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Paloma Alcón

Paloma Alcón is a Team Leader in the Real Estate Law Department of Baker McKenzie Madrid. She has more than 14 years of experience advising national and international funds in complex transactions involving the acquisition, sale, lease and construction of real estate assets, including logistics, commercial, residential, healthcare, student housing, and offices. Prior to joining the Firm, Paloma developed her career in multilateral organizations and international firms, including the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C., Unibail-Rodamco and Deloitte. She combines her practice with a solid academic background. Paloma has completed graduate studies at Georgetown University (LL.M.) and IE Business School. Paloma is recognized for her strategic vision, her ability to manage in demanding environments and her results-oriented approach. Clients and colleagues highlight her closeness, commitment and deep knowledge of the real estate market. She has also been recognized in the Legal 500 directory as a Leading Associate in the Real Estate department (2025). Paloma Alcón focuses her practice area on real estate law, advising national and international funds and investors in transactions involving the acquisition and transfer of real estate assets and companies, financing, sale and lease back, legal due diligence processes and regularization of the legal and registry status of real estate and assets, as well as real estate leasing and construction contracts.

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.

María Antonia Azpeitia

María Antonia Azpeitia heads the Firm’s Tax Litigation and VAT practice groups in Madrid. She is ranked as a leading practitioner in her field by Chambers Europe, and is highly regarded for her work on VAT matters. She is a regular lecturer in tax seminars and conferences, and contributor to economic newspapers and other specialized publications. Ms. Azpeitia practice covers all kinds of tax proceedings at the national and international levels. She is experienced in tax audits, voluntary disclosure proceedings, appeals before tax courts, such as the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. She also handles proceedings before the European Court of Justice, as well as formal complaints before the European Commission and Mutual Assistance Procedures under the applicable Tax Treaty. Ms. Azpeitia counsels Spanish and multinational companies on VAT and indirect tax matters, such as day-to-day advice, VAT planning, reorganization, acquisitions and obtaining tax rulings.

Javier Blázquez

Javier Blázquez is a partner of the Tax Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Barcelona. In 2018 and 2019 was on secondment in our San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. He became a partner in 2022. Javier is a frequent speaker on international tax planning programs. He focuses on advising domestic and international companies on tax issues, international tax planning, reorganizations, transactions and tax audits on international matters. He represents clients in various industries, including platforms and e-commerce, software, blockchain, payments, life sciences, retail and hospitality.

Laura Camarero

Laura joined the Dispute Resolution and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups of Baker McKenzie's Madrid office in 2008. She has also worked in the Firm's Chicago (2011) and London (2016) offices. Prior to joining the Firm, Laura worked in another leading Spanish lawfirm as an associate of the Civil and Commercial Litigation Department (2004-2008). Laura is the director of the Master's degree for access to the legal profession at the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB), where she also lectures on Insolvency Law. She also previously lectured on Insolvency Law and Civil Procedural Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and on Insolvency Law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). Laura focuses on restructuring negotiations and cross-border insolvencies, schemes of arrangement, and the acquisition of distressed debt and assets. She is also an expert in finding alternatives to filing for insolvency, avoiding directors' liability, reviewing agreements to minimize insolvency risks and claw-back proceedings. Laura also provides advice in civil and commercial litigation matters. Laura focuses on restructuring negotiations and cross-border insolvencies, schemes of arrangement, acquisition of distressed debt and assets. She assists in alternatives to filing for insolvency. ,review of agreements to minimize insolvency risks, claw-back proceedings as well as civil and commercial litigation. Laura also provides advice to avoid directors' liability.

