appeals or procedural infringement before the Supreme Court.
Spanish/English/Catalan.