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Almudena Carracedo Troncoso
Associate Lawyer at the Vigo Bar Association (ICAVigo) Graduated in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Expert in Consumer Law and specialist in financial and banking law. Appointed member of the Galician Transport Arbitration Board, to represent consumers. Focused on mediation and extrajudicial conflict resolution.
Igor Echevarría Osta
Solicitor. He has a Master´s Degree in Legal Counselling for Companies from the University of Deusto. He specialised in Business Law and Procedure, in insurance companies proceedings. He has extensive experience in recurring and corporate governance advice to companies in corporate and contractual matters. He is the co-author of the book “Introducción a la Nueva Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil” (Introduction to the New Law of Civil Prosecution), printed by the Publishing House J.M. Bosch Editor.
Antonio Lorenzo Amador
Trial Attorney. He specialised in Economic Criminal Law, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Audiovisual Law (Graduate from the Universidad San Pablo CEU de Madrid), he has a Master´s degree in Company Management in the Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía and studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Chambéry (France). He is a member of the International European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) and of the International Bar Association (IBA), which is part of the Committee of Media Law. He is a specialist in company counselling, national and international, in the branches of Procedural, Civil-Commercial and Economic Criminal Law. He has ample experience in central Criminal Courts and in European arrest and extradition proceedings and criminal prosecution in the international scope as well as in criminal defense of industrial and intellectual property. He has worked in France on Mergers and Acquisition and has worked in the United Kingdom in the offices of North American lawyers Steptoe Johnson & Rakisons. He has advised international companies in telecommunications and audiovisual sectors, with a great experience in protection and criminal and civil defence of brands and patents. He is a Professor of Information Technology Law at the Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos de El Monte (IEJE) in Seville and in the Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía (CEA). He has published articles in the media such as in the newspaper ‘Expansión’ and in the magazines ‘Cinco días’, ‘Andalucía Económica’, ‘La Gaceta de los Negocios’, etc.
Carlos Montesa Kaijser
Solicitor. He specialised in Fiscal Law. He has a post-graduate diploma in European Communities awarded by the Free University of Brussels in cooperation with the University of Seville and the Sevillian Chamber of Commerce. He is an expert in company counselling in tax and taxation. He is the director of Fiscal Department of the Sevillan Office for Abbantia Solicitors and Tax Consultants from its creation. He is the secretary of the Board of Administration of various companies. He is a Professor of Masters Degree in Fiscal Law at the University of Seville in cooperation with the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Institue of Fiscal Studies) and specialized courses given by the Confederación de Empresarios (Confederacy of Business Managers) of Andalusia. He is a Member of the Spanish Assocation of Tax Counselors (AEDAF) and was the first President of the Sevillian Association of Bankruptcy Studies (ASEC). He is a Bankruptcy Administrator. He is a Member of the European Food Law Association (EFLA) and the Andalusian Association of Agri-Food Law.
José Pazos Alvariño
Bruno Ángel Pérez Conde
Lawyer specialized in Administrative Law. Law Degree from the University of Vigo; Master’s Degree in Business Legal Advice from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid); Practicing lawyer (with collegiate number, at ICA Vigo, 2474) with extensive professional experience (having developed his professional career in International and National Law Firms, such as Garrigues, PwC, Deloitte and NLP Abogados). Main areas of specialization and professional practice: Public Sector Contracting; Subsidies and public aid; Administrative procedures (general, sanctioning, patrimonial responsibility, etc.) and judicial contentious-administrative procedures (abbreviated and ordinary, in their different instances, including before Institutions and jurisdictional Bodies of the European Union -General Court and Court of Justice of the EU); Regulatory regime; Organization and operation of the Public Sector; Waste; Environment; Costs; Patrimony of the Public Administrations; Regime of concessions, authorizations and administrative licenses in regulated sectors; Forced expropriation; Town planning; Telecommunications, among other areas of professional practice.
