Mrs Patricia Vidal > Uría Menéndez > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Uría Menéndez
PRÍNCIPE DE VERGARA 187
PLAZA RODRÍGUEZ URÍA
28002 MADRID
Spain
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Work Department

Competition and EU Law.

Career

Patricia Vidal joined Uría Menéndez in 1996 and she is a partner of the firm since 2015.

For the last 23 years her practice mainly refers to EU law and EU and Spanish Competition Law, with special focus in competition litigation before the Spanish and the EU courts. She has a wide experience in merger control (including multijurisdictional filings) and national and international cartel cases (including leniency programs). She also has vast experience in international agreements (purchasing/selling strategic alliances), state aid issues and abuses of dominance and more prominently in the last years, in antitrust damage claim litigation in Spain.

Patricia is a regular lecturer on EU and Competition Law and has been for 10 years academic director of an LLM at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE). She has written several articles and books on Competition Law.

She is the Elected Chairman of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition.

Languages

English; French.

Memberships

Madrid Bar Association; Spanish Association for the Study of European Law (AEDEUR); Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition (AEDC). Member of the board since 2014; European Competition Lawyers Forum (ECLF), participating in several working groups and papers produced for the European Commission; American Bar Association.

Education

Law Degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1994; LL.M. in EU Law (European Business Law), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge-Chelmsford, 1995.

Lawyer Rankings

Spain > Industry focus: Food

Uría Menéndez handles a plethora of matters related to the food and beverage industry. The team ‘covers all relevant legal aspects on an excellent professional level’, advising sector-related domestic and international clients on M&A, joint ventures, marketing issues, IP, distribution matters and unfair competition. Based in Barcelona, Montiano Monteagudo brings together experience in IP, contract, competition and corporate law, while Francisco Javier García is noted for his expertise in M&A, litigation and regulatory issues involving the food industry. Other noteworthy practitioners include Borja Sainz de Aja, a key contact for IP and data protection matters, and Patricia Vidal, who focuses on competition law.

Spain > Industry focus: Manufacturing

Uría Menéndez provides a ‘full portfolio of services’ to clients from the manufacturing sector, covering areas as broad as corporate, competition and IP law as well as regulatory issues. Noted for his extensive experience in commercial, IP and competition matters, Borja Sainz de Aja leads the team in Madrid alongside Patricia Vidal, who shines in competition mandates. In Barcelona, the team is jointly overseen by Jamie Calvo, an environmental and public law specialist, and Christian Gual, who takes the lead on contentious mandates, including product liability claims.

Spain > EU and competition

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