Profile
Patricia Vidal joined Uría Menéndez in 1996 and she is a partner of the firm since 2015.
Her practice mainly refers to EU law and EU and Spanish Competition Law, with special focus in competition litigation before the Spanish and the EU courts. She has wide experience in merger control (including multijurisdictional filings) and national and international cartel cases and leniency programs, as well as international agreements (purchasing/selling strategic alliances and state aid issues. More prominently in the last years she has specialised in antitrust damage claim litigation in Spain.
Patricia is a regular lecturer on EU and Competition Law in several universities and institutions and has written several articles and books on Competition Law.
She is the Chairman of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition. Patricia is considered a leading competition lawyer by the main legal international directories (Chambers, Who’s who, GCR, etc.) and has won several awards (including Benchmark Litigation 2019 – Europe, category “Best lawyer” in Spain, and was nominated in 2021 for the award of “Best Lawyer” in Spain by the newspaper Expansión; women@, etc).
Education
- Law Degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1994
- LL.M. in EU Law (European Business Law), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge-Chelmsford, 1995
Professional associations
- Madrid Bar Association
- Spanish Association for the Study of European Law (AEDEUR)
- Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition (AEDC). Patricia was president of the AEDC between April 2021 and April 2024.
- European Competition Lawyers Forum (ECLF), participating in several working groups and papers produced for the European Commission
- American Bar Association
Teaching activity
Patricia was responsible, as academic director, for the design and development of the Master’s Degree in International Legal Practice at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) for over a decade, where she also lectures on competition law and is also co-director of the Master’s Degree of the Competition and the Financial Sector at University Carlos III (Madrid).
Patricia has also been a regular lecturer on EU Law on master’s and postgraduate degree courses organised by the Universidad Autónoma and Complutense of Madrid, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), CEU University, and Instituto de Empresa and Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles.
She also participates as a speaker on competition law matters in conferences and seminars.
