• Intellectual Property: Trade Marks and EU and Competition departments honoured in the 2023 edition of the guide
• Raúl Salas and Blanca Usón, partners in the Tax Department, and Marlen Estévez, partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation Department, highlighted in the directory as Leading Individuals

Madrid, 18 April 2023. RocaJunyent improves its results in the 2023 edition of the English Legal 500 EMEA directory. In total, 31 professionals from 8 different practice areas, 8 incorporated in this edition, have been highlighted in the guide.

Among the departments highlighted are Intellectual Property: Trade Marks (Tier 3), Employment (Tier 3), Tax (Tier 3), Commercial, Corporate and M&A (Tier 4), Banking and Finance (Tier 5), Dispute Resolution (Tier 5), EU and Competition (Tier 5) and Real Estate and Construction (Tier 5). In this edition, Intellectual Property: Trade Marks and EU and Competition are recognised for the first time in the English directory.

The professionals recommended by the directory include Rosa Rodríguez, Albert Rodríguez, Raúl Salas, Blanca Usón, Joan de Figarolas, Enric Moret, Elena Ferrer-Sama, Jordi Guarch, Luis Mas, Joan Martí, Joan Roca, Xavier Altirriba, Alex Llevat, Francesc A. Baygual, Xavier Foz, José Luis Pita da Veiga, Jordi Bermúdez, Joaquim Matinero, Marlen Estévez, Gonzalo Serrano, Pascual Sala, Pablo Calvo-Sotelo, María Gracia Llàcer, Ana Just, Gonzalo García-Cuenca, Xavier Serramalera, Silvia Lopez, Roger Pla, Javier Vázquez, Blanca Cortés and Elisenda Perelló.

In this edition, Raúl Salas, partner in the Tax area, is once again a Leading Individual for being “a highly experienced partner with a great focus on the client. He is able to steer the project in the right way with flexibility, dedication and integrity”. Likewise, Blanca Usón, head of the Tax Department, repeats as Leading Individual thanks to “her professionalism and, above all, the close communication and good client service, together with the agility when managing the different matters that we deal with together”.

Regarding the 2022 exercise, Marlen Estévez, partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation Department, has been highlighted as a Leading Individual thanks to being “reliable, solid, extremely empathetic, aware of the client’s needs and makes herself available 24/7 if needed”.

Some references from our areas

• Intellectual Property: Trade Marks: “Their approach is always global. They understand the problems of our company. They have brought new practices such as the ESG approach”.
• Tax: “RocaJunyent has a robust multidisciplinary team characterised by its rigour and expertise. It gives the client a lot of peace of mind to know that they are in the hands of a highly professional team that is always attentive to any possible legal and social changes that may occur”.
• Commercial, Corporate and M&A: “the mixture of technical quality in the service, strategic vision, availability, empathy and support in the process beyond the strictly legal is the main asset of this team”.
• Banking and Finance: “What stands out is their creativity when negotiating, the ability to pay attention to details and to identify, analyse and interpret our requirements, their time management skills, and the availability and close relationships of the team in this practice area”.
• Dispute Resolution: “The strengths and skills of the team are the speed, follow-up, professionalism of the process from the moment the firm is hired, throughout the process until the end”.
• Real Estate and Construction: “RocaJunyent stands for their involvement in business cases; proactivity and leadership as well as their innovation in ESG”.
• Employment: “The knowledge of the company on the one hand, and secondly their negotiating skills in complex situations”.

Madrid, 20 March 2023. RocaJunyent continues for another year to scale up positions in the European edition of the Chambers and Partners international directory. In total, 12 of its practice areas and 10 of its professionals are highlighted in the guide.

In this edition, the Tax and Public Law departments, both of Barcelona, are included in the directory, while Dispute Resolution does the same in Spain’s ranking. 

In addition, this year the English directory also highlights the areas of Banking & Finance (Spain), Employment (in its rankings in both Spain and Barcelona), Intellectual Property (Spain), Real Estate (Spain), Corporate/Commercial (Barcelona), Dispute Resolution (Barcelona), Restructuring/Insolvency (Barcelona) and Tax (Spain), to which Tax and Public Law in Barcelona and Dispute Resolution in Spain are added.            

Regarding the Tax department, the firm’s clients interviewed by the English directory praise that lawyers and economists make “a realistic assessment of the matter to help identify the appropriate path to follow”. Concerning Public Law, the directory underlines that “RocaJunyent has a well-coordinated and effective team that has a lot of knowledge”. Regarding the last of the departments that enter the directory this year, Dispute Resolution, and their professionals, the interviewees emphasise that “they fight until the end when there are possibilities of success and also offer good commercial agreement options and alternative resolutions”.

Escalation of partner positions

As for the professionals, Blanca Cortés (Intellectual Property: Copyrights) and Albert Rodríguez (Employment: Barcelona) advance their position and both rank in Band 2 of their respective rankings.  

In addition, eight professionals hold a prominent position in this year’s Chambers Europe Guide. They are Miquel Roca, Joan Roca, Blanca Usón, Javier Vázquez, José Luis Pita da Veiga, Juan Antonio Borràs, Marlen Estévez and Raúl Salas.       

Barcelona, 2 March 2023. RocaJunyent has appointed Oriol Valentí as a new partner in the Litigation Department in Barcelona to drive the growth of the national and international arbitration and mediation services, as well as to reinforce the litigation team led by Gonzalo Serrano.

Oriol Valentí is an expert in domestic and international arbitration. He participates in arbitration proceedings before the ICC, ICSID, CAM, CIMA, TAB and ad hoc proceedings, and is an expert in cases involving multiple jurisdictions and procedural rules. He also has extensive experience in advising on complex international litigation, commercial and contractual disputes, disputes arising from sales and acquisitions, corporate law and directors’ liability.

The new partner has practised as a dispute resolution lawyer in Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paulo and London at WilmerHale and Cuatrecasas. Valentí is admitted to practice law in Spain and in the State of New York and is a member of various professional associations such as the Spanish Arbitration Club (of which he was coordinator of the -40 Section in the 2021-2022 biennium) and the International Bar Association.

He holds a Degree in Law and Business Administration from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), a Diploma in Legal Studies from the Oxford University and an LLM from the Harvard Law School. The new partner has written numerous articles on alternative dispute resolution and is also very active in the academic field. Among others, he is a lecturer in Alternative Dispute Resolution at UPF and International Arbitration at ISDE.

With the arrival of Oriol Valentí, RocaJunyent continues to strengthen its commitment to arbitration and mediation as alternative dispute resolution methods in the context of the high level of litigation we are experiencing in Spain. Arbitration and mediation provide effective solutions, avoid deadlock situations and favour the maintenance of relations between the parties. RocaJunyent’s Litigation and Arbitration team reaches 25 professionals, 6 of whom are partners.