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Jaime Alonso

Partner since 2013 ––– Madrid
Member no. 49036 of the Madrid Bar Association
Languages
  • English

  • French

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Profile

Jaime Alonso joined Uría Menéndez as a partner in 2013. He previously worked for Estudio Jurídico Rodriguez Mourullo, one of Spain’s most renowned criminal law firms.

Based in the Madrid office, he specialises in white collar crime and, in particular, crimes related to listed companies and financial markets, tax fraud, urban planning and environmental crimes, and criminal compliance (compliance programmes, anti-bribery compliance, internal investigations, etc.).

He has represented clients as a criminal defence lawyer in many of the most important white collar crime cases in Spain in the last fifteen years, including some of the most relevant in the following areas:

  • Tax evasion crimes
  • Offences related to financial and accounting matters involving listed companies
  • Fraud
  • Insider trading
  • Urban planning and environmental crimes
  • Offences relating to public servants and corruption
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Education

  • Law Degree, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1989
Education

Professional associations

  • Madrid Bar Association

Teaching activity

Jaime has been a lecturer on criminal law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 1999.

He has taken part as a lecturer or speaker at numerous events, especially on matters related to tax fraud, money laundering, corporate criminal liability and the behavioural analysis of law.

Recent publications

  • Jaime Alonso. In The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, t. II. Global Investigations around the World, 8th ed. Winston Y Chan (Editor), Eleanor Davison (Editor), Celeste Koeleveld (Editor), Christopher J Morvillo (Editor), Judith Seddon (Editor), Luke Tolaini (Editor), F Joseph Warin (Editor). London: Law Business Research, 2024

  • Jaime Alonso. In The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, t. II. Global Investigations around the World, 7th ed. Winston Y Chan (Editor), Eleanor Davison (Editor), Celeste Koeleveld (Editor), Christopher J Morvillo (Editor), Judith Seddon (Editor), Luke Tolaini (Editor), F Joseph Warin (Editor). London: Law Business Research, 2023

  • Jaime Alonso. In Manual de Derecho para Ingenieros. El Derecho de principios del Siglo XXI: nuevos retos y tensiones. Jaime de Rábago Marín (Director), Santiago Martínez Garrido (Director), Manuel Aragón Reyes (Coordinador), Alberto Alonso Ureba (Coordinador). Las Rozas (Madrid): La Ley, 2022

  • Jaime Alonso, Sara Sanz Castillo. In The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, t. II. Global Investigations around the World, 6th ed. Ama A Adams (Editor), Michael Bowes QC (Editor), Eleanor Davison (Editor), Celeste Koeleveld (Editor), Christopher J Morvillo (Editor), Judith Seddon (Editor), Luke Tolaini (Editor). London: Law Business Research, 2022

  • Spain. The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations

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    Jaime Alonso, Sara Sanz Castillo. In The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, t. II. Global Investigations around the World, 5th ed. Ama A Adams (Editor), Michael Bowes QC (Editor), Eleanor Davison (Editor), Tara McGrath (Editor), Christopher J Morvillo (Editor), Judith Seddon (Editor), Luke Tolaini (Editor). London: Law Business Research, 2021