Juan Pedro Cortés

Juan Pedro is a partner in the area of Criminal Litigation, Compliance & Investigations. His work mainly focuses on providing individuals and companies with advice regarding corporate crime, tax crimes, workers' rights, environmental law, fraud, as well as pre-litigation and preventive advice on criminal law, compliance and internal investigations. In addition, Juan Pedro has extensive experience in international legal cooperation, extraditions and European arrest warrants. Juan Pedro leads Baker McKenzie's Working Group on European Public Prosecution Office and he is a member of its multidisciplinary Cybersecurity and Compliance Team. Juan Pedro is Professor in the Master's program for Access to the Legal Profession at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICAI-ICADE), and also Professor in the Master's program on Cybercrime at Universidad de la Rioja (UNIR). Juan Pedro joined Baker McKenzie in April 2016. He began his professional career in 2010, as an associate in a law firm specialized in criminal matters. After two years at that firm, he joined the area of Criminal Litigation, Compliance & Investigations at another renowned firm, where he continued in the field of economic crimes for four years, until he joined Baker McKenzie in 2017. Over his professional career, Juan Pedro has participated in numerous highly mediatized cases, both as defender and prosecutor, they include: the Gürtel Case, the "Trama Púnica" case, the case involving collective redundancies in Andalusia, the CaixaNova case, the ZED Case, Bankia's IPO case, the "Operación Libero" case, and the Bandenia case. He has also defended several soccer players in criminal proceedings, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao, Fabio Coentrao or Ricardo Carvalho. He is a member of the advisory teams for several large multinational firms, such as Amazon, Google, Twitter and Siemens, providing them with counsel on compliance and crime prevention.

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Rossanna D\'Onza

Rossanna D’Onza is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Madrid office. With more than 25 years of experience, Rossanna leads the Firm’s Transactional Banking & Finance practice in Madrid. She has been acknowledged by the Latin Lawyer and Chambers & Partners directories as a leading lawyer in Insolvency & Restructuring and Projects, respectively, and as a leading lawyer in Banking & Finance by Legal 500. She is a member of the European R&I Steering Committee of Baker McKenzie. Rossanna focuses mainly on advising banks, alternative lenders and sponsor/borrower groups in a wide range of cross-border and local finance and restructuring transactions, including cross-border lending, debt restructuring and NPLs, project finance, acquisition finance and LOBs, real estate finance, trade finance, film finance and securitizations.

David Diaz

David Díaz is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s since 2004 and heads both the Employment & Compensation and Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid. He has significant experience litigating in labor courts and negotiations with unions. He is recognized in the field of employment law by Chambers Europe and Legal 500. In addition to his practice, Mr. Díaz regularly collaborates with economic newspapers, has co-authored several leading reference books on employment and is a regular speaker in industrial relations courses. As head of the Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid, holds extensive experience this area particularly in the football industry. Specifically he regularly advice professional athletes and clubs in all the matters related to negotiation of contracts and transfers and its compensation schemes. David also has wide experience in assisting foreign investors with interest in the European football industry. Mr. Díaz advises domestic and multinational companies on a broad range of labor and employment matters, with particular emphasis on union-related negotiations on a variety of issues including layoffs and relocations, collective bargaining agreements and equality plans. He is seasoned in major reorganization and restructuring processes, and has extensive experience advising on and litigating occupational and health safety issues and social security and pension liability matters, focusing on areas such as labour and employment benefit specialties, collective agreement negotiations, collective dismissals, major reorganizations and negotiations with works councils, trade unions, and public authorities, employment litigation, employment contracts, compliance, human resources, labour reorganizations and industrial disputes. He also has great experience on social security, local, national and European works councils, trade union recognition procedures and elections, employee's compensation, executive compensation, executive terminations, employment taxation, pensions, executive transfers, discrimination and privacy issues. Mr.Diaz has extensive experience in sports law and in particular in the soccer industry. In particular, he regularly advises Spanish and foreign clubs on the legal aspects of their operations, both in sports matters and in the day-to-day management of such organizations. Likewise, David regularly advises agents and intermediaries, both national and international, in all matters related to contracting, modification and termination of contractual relationships, providing advice on all legal aspects related to the transfer of sports players, agents and intermediaries, both national and international. He also has extensive experience in advising foreign investors with a potential interest in the European soccer industry on M&A transactions. He regularly participates in the Sports Law Forum organized by Fundación LaLiga, in the permanent seminar organized by the Association of Football Players organized by the Spanish Footballers Association (AFE) and ISDE and in other forums of debate and legal analysis such as FIDE. He is also a professor in the Master in Law applied to Football at LaLiga Business School, in the Master in Sports Law at UNIR and in the Master in Sports Law at UNIR.

