Full Professor of Commercial Law since 2003, currently at the University of Malaga.
Lawyer of the Madrid Bar Association and Of Counsel of Garrigues. He has been Associate professor at
the Universities of Granada and Jaen and Visiting Professor at the University of the Basque Country
(1995/1996) and at GEZKI (1996/1997). Former Dean of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of
the University of Jaen (1999-2004). He was a member of the Special Committee on Cooperative Societies
of the General Codification Commission of the Ministry of Justice. Author of more than one hundred
and fifty research works published in Germany, Argentina, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and USA. Member of
the Editorial Board of the Revista de Derecho de Sociedades, Revista de Derecho mercantil, Actas de Derecho
Industrial, Revista de Derecho de la Competencia y la Distribución, Revista General de Derecho de los Sectores
Regulados, La Ley Mercantil and Revista de Estudios Jurídicos.
His research interests include corporate law, regulatory theory and market law.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of several listed companies and several unlisted companies.
As a lawyer he has worked on corporate law matters for companies in the electricity sector (Iberdrola, Enel, Endesa, EDP); banking (Banco de Santander, Unicaja Banco, Banco Privado Portugués), technology (Airtificial, Carbures, Humanox, Muving) and sports (Cádiz Club de Futbol).
Married with two children. Catholic.