Andersen elects José Vicente Morote as managing partner of the firm in Iberia

The General Meeting of Partners of Andersen has unanimously approved the election of José Vicente Morote as managing partner of the firm in Iberia, who thus assumes the highest responsibility of the organization alone after three years in co-direction, while he has also been re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Renewal of the Board of Directors

The appointment was agreed by the General Meeting of Partners, which also approved the renewal of the Board of Directors, which is now composed of José Vicente Morote (Chairman), Ignacio Aparicio (Vice-Chairman), Ivo Portabales, Benjamín Prieto, Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre and Joaquín Ureña, in addition to Patricia Motilla, who is joining this body for the first time, replacing Javier Mata, who will maintain his position as senior partner.

The Partners, in the words of Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre, agreed that Morote, who holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Bologna, “apart from having impeccable legal criteria, represents the pillars of Andersen’s culture and the values of commitment and quality that define the Firm, and has developed a great work based on effort and the principles of ethics and transparency”.

Strategic Plan 2024-2028

José Vicente Morote thanked all Andersen’s partners for their support during this period and for the trust placed in him to lead this new mandate. The Firm’s management will present in the coming weeks the new Strategic Plan 2024-2028 that will set the guidelines and challenges for this new mandate. The previous one of 2021 was exceeded in its objectives long before its planned four-year term.

Morote has highlighted the work and effort of the entire Board of Directors, and also of his Co-managing Partner to date, Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre, during these past three years, in which “the Firm has experienced an unprecedented leap in quality, culminating the process of institutionalization of the Firm. For this leap in quality, we have had the collaboration of an excellent Board of Directors and therefore the composition of the new Board is, to a large extent, continuity. In addition to the Board Members, we have benefited from the contributions of all the members, both those who were already members and those who have recently joined us, in this process of permanent improvement. And all of this within the framework of a great Firm culture and the legacy of the best service firm in history, Arthur Andersen”.

Trajectory

José Vicente Morote is managing partner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Andersen Iberia since January 2021 and head of the Public and Regulatory Law department for Spain and Portugal since 2013. At the international level, he is one of the most influential people in the organization worldwide as a member of Andersen’s Global Board and Leadership Committee, as well as a member of the Eruopean Board, the European Management Committee, and Director of the legal area for Andersen Europe.

Image: Andersen Board of Directors. Standing: Joaquín Ureña, Patricia Motilla, Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre and Benjamín Prieto. Seated: Ignacio Aparicio, José Vicente Morote and Ivo Portabales.