Bruno Domínguez

Bruno Dominguez is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office and head of the Tax practice in Barcelona. He is also a member and has chaired our Wealth Management Practice Steering Committee in the EMEA region. Bruno has been coordinator of the Master of Laws in Taxation at the University of Barcelona, and associate professor at ESADE Business School. He has written several articles and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on business restructuring, transfer pricing, wealth management and taxation of family businesses. Bruno has extensive experience in tax planning and consultancy. He represents clients faced with tax inspections and court procedures in Spain, and advises family-owned businesses and multinationals with regard to business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, transfer pricing, and cross-border transactions. He has extensive experience in tax planning for high net worth individuals and families, including the structure and ownership of assets, wealth transfer, succession and gift planning, expatriation issues, voluntary disclosure procedures and general estate planning matters, as well as restructuring companies with family capital.

Alicia Franch

Alicia Franch is Team Leader in both the Dispute Resolution, Corporate Crime area and Compliance area at Baker McKenzie since September 2015. Previously, Alicia also worked in her same areas of expertise in other law firms. She has also worked as a professor in different law firms and colleges as well. Working as a lawyer on many types of proceedings (extraditions, European Arrest Warrants, proceedings before the European Public Prosecutor's Office and Spanish criminal proceedings) and undertaking work regarding corporate compliance. Experience in drafting and filing all sorts of criminal complaints and appeals, cross-examination of witnesses and defendants and attendance to oral trials and expert ratifications. Specialized in White Collar Crimes, such as crimes against the Public Treasury and Social Security, European Union subsidies fraud, crimes against the property, misappropriation, fraud, unlawful administration, bribery, fraudulent insolvencies, crimes against the environment, crimes against historical heritage, labor accidents, and felonies against the Public Administration, among others. Within Baker McKenzie's Criminal Law department, Alicia Franch plays a key role in handling complex and high-profile cases, particularly in the area of economic and corporate crime. Her practice encompasses a wide range of criminal proceedings, including extraditions, European Arrest Warrants, and domestic litigation, where she is known for her strategic litigation skills and procedural precision. Alicia frequently advises on corporate compliance frameworks, helping clients mitigate legal risks and align with regulatory standards. Her work is especially focused on offenses such as tax evasion, subsidy fraud, and crimes involving public administration and corporate governance. She is also deeply involved in trial advocacy, from drafting and filing criminal complaints to conducting cross-examinations and managing expert witness testimony. Her practice reflects a strong integration of legal rigor and practical insight, particularly in cases involving environmental liability, labor-related offenses, and protection of cultural heritage.

María Dolores Garayalde

María Dolores Garayalde has extensive experience as a trademark attorney. She is also seasoned in portfolio management, and has represented plaintiffs and defendants in infringement suits and counterfeiting cases before all major courts in Spain. In addition, Ms. Garayalde has authored numerous articles on the legal protection of trademarks, industrial designs and patents. Ms. Garayalde advises clients on trademark matters, unfair competition, copyright, design, patents and advertisement. She also has extensive experience advising on the IP aspects of corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, license agreements, technology transfer and software.

Fermín Guardiola

Fermín Guardiola has been a partner at Baker McKenzie since 1995. He heads the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group in Madrid and has over 20 years of experience in his area of practice. He is consistently recognized by Chambers Europe and Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in his field. In addition to his practice, Mr. Guardiola regularly collaborates with economic newspapers and has co-authored several reference monographs on labor and employment matters. He is a co-founder and director of Forelab, the prominent Spanish Labor Lawyers Association and also an arbitrator of the Madrid Bar Association Court of Arbitration. Mr. Guardiola advises domestic and multinational companies on a broad range of labor and employment matters. His practice is particularly focused on collective labor negotiations and litigation, especially in restructurings and layoffs resulting from mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Guardiola also has extensive experience in negotiating collective bargaining agreements, equality plans and executive terminations.

Carlos Hurtado

Carlos focuses on employment and employment benefits specialties; collective agreements negotiations; collective employee terminations (redundancy procedure); employment litigation; employment contracts; human resources; industrial disputes; social security; local, national and European works councils; trade union recognition procedures and elections; on-the-job training; occupational health & safety matters; mergers & acquisitions (employment and pension issues); workers compensation; employee benefits & executive compensation; executive terminations; employment taxation; pensions; executive transfers and immigration law. As member of the Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid, Carlos holds extensive experience in this area, and particularly in the football industry, where he regularly advices professional athletes and clubs in all the matters related to negotiation of contracts, transfers and compensation schemes, and has acted before football governing bodies and tribunals (FIFA / CAS) representing both players and clubs.

