As a food technology engineer, Maria Ferrer brings to the firm technical consulting experience with respect to the renewables and winemaking sectors. She has broad experience in the Agri-Food industry, collaborates in the M&A transactions we work on and advises on technical questions that impact on the sector’s regulation. The defense and promotion of sustainability is the fundamental basis upon which she carries out her work.

Maria represents our firm in the ‘Cluster INNOVI de Cataluña’, where she focuses specifically on the role of the energy transition in the winemaking industry.

Maria is bilingual in Spanish and Catalan and fluent in English. She graduated as a biologist from the University of Valencia and holds a Masters in food technology from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Maria is a co-founder and director of our firm.

Maria has also worked for 10 years as a permanent professor of Process and Quality in the Food Industry.

Natalia Escánez Comino is a lawyer with more than 16 years’ experience. She has a proven track record in the profession, particularly with respect to litigation in the ordinary jurisdiction before civil and commercial courts, and the administrative jurisdiction before relevant tribunals, as well as having a profound background in arbitration. In our firm Natalia takes charge of our civil litigation and contentious administrative law matters. She has extensive experience advising industrial and commercial clients in both regulated and non-regulated sectors including, for example, digital and financial entities.

She is a key contributor to the APPA Legal Working Group, advising with respect to litigation in the regulation of the electrical sector. Natalia, who speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish and English, graduated as a lawyer from the University of Barcelona. She also holds a Masters in International Legal Practices from the ISDE Law & Business School.

Natalia commenced her legal career in 2002 in the law firm Jausas, where she worked for five years. She has also worked for Riba Vidal, NEC and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. Natalia brings with her an outstanding knowledge of procedural law and norms, something that has provided her with the ability to guarantee her clients an outstanding level of service both with respect to matters in litigation and case management strategy.

Abel Garriga is an of counsel lawyer with our firm. He has more than 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, primarily working in civil and commercial law. His particular expertise is in intellectual property and the regulation of new technology, having a profound knowledge of the legal issues associated with telecommunications and the internet.

Abel has worked as a lawyer since 1995. He is a specialist in author rights and industrial and intellectual property, and advises companies and cultural institutions that use intangible goods for commercial and cultural purposes. His clients include, for example, producers, publishers and advertising agencies, as well as museums, foundations and authors. As a result of the popularization of IT and communications technology, Abel’s practice centers on the articulation of possibilities that allow for the innovative use of digital technologies within the current legal framework. He prepared the first ‘copyleft’ license adapted to the Spanish legal system and participates in Creative Commons. Abel combines his professional activity with teaching and conference participation. He is also a member of the Literary and Artistic Association for the Defense of Author’s Rights.

Abel is fluent in Catalan, Spanish and French and graduated as a lawyer from the University of Barcelona.

As an expert in civil, commercial and international law, Abel advises our clients with respect to patents, trademarks, commercial litigation, copyright, telecommunications and international M&A transactions.

Loida Gil Mena holds a degree in law from the University of Barcelona and is currently studying her Masters in legal practice at the Catalan Open University. In our firm Loida participates in the litigation team on a wide array of matters, whether they be civil litigation, bankruptcies or administrative proceedings. She also frequently assists our M&A team in the preparation of Due Diligence reports.

Loida speaks perfect Spanish, Catalan and English, and has a working knowledge of French. As part of her studies she spent a year in the United States at Columbia University, New York, where she obtained a Certificate in International Business Law.

Prior to commencing with our firm Loida completed a year-long internship at the law firm Codina & Roig Associates.

Lucia has a law degree from the Pompeu Fabra University with a Master’s Degree in Environment from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Law from the IDEC UPF. Speaks fluently English, French and Italian.

She has an extensive experience on the industrial regulatory field (EHS) having carried out several legal audits in all types of facilities and from a very different range of activities, advising also companies in all types of operations.

During the past years, she has worked as a lawyer and legal advisor in civil law litigation and, in the latter year, managing a merger between an Italian and a Spanish insurance brokerage.

In our firm, she collaborates with the litigation team both in civil and administrative litigation matters as well as with the M&A team.

Cristina López Rodríguez is the head of our accounting team, as well as taking charge of our communications with clients. She oversees the contracting of providers, the invoicing processes and other tasks that are vital for the correct functioning of our professional activities.

Cristina speaks Spanish, Catalan and English. She graduated from the Center of Financial Studies as an accounting professional and subsequently undertook further studies at IOC and Acedis, obtaining superior qualifications in administration, finance and IRPF as a result.

Prior to joining our firm, Cristina worked as a bookkeeper for more than 12 years in a wide variety of companies, including a number of law firms.

Esteban Carrillo Varga is our firm’s IT and administrative expert. He is responsible for coordinating our databases and protecting our IT system. Esteban assists our accounting team and is responsible for managing the details of thousands of clients in the litigation that our firm runs with respect to cuts in the electricity sector. He coordinates the expert opinions that we solicit as part of this litigation, as well as managing an external team of professionals who provide technical, IT and web services.

Esteban has undertaken professional studies in metallurgy and as a sound technician. He is currently studying towards a professional business accounting qualification.