María Rosa Rodríguez Gutiérrez
María Rosa is the Head of the Labor Department in Madrid. She specializes in Labor and Social Security law, advising companies, multinational corporations and senior executives, with particular dedication to litigation practice. She is an expert in collective bargaining as well as collective processes, employment management, corporate restructuring, company policies and remuneration systems.
She was highlighted as a relevant advisor by the international legal directory Best Lawyer (labor law and employment). In addition, she teaches at the UAM (Master in Access to Legal Practice), participates as a lecturer in seminars and conferences related to her activity, and contributes regularly to specialized publications.
María Rosa speaks English and Spanish.
Yolanda Jiménez de Anta
Practicing lawyer since 1995 specialized in Health and Pharmaceutical Law. She has extensive experience in legal advice to hospital centers and in national and international consulting of health systems and health management. Yolanda’s work is especially focused on the sale of medicines and health products, in the framework of both public contracts and private contracts, having developed much of her career in advising on this matter.
She is a specialist in advising the generation of innovation, its valorization, the transfer of technology and the generation of new products, services and business models in the biotechnological field. She also has extensive experience in public services management and in advising public entities, non-profit institutions and private companies in the corporate and contractual fields, as well as Administrative and Regulatory Law. She is secretary of several boards of directors and boards of trustees. Prior to joining RocaJunyent, she was the director of the legal services of the Consortium of Health and Social of Catalonia and its Grouped Contracting Service.
She is a professor of the Master’s Degree in Management of Hospitals and Health Centers of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona; of the Master’s Degree of Access to the Legal Profession of the Pompeu Fabra University; and of the Master’s Degree in Health and Pharmaceutical Law of the Center for Higher Studies of the Pharmaceutical Industry. She regularly participates as a speaker in national and international conferences in the field of biotechnology, healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry.
She is a mentor of several biotechnological startups. In addition, she participates in the advisory board of institutions in the biomedical sector.
Yolanda speaks English, French, Spanish and Catalan.
Blanca Usón Vegas
With the highest and most extensive experience in tax advice to companies, Blanca is responsible for recurrent integral taxation of national and multinational companies. She often advises on corporate restructuring and M&A, having participated in numerous real estate transactions.
She has great expertise in the specific tax law of public and parapublic bodies, as well as non-profit entities.
She also specializes in the tax planning of the wealth of natural persons.
Blanca has been recognized as one of the main tax advisors in Spain by independent directories: Chambers and Partners & Legal 500.
Blanca is also a coordinator of the Corporate Tax Committee in Spain of Asociación Española de Asesores Fiscales (AEDAF).
Blanca speaks English, French, Spanish and Catalan.
Blanca Cortés Fernández
Blanca is a consulting partner of the firm since 2019. She has more than 20 years of experience in the practice of intellectual and industrial property law (intellectual property rights, trademarks, patents and designs), advertising, unfair competition, privacy, honor and own image, and contracting of technological services, platforms or digital businesses (software contracts, technology transfer, advertising and online marketing), both in the field of civil litigation and in the provision of legal advice to companies and individuals.
Likewise, Blanca specializes in electronic commerce, consumer and user regulations and the adaptation of all types of companies, products and services to the GDPR and to the rest of the regulations on privacy and data protection.
Among the clients she advises are art galleries, architecture firms, televisions, radios, infrastructure companies, video game associations, authors, artists, trademark holders, mass consumer companies, digital platforms, software developers and startups, at both national and international level.
Blanca has developed her career at SGAE, a copyright management entity, as well as at prestigious national and international law firms, such as DLA PIPER and CMS Albiñana & Suarez de Lezo.
Since 2013, Blanca has been repeatedly selected by Chambers Europe and Best Lawyers publications among the best lawyers in their areas of expertise.
Among her publications are: Comments on the unification judgments of doctrine (civil and commercial). Right to be forgotten. Dykinson Editions; Comments on the rulings for the unification of doctrine (civil and commercial). Prescription of the brand in continued illicit activities. Dykinson Editions; Civil, commercial, public, labor and international contracts, with their tax implications. Contracts on intangible assets (II). The license agreement and patent assignment. Thomson Reuters Aranzadi; Intellectual property for architects. Manual. Magazine Official College of Architects of Madrid; 2019 Litigation Practice for Lawyers. Procedure for the alleged infringement of intellectual property rights resulting from the transformation of a musical work and its subsequent synchronization in an advertisement. Wolters Kluwer; 2019 Commercial Practice for lawyers. Jurisprudential evolution of the right of public communication. Wolters Kluwer.
She is a guest lecturer/professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, ETSAM, ICADE, Charles III University, Instituto de Empresa, Pons Foundation, Cultural Factory, Banco Santander Foundation, University of Fine Arts, and Madrid Design Festival, among others. Among the areas in which she teaches, her knowledge regarding the relationship between intellectual property, architecture and photography stands out.
Blanca speaks English, Spanish and Catalan.
The Firm
Established in 1996, RocaJunyent is one of the most prominent Spanish law firms with offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Gerona, as well as associated offices in Palma de Mallorca, Lérida, Tarragona, Málaga, Sevilla, Bilbao, Badajoz, Burgos and Valladolid.
It offers advice in all areas of Law, especially those related to commercial, banking and financial, procedural and tax law. RocaJunyent is an exclusive member in Spain of the international network TerraLex.
The firm has an outstanding international reputation, which allows it to be recognized by the most prestigious legal publications, such as Chambers, Legal 500, Leader’s League and Best Lawyers International. It is also among the top 10 national law firms in Spain according to the newspaper Expansión and has been chosen as a reference advisor for start-ups by Start-Up Real.