Guillermo Sáenz Martínez-Geijo
Juan M. Vidal Boso
Javier Zabala Echendía
Solicitor. He is a specialist in Business Law. Member, Secretary, and Advisor to the Board of Administration of many and varied business organizations. He has a special experience in insolvency and bankruptcy procedures. For twenty years he was a legal advisor to Banco Atlántico (Banco Sabadell-Atlántico) for the northern area of the Iberian Peninsula. He has also defended the interests of other banking institutions such as Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Barclays Bank, Caja Laboral Popular and many others. He has participated in the creation of important business groups within the area of healthfood, nutrition and recycling, in the South American continent (Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela; etc.) as well as the European continent (Spain, France, Germany; etc.). Since 1969, he is a Professor of the Law Faculty of the University of Deusto. He is a Permanent collaborator of the Master in Corporate Legal Counsel issued by the aforementioned Law University of Deusto. He is a speaker and moderator in multiple conferences of a commercial and business nature.
María Zabala Landa
Solicitor. Teacher in the Master of Expert in Digital Law (University of Deusto).She has passed the first three exams which are part of a competitive exam for professional Commercial Broker (1997-1998). She has a Master´s Degree in Information Technology and Communications Law by the University of Comillas in Madrid (2000-2001). She is a specialist in New Information and Communication Technology Law and Communications and Business Law. She has extensive experience in advising national and international clients in all types of M&A operations, as well as in commercial contracting and particularly complex corporate matters, in some cases performing the duties of the secretariat of its corporate bodies.
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Luis Alonso Rasgado
Solicitor. He has a Master´s degree in Fiscal Law issued by the University of Seville and the Institute of Fiscal Studies (2003-2004). He is a member of the Asociación Española de Asesores Fiscales (Spanish Association of Fiscal Advisors) and the Group of Abogados Tributaristas del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Sevilla. (Fiscal Solicitors of the Illustrious Academy of Lawyers in Seville) and a member of the Tax Department of ABBANTIA since 2004. He specialises in complete counselling in Fiscal Law and Accounting and, above all, in Tax Procedures.
Charlotte Andersson
Collaborator “of counsel” of Abbantia. Master of Laws at University of Lund, Suecia (2005). Degree in Law (lic. derecho) at University of Seville, Spain (2006). Lawyer and member of the Sevillian Bar association since 2008. Specialized in Civil Law and International Private Law. Active member of the Commission of International Relations within the Sevillian Bar Association and the Spanish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce, where she has given lectures about legal issues for Swedes in Spain and Spaniards in Sweden. She has also been an invited teacher at the University of Seville, giving a lecture about the Swedish law of succession within the optional subject Comparative Private Law.
Thorsten Blaukat
Lawyer. Law Degree (Frei Universität Berlin). He has many years of experience in different law firms in Berlin, with particular expertise in procedural, commercial, corporate and labour law. Since 2018 he is partner of the law firm BM Partner - Blaukat & Martinez - Rechtsanwälte, Abogados, advising small and medium-sized German and Spanish companies that require advice in German law and representing their interests before courts and tribunals.
David Buxó
Collaborator “Of Counsel” of Abbantia. Lawyer. Law Degree by the University of Barcelona (UB). Specialization courses in Immigration Law at the Barcelona Bar Association years 2003, 2.004, 2.005 and 2.009. Experience of more than 20 years in the area of Immigration and Nationality Law. Since 2000 exercising as a freelance. Teaching activity in Immigration Law in Planificación Jurídica-Centro de documentación.
Mª José Carretero Rodríguez
Labour Lawyer. «Of Counsel» in Abbantia. Law Graduate at the University of Seville in the year 1999, she completed her training with a course on “Expert in Labour and Social Security Law” at the University of Seville (1999-2000). Ongoing training in Aranzadi Social Forums.
Course in Integrated Business Management in 2005 organized by Chamber of Commerce and Seville City Council. Insolvency Administrator since the beginning of 2012.
She started practising law as an intern in 1999, is a member of the Seville Bar Association since May 2000, and since then has been Senior member of the Carretero Law Firm, assisting both individual and corporate clients in the fields of food, aeronautics, fashion, building and services.
Mónica Cauzo Bottala
Solicitor. Specializing in personal data protection. University expert/Master´s Degree in comprehensive Labour Security, with aditional preventive specialities in Industrial Higiene, Ergonomics and Psicosociology in order to promove Safety at work. Audit about the Prevention of Occupational Risk by the University of Seville. From 1997-2002 in charge of the management and the organization or courses for Continuos Education (FORCEM) 2002-2009. Teacher at the Andalusia Business Confederation (CEA) imparting occupational courses. Teacher at the University of Pablo de Olavide, Seville, imparting courses in Senior Master of Advocacy.