Carlos Martín

Carlos is a partner in the Firm's Corporate and M&A practice group in Madrid. His main fields of practice are capital markets, M&A and general Corporate law. Carlos has over 15 years of experience advising national and international clients on corporate law matters. In particular, he regularly advises on domestic and international capital markets transactions, including IPOs, capital increases and debt offerings, having been recognized as Next Generation Partner in Capital Markets: ECM by Legal 500. He also has extensive experience in private and public M&A transactions.

Paloma Martínez-Lage

Paloma is a partner in the Madrid office. She has over two decades’ experience gained both in‐house in the Corporate Affairs and Regulatory department of a mobile operator in Spain and in private practice at a Spanish Competition boutique law firm. Paloma has been recommended as a leading professional by various legal directories, including Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal Iberia. According to Chambers & Partners, clients appreciate that Paloma is "dedicated, hardworking, and pays a lot of attention to detail" (Europe Guide, 2018). Paloma's practice is focused on Spanish and EU Competition law with a deep knowledge of regulation, in particular in the telecom and energy sectors. She has wide experience in antitrust infringement procedures and damages claims, antitrust compliance, internal audits and preventive counselling in a broad variety of sectors, as well as merger control, working for private companies and public entities alike.

María Massó

María is a partner in the area of Criminal Litigation, Compliance and Investigations. Her work mainly focuses on advising in connection with the prosecution or defense in cases involving corporate crime, tax crimes, crimes involving property, public order, misappropriation, fraud, malfeasance or punishable insolvency, as well as pre-litigation and preventive counsel on criminal law and corporate compliance. Over her professional career she has come before the National Court on numerous occasions to advise clients as well as lead proceedings, acting at times as defender and others as prosecutor. In addition, she has led the criminal defense in proceedings involving the European Public Prosecutor's Office. She provides counsel to both national and international clients, helping them to develop, implement and update their compliance programs. She has extensive experience in leading and collaborating in internal investigations related to regulatory non-compliance. She also takes part in compliance training and awareness programs at different organizations. María joined the Economic and Criminal law Department of renowned firm in 2006. She joined Baker McKenzie's Litigation Department in 2009 and was appointed as partner of said department in 2017. Ranked in Band 3 by "Chambers and Partners", under the category of "White Collar Crimes" and she was mentioned as one of the "Top 10" criminal lawyers in the ranking published by "Iberian Lawyers". She was recently selected as one of the 20 Leading Women in the Spanish Legal Sector by the magazine "Economist & Jurist". She has been involved in the criminal defense of both companies and individuals in cases with a high media profile such as the Lezo Case, the Rato Case, the Villarejo Case, the Taula Case, the DEFEX Case, the Banco Popular Case, the Gürtel Case, the Rueda Case, the HSBC Case, etc.

Javier Menor

Javier Menor leads the Corporate/M&A Practice Group and a partner in Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office. He is also a member of the Firm’s Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Competition Practices Groups and has 20 years' experience in advising clients in these areas. He is recognized as one of the best lawyers in his field in Spain by the most prestigious directories, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. Javier joined Baker McKenzie in 2015 from an international law firm where he was the co-managing partner of the Barcelona office and a member of the global executive committee, in charge of Corporate/M&A at a global level. He is a professor of Competition Law at ESADE Law School and teaches the international contracts program at the Barcelona Bar Association. Javier has broad experience in advising international and domestic clients in the areas of corporate law, M&A, strategic alliances, private equity and competition. He advises companies operating in different industries including pharma, food and beverage, IT, retail and tourism. He also serves as secretary to the board and legal adviser in several Spanish companies controlled by multinational and domestic groups.

