Mr Jaime Alonso > Uría Menéndez > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Uría Menéndez Offices
PRÍNCIPE DE VERGARA 187
PLAZA RODRÍGUEZ URÍA
28002 MADRID
Spain
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Mr Jaime Alonso
Work Department
Corporate Crime and Internal Investigations.
Career
Jaime Alonso joined Uría Menéndez as a partner in 2013. He previously worked for Estudio Jurídico Rodriguez Mourullo, one of Spain’s most renowned criminal law firms.
Based in the Madrid office, he specialises in white collar crime and, in particular, crimes related to listed companies and financial markets, tax fraud, urban planning and environmental crimes, and criminal compliance (compliance programmes, anti-bribery compliance, internal investigations, etc.).
He has represented clients as a criminal defence lawyer in many of the most important white collar crime cases in Spain in the last fifteen years, including some of the most relevant in the following areas:
- Tax evasion crimes
- Offences related to financial and accounting matters involving listed companies
- Fraud
- Insider trading
- Urban planning and environmental crimes
- Offences relating to public servants and corruption
Languages
English; French.
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association.
Education
Law Degree, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1989.
Lawyer Rankings
Spain > White-collar crime
(Leading individuals)Boasting a wealth of experience in cases concerning money laundering, fraud, corruption and tax offences, Uría Menéndez is a key point of contact for clients, particularly financial institutions, seeking representation in the defence of high-profile criminal proceedings. The department is overseen by highly regarded Jaime Alonso, who specialises in white-collar crime matters, and Ismael Clemente, ‘an excellent professional’ who not only ‘studies cases carefully’ but is ‘brilliant in the way he defends them’. The ‘exceptional criminal lawyer’ Alberto Gómez Fraga also stands out.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Environment
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Private equity
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- White-collar crime