EU Law and International Trade

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Patricia Vidal Martínez
Patricia Vidal
Partner since 2015. Madrid office
/ Phone +34915860161
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Patricia Vidal joined Uría Menéndez in 1996 and has been a partner of the firm since 2015.

Her practice focuses mainly on EU law and Spanish and EU competition law, with a special emphasis on competition litigation before the Spanish and EU courts. She has extensive experience in merger control (including multijurisdictional filings) and national and international cartel cases (including leniency programs). She also has vast experience in international agreements (purchasing/selling strategic alliances), state aid issues and abuses of dominance. In recent years she has become a leader in antitrust damages litigation in Spain, defending clients in cases involving mass litigation.

Patricia is a regular lecturer on EU and competition law and for ten years has been the academic director of an LLM at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE). She has also written several articles and books on competition law and is the only Spanish member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Global Competition Review.

She is the Elected Chair of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition and has coordinated many papers, studies and conferences organised by the association. Patricia is considered a leading competition lawyer by the main international legal directories (Chambers, Who’s Who, GCR, Women in Antitrust 2016: Private Practitioners, etc.) and has won several awards (including “Best lawyer” in Spain in Benchmark Litigation 2019 – Europe, and Women@ in 2019).

Education

  • Law Degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1994 
  • LL.M. in EU Law (European Business Law), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge-Chelmsford, 1995

Membership of Professional Associations

  • Madrid Bar Association
  • Spanish Association for the Study of European Law (AEDEUR)
  • Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition (AEDC). Member of the board since 2014
  • European Competition Lawyers Forum (ECLF), participating in several working groups and papers produced for the European Commission
  • American Bar Association