Antonio Morales

Antonio heads the Public Law, Infrastructure and Energy department at Baker McKenzie in Madrid since March 2019. Antonio is a State Attorney, on leave of absence, a recognised market leader in energy and natural resources and he has deep industry knowledge, creating trusted counsel relationships with global EMI players, having advised clients in the sector over the last 15 years. He is not only an expert in energy and infrastructure matters, but also one of the most recognised lawyers in the field of arbitration. During his time in the Spanish Administration, he served, among other senior positions, as the Secretary General of the Nuclear Safety Council. Antonio has extensive experience in legal advice and management of complex arbitrations in international, national and regional courts, where he has advised and represented important national and international companies, especially in the areas of energy, banking, aerospace, mining and infrastructures.

José María Méndez

José María Méndez is head of the Intellectual Property, Tech and Media department at Baker McKenzie Madrid and head of the EMEA IPTech practice. Mr. Méndez is recognized as a leader in his field by the most prestigious legal directories. According to Chambers Europe, José María Méndez "was born for copyright law" and “his style is oriented to being pragmatic and offers clear and easy to implement solutions." Jose María is hailed as an “expert in media and production” and considered “the king in audiovisual matters.” Clients describe Jose María as “very specialized and has unsurpassed knowledge of the audio-visual industry.” Jose María's practice focuses mainly on the media and tech industries. He advises clients on matters relating media and audiovisual laws, production, financing and distribution of content, creation of joint ventures and management of corporate deals for the media and entertainment sectors. He is also focused on the enforcement and protection copyrights and trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and transactions related to transfer of intellectual property assets. He is an specialist setting up financing for film and television productions and related regulatory issues for audiovisual projects, helping clients comply with both local and international media-related regulations. His clients include major national and international tech and media players, television and sports networks, telecom companies, OTT and SVOD service providers.

Ester Navas

Ester Navas has been a partner at Baker McKenzie since 2011. She joined the Madrid office in 2006 as an associate in the Commercial & Corporate department, where she focused her practice on commercial law, corporate restructuring and pharmaceutical matters. Ms. Navas wrote the Spanish chapters of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Pharmaceutical Advertising. Ms. Navas' practice focuses on corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial law.

Rodrigo Ogea

Rodrigo Ogea is Co-Managing partner of Baker McKenzie in Spain. He regularly advises corporations, family offices and funds in transactions and reorganizations. Recognized as one of the most prestigious lawyers by Chambers & Partners, Rodrigo is a member of the Advisory Board of CID/ICADE, of the Board of the American Business Council, of the Advisory Board of the Chairman of CEOE (Spanish Trade Board), as well as a member of the Tax Committees of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the US Chamber of Commerce in Spain. He has also been a trustee of the Foundation for Taxes and Competitiveness and the Spanish representative to the European Commission Expert Group for the Removal of Tax Obstacles for cross-border European Private Equity Investments. Rodrigo advises large companies, family groups and private equity funds on the structuring of investments and reorganizations. His practice also includes fund structuring: private equity, real estate, infrastructure or renewable energy, and structured finance transactions: project finance, asset finance and securitization.

Silvia Sáenz de Ormijana

Silvia, an experienced IP lawyer, currently heads the Litigation and Contractual IP team at Baker McKenzie Barcelona. Leading her team, she supports high-profile clients across various industries, ensuring the protection and enforcement of their IP rights. Silvia represents clients in pivotal IP cases before the Spanish courts (in civil and criminal cases) as well as before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. This has provided her with an in-depth understanding of European IP law and its application in cross-border disputes. Her work includes developing enforcement strategies and negotiating with diverse stakeholders on her clients' behalf, particularly in lookalike matters. Beyond enforcement, Silvia offers strategic advice on brand IP management, partnerships, licensing, and complex IP issues related to emerging technologies like e-commerce, social media and AI. Actively involved in the IP sector, Silvia attends industry events and contributes to thought leadership. She finds great satisfaction in mentoring and nurturing the talent within her team. Silvia also manages multijurisdictional projects for international clients, addressing IP and advertising risks across various territories. A member of the AIPPI association, she participates annually in its study questions. Furthermore, she serves as a professor at Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE), teaching industrial property law, and frequently gives talks and lectures at the ICAB and on courses focusing on unfair competition and trade secrets. She regularly publishes technical articles in specialized journals. Silvia's work involves representing clients in complex IP litigation and providing strategic counsel on IP matters to a diverse range of global clients. She specializes in developing and executing comprehensive enforcement strategies, managing global trademark portfolios, navigating intricate IP disputes, as well as drafting and negotiating sponsorship and event-related agreements across diverse industries. This includes significant work in lookalike matters, particularly within the luxury and Consumer Goods & Retail (CG&R) sectors. She also possesses solid experience in the e-commerce, internet, and technology sectors, as well as in cases involving parallel imports of proprietary medicinal and pharmaceutical products. Additionally, she is regularly part of the teams responsible for liaising on IP rights in M&A operations led by the Barcelona office, reviewing not only the due diligence part, but also the contracts part.

