Our firm has an White-Collar Crime Law practice group focused on providing legal representation in highly complex and high-stakes cases involving personal and corporate liability. Due to the technical and procedural demands of this field, only a handful of firms in Spain are capable of effectively handling proceedings of the utmost complexity and public exposure.
The practice is supported by a top-tier team with decades of accumulated experience in criminal proceedings related to the corporate and business sectors, and with a particularly solid perspective derived from extensive judicial experience, as well as legal representation in various proceedings, both as private prosecutors and as defense counsel.
This practice area is characterized by technical rigor and a strategic approach, combined with constant procedural monitoring of the various stages of the proceedings and the discretion required by the nature of the cases. The team has handled and continues to handle legal representation in proceedings before courts throughout the country, at all levels, with proven experience in managing highly complex economic criminal litigation.
This practice area also addresses issues that go beyond criminal procedural law, such as preventive and compliance guidance, or support in corporate decisions that, by their nature, may require anticipating risk scenarios.
A hallmark of the firm is the effective coordination between the Commercial Law teams—covering both corporate and procedural aspects—and the Criminal Law team, which allows us to address each matter with a comprehensive understanding of the client’s corporate and operational reality. The practice group provides legal representation in proceedings related to, among other matters, corporate crimes, breach of fiduciary duty, embezzlement, complex fraud and scams, business corruption, criminal insolvency, tax crimes, and money laundering, as well as any cases in which a company, its directors, executives, or partners may be implicated.
The practice is led by Luis Martínez de Salinas, a member of the judiciary since 1983, whose career is notable for having served as a presiding judge in various Investigating Courts, eventually joining the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court for more than a decade (1997–2007). He served as the presiding judge in the Botín Case (2005) and has participated as a European Union expert on judicial cooperation and the fight against money laundering.
