A lawyer from the Madrid Bar Association, he trained at the Complutense University of Madrid where he obtained his degree in Law -2017-, and at the Alfonso X el Sabio University, where he obtained the University Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession -2019-. That same year, he also acquired the certification of University Expert in Compliance from the same university.

In addition, he has complemented his training with additional courses, such as Financial Accounting -2021-, taught by the ICAM Study Center, and Legal Writing in English -2022-, also at the same center. More recently, in 2024, he took the “Elements of AI” program at the University of Helsinki.

During his training period, he completed regulated internships for both the Degree in Law and the Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at the Muñoz Perea Abogados and F&J Martín Abogados law firms. In addition, he has collaborated professionally with the Tax Defense & Counsel Abogados firm.

Daniel graduated in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After completing his studies in 2014, he worked for three years in the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution department in Uría Menéndez.

He then specialized in White-Collar Crime and Compliance, taking a Master’s degree in Criminal Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2017) and several postgraduate degrees in compliance and criminal compliance from Universidad Carlos III (2020) and Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (2018) and a specialization in criminal law from the Madrid Bar Association (2020).

He is currently pursing his PhD in criminal law (securities manipulation) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has authored two books: Internal investigations, cooperation, and nemo teneur. National and international practical considerations (Investigaciones internas cooperación y nemo tenetur. Consideraciones prácticas nacionales e internacionales, [Aranzadi, 2020]) and Behavioral Compliance: reinforcing Compliance through Behavioral Ethics (Behavioral Compliance: reforzando el Compliance a través de la Ética Conductual, [Aranzadi, 2021]).

Andrés holds a degree in Law from the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and a PhD in Law (Cum Laude with honors) from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Colegio Universitario Cardenal Cisneros), Universidad Europea de Madrid, Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio and Universidad Nebrija. He has also taught postgraduate courses at Escuela de Organización Industrial. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies and Vice-Chancellor of Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and Secretary General of Universidad Nebrija. He has served as Prosecutor assigned to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid for eight years. He has given several lectures at national and international level.

Currently, he is a Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at ESERP (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I), which he combines with the practice of law.

Bernardo Feijoo Sánchez is of counsel at Corporate Defense. Mr. Feijoo is chair professor of Criminal Law at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and brings with him extensive experience in the area of complex financial crimes from his time as a practicing lawyer since 1989.

Feijoo is the winner of both the thirteenth (1998) and twenty-third (2008) editions of the prestigious “Premio de Artículos Jurídicos de LA LEY” and a finalist in the fourteenth (1998) and fifteenth (2001) editions. He is the author of more than a hundred publications on criminal law. His publications include the books Treatise on Corporate Criminal Liability (Tratado de responsabilidad penal de las personal jurídicas [Civitas, 2016]), The corporate crime in the Spanish Penal Code (El delito corporativo en el Código penal español ([Civitas, 2015]), Socio-economic order and crime (Orden socioeconómico y delito [BdF, 2016]) and Public corruption in international economic activities as a crime against the market (La corrupción pública en actividades económicas internacionales del art. 286 ter del Código Penal como delito contra el mercado [Aranzadi, 2021]).

Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez is the founding partner of Corporate Defense and a practicing attorney who has developed his career in both Spain and the United States. Gómez-Jara has worked on a number of cases in both jurisdictions, representing the interests of individuals as well as financial institutions, both public and private. He has extensive experience in complex financial crimes, particularly in matters connected to the Spanish banking crisis. Gómez-Jara is considered to be a leading expert in corporate criminal liability, European criminal law, extradition and Compliance.

He has been included in several of the most important national and international legal directories (Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500) as an expert in criminal law in Spain. He has been recognized with the Best 40 Unter Forty Award (Iberian Lawyer, Spain and Portugal) and the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (Columbia University, NY).

He holds a European Ph.D. in Law and a LL.M. from Columbia University. He is a Professor of criminal law and a speaker at various universities and centers. He is the author of more than a hundred publications, including his books: Treatise on Corporate Criminal Liability (Tratado de responsabilidad penal de las personal jurídicas [Civitas, 2016]), Corporate actor and corporate crime (Actor corporativo y delito corporativo [Aranzadi, 2020]), The Supreme Court before the corporate criminal liability (El Tribunal Supremo ante la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas [Aranzadi, 2019, 2ª edición]), European criminal due process (Garantismo penal europeo [Iustel, 2017]) and European Federal Criminal Law (Intersentia, 2014).

He is a Member of the Madrid Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar. He serves at the Legal Experts Advisory Panel (Fair Trials International). He is a member of the Technical Committee of the ISO 19600 –Compliance Management Systems. Guidelines–, ISO 37301 – Compliance Management Systems. Requirements–, ISO 37.001 –Antibribery Management Systems– and UNE-ISO 19601 –Criminal Compliance Management Systems. Requirements–.