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.

Pelayo Puente

Pelayo advises international and national clients on a wide range of areas, including copyright advisory in contractual and litigious matters, negotiation of license agreements with a wide variety of collecting societies, development and production aspects of audiovisual projects, public policy, media regulatory and platform liability matters, the launch of new services and platform sections, image and publicity rights. He also advises international companies on text and data mining and the development and implementation of AI systems from a copyright and neighboring rights perspective. Pelayo combines a solid knowledge of his area of practice with a keen eye for risk assessment. His autonomy and good judgment has allowed him to work independently on a regular basis, including time as a secondee for a major OTT platform.

José Antonio Pérez

José Antonio is a lawyer with 29 years of experience in real estate, who combines his in-house private sector experience (Revlon) with his in-house public sector experience (hospital clinic), and his experience as a lawyer in major and mid-level law firms. José Antonio joined Baker McKenzie from his own law firm, a boutique firm dedicated to legal advice in real estate and focused on real estate development and investment, where he earned a name in the logistics industry as an adviser of international developer funds, general contractors and logistics operators. José Antonio is also knowledgeable about sectors such as hospitality, retail, healthcare and congress venues. He can act as lead lawyer and coordinating lawyer for other law firms and players in a transaction. José Antonio is a creative lawyer with project manager skills. He is business oriented with technical background, and is innovative in his approach to lawyering. He uses various cloud-computing technologies and collaborative work tools. He is a lawyer who thinks as an engineer. José Antonio has advised clients on development, investment, disposals and asset management, and has acted for international and local clients in various asset classes with eyes on industry market practice.

Patricia Pérez

Patricia Perez joined the Information Technology & Communications Department of Baker & McKenzie in Madrid in 2013. Her prior experience includes working at national law firms in the Corporate and Intellectual Property and Information Technology departments. Patricia provides legal advice on a wide range of issues to international and national clients, including advising on data protection, privacy, consumer protection and telecommunications' issues, drafting and negotiating license and outsourcing agreements and assisting in proceedings before the regulatory authorities. Patricia has experience, among others, in data protection and privacy in: alignment projects, including to the GDPR; data protection audits and provision of training to employees on data protection compliance; day-to-day assistance with special focus on international data protection matters and assistance to the DPO; assistance in the management of personal data breaches involving multiple jurisdictions and notification filings before the Spanish Data Protection Authority; and assistance in the enforcement actions and management of the sanctioning proceedings.

Guillermo Rodrigo

Guillermo Rodrigo is a partner leading the Real Estate Practice Group in Baker McKenzie’s Madrid office since 2016. He is a recognized professor of business law at IE University, and in the master of law program of Instituto Empresa teaching real estate finance projects, and civil law. Mr. Rodrigo's practice is mainly focused on real estate, construction and real estate finance. His areas of practice include advising funds and national and international investors in connection with complex acquisitions of real estate assets, large real estate portfolios and portfolios of secured debt, as well as real estate finance practice and construction. He has also advised on the incorporation of several SOCIMIs (Spanish real estate investment trusts).

Mireia Sabaté

Mireia Sabaté is the managing partner of Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office, a partner in the Employment and Compensation practice in Barcelona and a member of the EMEA Employment Steering Committee of the Firm. She practices mainly in the areas of labor and employment law. Mireia also regularly teaches at universities, having lectured on labor institutions and litigation at ESADE Law School in Barcelona and conducted training on employment termination at ISDE (Higher Education Law and Economic Institute). She teaches courses on social security law at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She has also provided training in equity law at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and in the free transfer of employees at the Barcelona Bar Association. Mireia regularly counsels clients on employment relationships (ordinary or special), employment contracts, individual and collective terminations (including top executives), implementing restructuring plans, and designing and negotiating collective bargaining agreements, noncompetition and other typical agreements, labor law issues in connection with due diligence matters, variable compensation plans, stock option plans and codes of conduct. She also focuses on labor litigation, social security matters, risk prevention, diversity law and human resources. She has participated in the design and implementation of a number of internal human resources policies for different clients.

