About

Inés Núñez de la Parte’s outstanding legal and management skills led her to be included in the top 10 female legal executives in a list published by Mujeres y Cia in 2014. The prestigious Top 100 Female Leaders list (Las Top 100 Mujeres Líderes) which includes names such as Queen Letizia Ortiz and the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, identifies women that have had a substantial impact on the Spanish business world and wider economy. Núñez de la Parte gained recognition for creation of the in-house legal department of Ingeteam, an engineering company focused on energy, industry, marine and rail traction, after joining as the first in-house lawyer in 2005. She gave particular importance to diversity, employing an equal number of men and women, and people with international experience. Now, less than a decade later, the legal department ranks first in the internal feedback survey, being considered the most valuable department of the company. Núñez de la Parte was promoted to general counsel in 2006 and in 2013 she became secretary of the compliance committee and member of the executive committee, ‘the only female among many men, mainly engineers’, Núñez de la Parte comments. She has played a prominent role in major transactions, including Ingeteam’s $20m investment in a production Plant in Milwaukee. ‘It took a lot of study, since I’m not specialised in the US jurisdiction, but I led the case and negotiated the contracts, with the support of external counsel’ she says. ‘My biggest achievement professionally is that I have defended the company in situations with lots of money involved in lawsuits and arbitration; sometimes reaching an outside court agreement and in other cases bringing the litigation to success. After a decade working with them they take my opinion very seriously, now I’m more like a business partner’.