Patricia Vidal joined Uría Menéndez in 1996 and she is a partner of the firm since 2015.
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 wide experience in merger control (including multijurisdictional filings) and national and international cartel cases and leniency programs, as well as international agreements (purchasing/selling strategic alliances and state aid issues. More prominently in the last years she has specialised in antitrust damage claim litigation in Spain.
Patricia is a regular lecturer on EU and Competition Law in several universities and institutions and has written several articles and books on Competition Law.
She is the Chairman of the Spanish Association for the Defence of Competition. Patricia is considered a leading competition lawyer by the main legal international directories (Chambers, Who’s who, GCR, etc.) and has won several awards (including Benchmark Litigation 2019 – Europe, category “Best lawyer” in Spain, and was nominated in 2021 for the award of “Best Lawyer” in Spain by the newspaper Expansión; women@, etc).
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