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Villegas Romero & Asociados
Team

Those who will attend you

Lawyers, economists and auditors devoted to the principal branches of the law. One shared standard, and a defined point of contact for every matter.

Francisco J. Villegas Romero
Founding partner

Francisco J. Villegas Romero

Civil · Commercial

Founder of the firm. His practice combines civil and commercial law with a grounding in business and town planning that is uncommon at the bar.

  • European Gold Medal for Merit at Work, awarded by the European Association of Economics and Competitiveness in May 2018
  • Graduate in Law from the University of Seville, specialising in Private Law
  • Master's in Administrative and Financial Business Management, Escuela de Negocios de Madrid
  • Sat the competitive examinations for the State Notaries' Corps between 1985 and 1989
  • University specialist in Co-operatives and Social Economy Enterprises, University of Seville
  • Diploma in Town Planning and Property Development, Instituto de Práctica Empresarial
  • Diploma in Senior Management, Instituto Internacional San Telmo, Málaga campus, 2011
  • Regular attendee of the Civil Law courses of the Menéndez Pelayo International University
  • Member of the Register of Insolvency Administrators of the Seville Bar Association
  • Domestic and international clients in aeronautics, the sherry wineries of Jerez, media, tourism and property development

Members of the firm

  • Member of the firm

    Graduate in Law from the University of Seville, specialising in Private Law.

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    Blanca V. Jiménez BarrerasCivil · FamilyRead more
  • Member of the firm

    Graduate in Law from the University of Seville, specialising in Private Law. He practises in Civil and Commercial Law, holds the Master's degree in Corporate Legal Advice organised by the CEA, and attends regularly the conferences and courses on insolvency given by the Escuela de Negocios de Andalucía and by the Seville Bar Association.

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    Sergio Cruz BritoCommercialRead more
    Portrait pending
  • Member of the firm

    Employment lawyer, head of the firm's Employment Department.

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    José Ignacio Guillén AgüeraEmploymentRead more
    Portrait pending
  • Member of the firm

    She is part of the firm's Administration Department.

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    Isabel Cuerda ScheuerExecutive SecretaryRead more
    Portrait pending
  • Member of the firm
    Victoria KovalevskayaEconomist
    Portrait pending
  • Member of the firm
    Nicolás Villegas RomeroLawyer
    Portrait pending

Associated collaborators

  • Associated collaborator

    Chartered accountant and statutory auditor. Born in the United Kingdom and educated at Ampleforth College, York, he read Accountancy and was admitted to practice by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1974, having trained at Binder Hamlyn in the City of London, a co-founder of BDO. Posted to Madrid in 1974 to establish BDO's first Spanish office, he was Partner-in-Charge there until 1982, when he joined the new management team of Barclays Bank S.A., then newly established in Spain. During that period he was also President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain, until 1986. He has lived in Sotogrande since 1989 and has worked with property companies such as Inmobiliaria Espacio (1989-1993) and the Bland Group of Gibraltar.

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    Philip OgilvieAuditorRead more
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    Graduate in Law from the Faculty of Law of Málaga and a member of the Málaga Bar Association. She practises in real estate, civil, commercial and private international law.

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    Iris OudkerkReal Estate · Civil · Commercial · Private International LawRead more
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    Javier de Cossío Pérez de MendozaLawyer
  • Associated collaborator

    Graduate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, with doctoral studies and a Specialist Course in Telecommunications and Information Technology Law. He began practising in 1991 at the chambers of Fernando Garrido Falla, Professor of Administrative Law and later a Justice of the Constitutional Court, and in 1994 joined López Rodó Abogados, from which he comes. He now practises at Santiago Mediano Abogados in Madrid, one of the firm's associated practices. His work has centred on public law, in particular public procurement — a field in which he has advised public authorities and the successful bidders for public works and services — together with compulsory purchase, administrative penalty law and the rules governing public employees. He has litigated at every level of jurisdiction, as well as before the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in some instances obtaining judgments that have altered the courts' previous doctrine. He is an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the Madrid Bar Association in administrative law, a lecturer in Administrative Law at the Villanueva University Centre, and co-author of the Manual de Derecho Administrativo (Colex, 1997).

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    José Ignacio Juárez ChicoteAdministrative LawRead more
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  • Associated collaborator

    Graduate in Law from the University of Seville. He subsequently spent two years furthering his training with an Advanced Course in Tax Advice and the Master's degree in Legal Practice of the Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos y Empresariales El Monte. He practises in Civil, Commercial and Tax Law.

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    Alfonso de Cossío P. de MendozaCivilRead more
    Portrait pending