Jesús Santos

Partner of Baker McKenzie since 2012; Jesus started his Public Prosecutor's career in 1985, year in which he also passed the competitive examinations to the Judicial Career. He worked at the Audiencia Nacional Prosecutor's Office in 1989 as a consequence of the murder of his fellow prosecutor Carmen Tagle and in September 1998, he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the National Court Prosecutor's Office. Jesus acted as Chief Prosecutor from February 6 to May 17, 2006 and during this period of time in the Prosecutor's Office he was Coordinator of International Judicial Assistance, acquiring relevant experience in the handling of Extradition Proceedings and European Arrest Warrants. In 2003 he was appointed Coordinator of Jihadist Terrorism. In his long career as Prosecutor, he has participated in numerous proceedings for socio-economic crimes such as the "CISSA" cases, International Insurance Company, Banco de Santander (credit assignments), several VAT carousel tax frauds, the "Air Madrid" case related to an alleged fraud of the airline or cases of fuel fraud related to the special tax on hydrocarbons and VAT. He has developed a strong international experience in which he stands out as a consultant for the United Nations in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and his appointment as Liaison Judge with the Republic of Italy in 2004. While serving as Liaison Magistrate in Italy, he was heavily involved in organized crime investigations with the Italian National Anti-Mafia Directorate as well as in activities related to fraud against the interests of the European Union through the coordination carried out by OLAF. At Baker McKenzie, the White Collar Crime Department he heads has positioned itself in the Band 1 of the most prestigious international directories being one of the criminal defense departments of reference by participating as a lawyer in the main proceedings regarding economic crimes and corruption (Neymar, Defex, Gurtel - PP, Bankia, Francisco González, Emilio Saracho, Deloitte, OHL, ICBC, Rodolfo Martín Villa and others). Mr. Santos advises companies and individuals on preventive criminal law, pre-litigation situations and criminal proceedings, from the perspective of both the prosecution and the defence. He also advises on issues relating to financial crime and offenses against socio-economic order, fraud, negligent insolvency, corporate crime, tax and social security offenses.

Fernando Torrente

Fernando Torrente has over 35 years of experience and is a leading practitioner of corporate and equity capital markets law in Spain. He has extensive experience in advising corporate clients, investment banks and private equity funds in M&A, including public take-overs and private acquisitions of shares and business, and equity capital markets, including IPOs, primary and secondary equity offerings, as well as reorganizations, joint ventures and general corporate work. Expert also in corporate governance, Fernando formed part of the group of lawyers that advised the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) in preparing the Code of Good Governance of Listed Companies approved in February 2015. Fernando's practice focuses on M&A, public and private, and equity capital markets. His broad ECM practice includes IPOs, primary and secondary offerings and block trades.

Pablo Uslé

Pablo is a technology Senior Associate in Baker McKenzie's IPTech team, based in Madrid. He joined the Firm in 2018 and has over nine years of experience in providing legal advice to national and international clients on a multidisciplinary basis. Pablo's practice covers a broad range of aspects on regulatory, legal policy, product counselling, litigation and technology contracting. Pablo is ranked as an "Associate to watch" by Chambers Europe for TMT: Information Technology - Spain (2023). Pablo's main areas of expertise include tech law, e-commerce, intermediary liability, consumer protection, content moderation, adtech, data protection, cybersecurity, telecom and intellectual property. He practices law with autonomous management capacity and multidisciplinary approach, and strives to tailor advice to the client needs. Pablo regularly acts for clients in the digital space based on solid legal and industry knowledge. For example, Pablo has led complex content moderation litigation, including a precedent settling case in the Spanish Supreme Court. He also provides ongoing assistance on data protection and cybersecurity to clients in various industries, such as TMT, retail, healthcare and finance. His cybersecurity incident response experience includes advising clients in +20 incidents.