Uría Menéndez

Competition and EU Law.

Patricia Vidal joined Uría Menéndez in 1996 and she is a partner of the firm since 2015.

For the last 23 years 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 a wide 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 and more prominently in the last years, in antitrust damage claim litigation in Spain.

Patricia is a regular lecturer on EU and Competition Law and has been for 10 years academic director of an LLM at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE). She has written several articles and books on Competition Law.

She is the Elected Chairman of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition.

English; French.

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.

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