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, he currently focuses his practice on criminal law, criminal and civil procedural law and international litigation.

Esteban has advised on some of the major “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 workers, and offences against the environment), and principally those having international implications (extraditions, letters rogatory, proceedings in other countries, obtaining evidence abroad, and enforcement of foreign judgments). Esteban has also participated in some of the most significant cases of private litigation, arbitration and insolvency proceedings in Spain in recent years.