About

VidaCaixa is a leading insurance company in Spain, and a subsidiary of CaixaBank, one of the largest banks operating in the Spanish market. Pablo Pernía Martin joined CaixaBank in 2012 and in 2015 he assumed his current role as head of the legal and compliance department of its insurance subsidiary, while he also holds the position of the secretary to the steering committee of the company. ‘It is just a few weeks for me in my new position. We are currently analysing the activities that can be externalised and the way the teams within the legal department are organised in order to understand how we can work as efficiently as possible. Everyday motivation to the teams and bringing positivity is one of my personal contributions to the department’ he says. During his time within CaixaBank he handled major transactions and he impressed with his nimble and rigorous approach to legal matters. ‘The greatest challenge I have faced in my career to date was the role I played in helping the legal department of CaixaBank to successfully complete the mergers with three banks in the recent years. It was a great challenge because those banks merged with CaixaBank had hundreds of subsidiaries’ says Pernía Martin. ‘While we certainly did have a tough time, my team and I managed to face it and received compliments from the different departments of the organisation involved in the processes’. Before moving in-house Pernía Martin had worked with Garrigues and Deloitte and taught competition law at Esade University.