Rocío Cera López
Solicitor. Law graduate of the Pablo de Olavide University (2009). Awarded best qualifications Pablo de Olavide University (2008). Studies for Public Prosecutor and Judicial Careers (2009-2013).Specialist in Family Law and Inheritance Law by the Pablo de Olavide University (2013-2014) and on International Family Law by University of Seville. Wide experiencie in Litigation.
Begoña de la Marta
Of Counsel of Abbantia. Lawyer. Law Degree with a specialization in European Law (San Pablo CEU University, Madrid). Master on International Legal Cooperation at the Free University of Brussels. Qualified as Mediator from the Chamber of Commerce of Potsdam.
She has a solid working experience at international law firms in Brussels and in Berlin. She is specialiazed in commercial law, including international commercial contracts, and real state law. Since 2000 she is established in Germany and has been focused on Spanish-German legal transactions, representing both the legal interests of German individuals and companies in Spain as well as the legal interests of Spanish companies in Germany.
Head of the German Desk of Abbantia Law Firm.
Lecturer of Spanish law at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
María Espejo Rodríguez
She is a Graduate in Business Studies from the University of Seville. She took a Postgraduate course in Administrative Business Management issued by the Confederación de Empresarios Andaluces (Confederation for Andalusian Companies). She is an Expert Fiscal Adviser for the CEFOEC Escuela Superior de Práctica Jurídica (Legal Practice College).
José Ramón Gómez Tinoco
Collaborator "Of Counsel" of Abbantia. Auditor and Chartered Accountant with 35 years of professional experience. Registered in the Official Register of Statutory Auditors since its foundation in 1989. Appointed Auditor-Commissioner-Trustee-Bankruptcy Administrator in numerous proceedings since 1994. Responsible for the economic-financial area of insolvency.
Gema González Guerra
Christer Heljestrand
External collaborator of Abbantia Law Firm. Language services provider, mainly of the Nordic languages, since 2003. Translation, localization, proofreading, copywriting, interpretation, possession, content creation, language courses. Spain Manager for ReadyBetWin (Sweden) since 2017. Multicultural and Public Relations Advisor. Country Director for GoLoyal AB (Sweden). Language teacher. Swedish, mother tongue; English, level C2; Spanish, level C1; German, B2 level. Degree in English philology, with a specialization in Hispanic philology, from the University of Umeå and the University of Seville (1997-2002).
Gracia Jardón Baeza
Solicitor, currently Of Counsel for Abbantia. Law graduate from the University of Deusto. Temporary Prosecutor, assigned to the Cadiz Prosecutor´s Office in the years 2001 and 2002 and previously a Temporary Judge in the Judicial District of Barakaldo throughout the judicial year 2002 and 2003 and of the Judicial District of Vitoria during the judicial year 2003/ 2004. Legal expert in Criminal Law, Dispute Resolution and Mediation. Expert in Juvenile Justice, Family and Gender-based Violence.
Amaia Lomas Lozano
Attorney. Collaborator “of counsel” of Abbantia. Graduate in Law from the University of Seville. Master’s Degree in Legal Counselling of Companies from the Cajasol Studies Institute. Master’s Degree in Tax Counselling through the Economic and Legal Training Centre (officially approved by the General Council of Spanish Attorneys). Master’s Degree in Procedural Practice in the Centre of Advanced and Special Legal Studies of Andalusia. Advanced School of Legal Practice. (Officially approved by the Seville Bar Association).
Javier Martín-Albo Pedraz
Lawyer “Of counsel” at Abbantia Law Firm. Specialist in Tax Law. Specialist in Operations of Acquisition and Sales of dingular assets (real estate, companies, energy sector) to National and International Inverstors. Double Master in Corporate Legal Advice and Tax Taxation awarded by the Financial Studies Center of Madrid. Member of the Bar. Association of Málaga.
