Antonio Bañón, the lawyer in the shadows
Antonio Bañon, the lawyer in charge of creating the public law department of the Madrid office of Squire Patton Boggs, explains why he considers his department as a “luxury complement”
by Julia Gil
The lawyer who works in the shadows. This is how Antonio Bañón, director of the public law and energy practice in the Madrid office of Squire Patton Boggs, defines himself. “I am in the shadows in the sense that I assist and support in all transactions where public law is required. I don’t seek the limelight in front of anyone. We all row here and if the firm wins, we all win,” the lawyer in charge of building the public law team from scratch tells Iberian Lawyer.
A graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and a member of the Madrid Bar Association, he advises on general matters relating to public law regulations, as well as in different regulated sectors, such as energy, telecommunications and transport; and his professional career can be divided into three stages.
THE CAREER
The first stage began in 2015 when he joined Ramón y Cajal Abogados. For more than two years he was part of this traditional law firm, to which he arrived with some self-doubt, after having tried to pass the State Lawyers Corps competitive examination for five years: “I questioned myself a lot. Several firms rejected me before I started this stage. To my Ramón y Cajal self, I would say that in the end things work out. Aptitude is a multiplying value, but attitude is exponential,” explains Bañón.
