Carolina Rodríguez

After five years as an associate at Estudio Legal (1987-1992), where he acquired experience in corporate, banking, capital markets and competition, he co-founded Araoz & Rueda in 1994. Since then, he has developed his practice advising in general corporate and commercial matters and, especially, in Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets, where he has extensive experience. Furthermore, he regularly advises in litigation and restructuring/insolvency matters.

Twenty years of professional experience have been my foundation, first as a lawyer specializing in new technologies , an expert in technology law , advertising , industrial property , intellectual property , unfair competition , and consumer law ; and then, serving as a judicial magistrate in the Provincial Court of Madrid. I have now returned to my legal profession, working in my area of ​​expertise with a wealth of experience. My guiding principles as a lawyer are specialized knowledge, exp...

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Of Counsel Lawyer at the Firm. Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. Lawyer of the Spanish Parliament. Full Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Corresponding Member of the Peruvian Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He has held numerous positions in the Spanish administration and in the public and private cultural sector, as well as in international organizations: Deputy Director General of Artistic Heritage, Director General of Cooperation with ...

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Licenciada en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) desde 1994 y, además, María se cualificó como Solicitor of England & Wales en 1998. Con más de 15 años de experiencia, es especialista en asesoramiento laboral integral a empresas tanto desde un punto de vista del derecho nacional como en asuntos laborales y de Seguridad Social con componente internacional. También tiene amplia experiencia en el ámbito de las Transaccio...

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Javier es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Navarra (1992) y LLM por University College London – UCL- (1996), miembro del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (1993) y “Solicitor of the Law Society of England and Wales (1997) y profesor de M&A (Fusiones y Adquisiciones) en el Instituto de Empresa. Javier tiene gran experiencia en la especialidad de M&A, habiendo realizado numerosas operaciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, coordinando equipos en divers...

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