Uría Menéndez’s Bilbao office recruits Irantzu Irastorza as a partner

Uría Menéndez’s Bilbao office has recruited Irantzu Irastorza as a partner.

Irastorza formerly headed the legal department at Kutxabank.

Prior to that she was an associate at Uría Menéndez from 1999 to 2009.

Salvador Sánchez-Terán, managing partner of Uría Menéndez, said: “It is a great privilege for our firm that a professional of the stature of Irantzu, who has developed a brilliant professional career and who knows the Basque Country business sector well, returns to Uría Menéndez to head the Bilbao office’s commercial law team.”