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I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Corporate and Financial Law at  University College London (UCL Laws). My teaching is focused on postgraduate programmes (MLF and LLM), with courses such as Cross-Border M&A (LAWS0326) and Private Equity (LAWS0389). I am also affiliated with the Centre for Law and Finance. And  I  am part of the Oxford Digital Assets Project, led by Prof Louise Gullifer and Prof Jennifer Payne.

Until September 2025, I was a Departmental Lecturer in Law & Finance at the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford for three consecutive academic years. I was part of the teaching team for postgraduate courses on Corporate Finance Law, Principles of Financial Regulation, and Law & Economics of Corporate Transactions (BCL/MJur and MLF). 

I pursued my doctoral research at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof Horst Eidenmüller.  My thesis is titled "Resolving the (financial) distress of critical firms: a legal theory of bailouts".

My research focuses on government intervention in the economy. I am particularly interested in ad hoc interventions in situations of financial distress of large firms (in particular bailouts), including their effects in terms of transfers of wealth among different stakeholders (including taxpayers and society at large).  I am also interested in M&A and alternative investments, as well as corporate law & governance.

Prior to embarking in my doctoral research  at Oxford Law, I was a London-based investment and corporate finance advisor. Before then, I was an investment professional with a London-based pan-European real estate private equity firm. I started my professional career as a corporate/M&A lawyer with Uría Menéndez in Madrid, where I practised from 2002 until 2009. As a senior associate at UM, I was involved in some of the landmark transactions in the Spanish private equity market and in the first round of mergers of the Cajas de Ahorros. I am a dual-qualified lawyer in England & Wales (solicitor) and Spain (abogado). 

I graduated in Law (Licenciatura en Derecho) and Economics & Management (Licenciatura en ADE) from ICADE E-3. After my stint as a lawyer at UM, I pursued  an MBA (Finance & Accounting) from The Wharton School. And while working in London as a real estate private equity investment advisor I read for an MSc in Taxation from the University of Oxford.