Uría Menéndez hires Daniel Sarmiento, former legal secretary of the Court of Justice of the European Union

He worked alongside Advocates-General Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer and Pedro Cruz Villalón.

January 26, 2015

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Uría Menéndez begins 2015 with the incorporation of Daniel Sarmiento, former legal secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Union, as a consultant in the Madrid office on competition, administrative and European Union law.

Daniel Sarmiento has worked in Spain’s General State Administration (2004-2006) and at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2007-2015), working alongside Advocate-General Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer. Recently, he worked closely with Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón, who has of late issued far-reaching decisions approving the European Central Bank’s purchase of public debt.

Daniel Sarmiento holds a Doctor of Laws and has been a tenured lecturer of Administrative and European Union Law at the Universidad Complutense since 2010. He is author of numerous academic works including "El control de proporcionalidad de la actividad administrativa" (Tirant lo Blanch, 2004), "Poder Judicial e Integración Europea" (Thomson-Civitas, 2004) and "El Soft Law Administrativo" (Thomson-Civitas, 2004). He collaborates with a number of prestigious international publications including "Common Market Law Review", "European Law Review" and "Revista Española de Derecho Europeo".