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Miguel Iribarren is Professor of Commercial Law and has been a consultant in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez since January 2024.

He is a renowned expert in company law and corporate governance, a subject on which he has extensive experience in providing advice and opinions. The duties and responsibilities of directors, the status of shareholders, shareholders' agreements and family protocols, corporate conflicts and challenges to corporate resolutions, corporate reorganisations and M&A transactions are some of his most common areas of practice.

He also specialises in financial market law and insolvency and restructuring law.

He is the author of numerous well-known publications, including three monographs on corporate and securities law.

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Education

  • Law Degree with Extraordinary Prize, University of Oviedo, 1999.
  • PhD in Law with Extraordinary Prize, University of Oviedo, 2004.
Education

Professional associations

  • Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Salamanca

Teaching activity

  • Researcher, University of Oviedo, 2000-2004
  • Lecturer of Commercial Law, University of Zaragoza, 2004-2005
  • Lecturer of Commercial Law, University of Oviedo, 2005-2006
  • Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oviedo: 2009-2023
  • Full Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oviedo: Since 2023

Recent publications

  • Miguel Iribarren. In Estudios jurídicos en homenaje al profesor José Miguel Embid Irujo, t. II. Rosalía Alfonso Sánchez (Editor), María del Mar Andreu Martí (Editor), Carmen Boldó Roda (Editor), Paula del Val Talens (Editor), María de Lourdes Ferrando Villalba (Editor), Miguel Gimeno Ribes (Editor), Pablo Girgado Perandones (Editor), Luis Hernando Cebriá (Editor), Vanessa Martí Moya (Editor), Benjamín Saldaña Villoldo (Editor). Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2026

  • Miguel Iribarren. In Seguros de responsabilidad civil de administradores y directivos (D&O). Juan Ignacio Peinado Gracia (Edición a cargo de). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2026

  • ¿Ejercicio de los derechos de socio por subrogación?

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    Miguel Iribarren. Almacén de Derecho, 15/06/2026

  • Miguel Iribarren. La Ley Mercantil, n.º especial 10.º aniversario. Una década de derecho mercantil: diez años de La Ley Mercantil, 2025. También en La Ley Mercantil, n.º 131, 2026

  • Derogación singular de los estatutos e interés legítimo de los administradores

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    Miguel Iribarren. Almacén de Derecho, 18/12/2025