Since the beginning of his professional career, at firms such as PwC and Deloitte, he has provided tax advice to natural and legal persons, residents and non-residents, on tax and tax procedures, both through administrative and litigation procedures. He has focused his advice and the practice of law on companies in the construction sector and large estates.
In recent years he has specialised in providing legal and tax advice to individuals and legal entities on acquisitions and sales of singular assets to national and international investors. In addition, in the exercise of his profession he has forged strong links with different investment funds, family offices and private investors for the channelling of their national and international investments.
Belén Martínez Molina
Lawyer. Of Counsel of Abbantia. Degree in Law (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and University of Utrecht (Netherlands). Degree in Political Science and Administration (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). Long experience as a lawyer in international law firms in Germany (Hannover and Berlin) as well as in the legal department of a corporate group in Madrid. Since 2018 she is partner of the law firm BM Partner - Blaukat & Martinez - Rechtsanwälte, Abogados. She has a solid experience in Spanish-German legal transactions. Her areas of specialisation are commercial law, corporate law and international private law.
Patricia Morillo Álvarez
Solicitor. Member of the Seville Bar Association. Graduate in Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (2020) from the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville. Extraordinary prize for the best undergraduate academic record (2021).
She has a Master’s Degree in Legal Practice (2022) and a Master’s Degree in Contract Law and Civil Liability (2021) from the Pablo de Olavide University.
Specialised in family law at the Complutense University of Madrid (2023), with honourable mention.
Carmen Rodríguez Bolaño
Of Counsel lawyer in Abbantia. Degree in Labour Studies at the University of Seville (Spain) in 2009 and Diploma in Social Work at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (Spain) in 2007.
With more than 10 years experience, she has focused her career on Human Resources, working both in national and international firms, always in central departments, allowing her to obtain a global vision of the firm from a HHRR point of view, in all its aspects.
Tania Sancho Álvarez
Collaborator “Of Counsel” of Abbantia Law Firm. Lawyer. Specialized in Employment and Occupational Risk Prevention / Health and Safety Law. Judicial and administrative proceedings in employment matters. Legal reports and audits/risk assessments. Investigation/ advice in harassment matters. Court Representation, mediation, arbitration and conciliation services, Employment and Social Security Investigations and other administrative authorities.
Employment lawyer with more than 15 years of experience, as the principal part of which as a member of the Employment Department of the firm J&A Garrigues (Madrid and Barcelona). Law, Universidad Carlos III Madrid 2003.
Oliver Toro Orozco
Lawyer, member of the Madrid Bar Association. Of Counsel lawyer in Abbantia. Specialist lecturer in the Autonomous University of Madrid in the year 2004. Specializing in Labour Law with vast experience in litigation matters and in corporate consulting, acquired through teaching and practice in Labour Courts, assisting corporate clients as well as trade unions and workers.
Wide-ranging professional experience as specialist lawyer for Labour Law assisting many corporate clients in collective proceedings (Temporary Employment Regulation Files, collective redundancies, trade union elections, negotiating tables), individual disputes (legal assistance before Courts) and proceedings for Social Security Inspections.
Knowledge of various aspects of law proceedings acquired in the School of the Madrid Bar Association, and experience procedures regarding Liquidation of Assets, family and contract claims.
Antonio Urbano Fernández
Of Counsel lawyer in Abbantia. AENOR Personal Certificate as Data Protection Officer (DPO) - 0015/2018. Member of the Seville Bar Association. Economist and DPO in Sevilla Activa MP SAU, front company of the Province of Seville. Professional Expert in Data Protection Management and Cybersecurity in the company 2022. Member of the Spanish Association of DPOs (AEDPD).
Expert in the field of Personal Data Protection, Information Security and Cybersecurity. Vast experience as Data Protection Officer in both public and private sectors, dealing with both the data subject and the managers or persons in charge of data handling.
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Antonio Castilla Moro
Ana Tibisay Paz Márquez
Senior Secretarial, Accounting and Finance Certificate, obtained from the Madrid Professional Training Centre (Centro Superior de Formación Profesional Auxiliares). Diploma in Commercial Management English, offered by Professional Training of the region of Madrid and the European Social Fund of the CF in Insurance and Finance. Twenty years’ experience as Senior Business Administration Manager, and Special Mention in Mercadotecnia in Venezuela.
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