Santiago Hierro
Of CounselSantiago Hierro is a professor of commercial law, a lawyer and an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Madrid.
He has developed his professional career mainly within the corporate and financial market law area, where he has advised both foreign and local credit institutions, public authorities and private companies, among others, listed companies.
EXPERIENCE
- Legal advisor for a number of Board of Directors and for foreign credit institutions in the private Banking segment
- Issued a number of reports for public authorities and private companies, among others, listed companies
- Project Manager and Main Investigator of competitive investigation projects founded by public and private entities
- Holder of a number of university academic administration and management positions
- Spanish
- English
- French
- German
- Alcalá, Maastricht and Innsbruck Universities, Degree in Law, 1993
- Master Degree in EC Law, 1994
- PhD Law, cum laude, 1997
PhD Economics, cum laude, 2007
Awards
- Extraordinary Degree in Law Award
- Recognition for four six-year research programmes by the National Assessing Committee for Investigation Activity [Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI)]
- VI Award by the Board of Trustees of the UAH (University of Alcalá) to the transfer of Know-How University-Society. Humanities, and Social and Legal Sciences Category
Publications
Santiago is the author of six monographs and coordinator of four collective works, as well as author of sixty legal chapters and articles, published by various top publishers and specialist legal journals, both local and international.
Prior Experience
Memberships And Affiliations
- Member of the Madrid Bar Association
- Official arbitrator at the Arbitration Court for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Madrid