Esteban Astarloa is a partner in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez. He joined the firm in 1989 and became a partner in 2002.

After several years of practice in civil litigation, arbitration and advising on insolvency proceedings, including some of the most prominent cases in Spain, he currently focuses his practice on economic criminal law.

Esteban has advised on some of the most important white collar crime cases in Spain (corporate offences, offences against the market and consumers, intellectual property and copyright offences, misappropriation, fraud, criminal insolvency, offences against the Public Treasury and the Social Security, offences against employees, and offences against the environment), and especially those with international implications (extraditions, letters rogatory, proceedings in other countries, obtaining evidence abroad, and enforcement of foreign judgments).