RocaJunyent improves its results in the Legal 500 with 31 professionals and 8 highlighted areas

• 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”.