Winners of Iberian Lawyer Golden Awards (Premios Oro) announced

The winners of the 2014 Iberian Lawyer Golden Awards (Premios Oro) have been announced at a ceremony in Madrid.

Winners included Samsung general counsel Guillermo Damiá Díaz-Plaja, who picked up the “Team of the Year – Legal” award and BBVA head of legal Luisa Forcada, who won the “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” prize.

The “Corporate Lawyer of the Year” award went to Telefonica´s Miguel Garrido de las Heras, while Javier Ramirez, vice president & associate general counsel at Hewlett-Packard, collected the “Team of the Year – Internationalisation” award.

Pentair´s María Hernández was named “Corporate Compliance Professional of the Year”, while Grupo SEAT´s Sandra Olivera collected the “Team of the Year – Corporate Compliance” award.

The  “Projects & Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year” award went to Globalvia Infrastructuras´ Carlos Lacleta, while Tuenti´s Oscar Casado Oliva won the “New Technologies Lawyer of the Year” prize.

Congratulations to all the winners.

The winners in full:

Team of the Year – Legal

WINNER — Samsung Electronics ; Guillermo Damiá Díaz-Plaja, General Counsel – Head of Legal & Compliance Department / Secretario del Consejo de Administración

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General Electric, Mathieu Savaris, Executive Legal Counsel

Grupo Sanitas, Miguel Escalona, Director de Asesoría Jurídica

Team of the Year – Internationalisation

WINNER: Hewlett-Packard, Javier Ramirez, Vice President & Associate General Counsel

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Abertis, Marta Casas, Director of Legal Services

Ros Roca Environment, Joan Xavier Marimón, Director de Asesoria Jurídica

 

Team of the Year – Corporate Compliance

WINNER: Grupo SEAT, Sandra Olivera, Responsable de Compliance

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Novartis,  María José López, Head Legal & Compliance

 

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

Corporate Lawyer of the Year

WINNER:  Miguel Garrido de las Heras, Director de Asesoría Jurídica Mercantil/Secretaría, Telefonica

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 Ignacio Redondo, Director Ejecutivo de Asesoría Jurídica, CaixaBank

 

Corporate Compliance Professional of the Year 

WINNER: Maria Hernandez, Head of Legal Southern Europe, Pentair

 

Projects & Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year

WINNER: Globalvia Infrastructure, Carlos Lacleta, Head of Legal

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Ahorro Corporación, Ángel Pendás, Director Servicios Jurídicos

IRIDUIM (Grupo ACS), José Luis Donoso, Senior Legal Counsel

 

Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year

WINNER:  Luisa Forcada, Head of Legal, BBVA

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Javier Ramirez, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard

 

New Technologies Lawyer of the Year

WINNER: Oscar Casado, General Counsel, Tuenti Technologies

 

For further information and pictures of the event click here

For information about the award judges, click here

 

Ben Cook

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