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Santiago Hierro

Santiago Hierro

Of Counsel
About

Santiago Hierro is a professor of commercial law, a lawyer and an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Madrid.

He has developed his professional career mainly within the corporate and financial market law area, where he has advised both foreign and local credit institutions, public authorities and private companies, among others, listed companies.

Areas of FocusCorporateFinance

EXPERIENCE

  • Legal advisor for a number of Board of Directors and for foreign credit institutions in the private Banking segment
  • Issued a number of reports for public authorities and private companies, among others, listed companies
  • Project Manager and Main Investigator of competitive investigation projects founded by public and private entities
  • Holder of a number of university academic administration and management positions
Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
  • French
  • German
Education
  • Alcalá, Maastricht and Innsbruck Universities, Degree in Law, 1993
  • Master Degree in EC Law, 1994
  • PhD Law, cum laude, 1997


    PhD Economics, cum laude, 2007

Awards

  • Extraordinary Degree in Law Award
  • Recognition for four six-year research programmes by the National Assessing Committee for Investigation Activity [Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI)]
  • VI Award by the Board of Trustees of the UAH (University of Alcalá) to the transfer of Know-How University-Society. Humanities, and Social and Legal Sciences Category

Publications

Santiago is the author of six monographs and coordinator of four collective works, as well as author of sixty legal chapters and articles, published by various top publishers and specialist legal journals, both local and international.

Prior Experience

  • 2014 – to date, Of Counsel at DLA Piper
  • 2014 – to date, Member of the Comisión de Política Económica y Mercantil de la Asociación de Empresarios del Henares (AEDHE) [Economic and Commercial Policy Board for the Henares Entrepreneurial Association], part of the CEIM-CEOE
  • 2008 – to date, Professor of Commercial Law, Law School at the University of Alcalá
  • 2001 – 2008, Head Lecturer of Commercial Law. Law School at the University of Alcalá (Madrid)
  • 1994 – 2001,  Assistant Lecturer of Commercial Law. Law School at the University of Alcalá (Madrid)
  • 1994 – 2005,  Visiting researcher and lecturer at: the Harvard University Law School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA); Institut füreuropäisches und internationales Wirtschaftsrecht at the Munich University (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg, Germany); and Institut für Handels- und Unternehmenrecht of the University Law School in Innsbruck (Austria)

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member of the Madrid Bar Association
  • Official arbitrator at the Arbitration Court for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Madrid

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