José María Barrios

José María is a partner head of the firm´s Regulatory practice in the Madrid office. José María was previously a partner in the Regulatory and Compliance department at Deloitte Legal, which he joined in 2018 and where he led the TMT and energy sectors. Prior to that he worked at Clifford Chance, Grupo ACS and Spanish law firm Pérez-Llorca.

His practice area is public law and regulated sectors. Throughout more than 20 years of professional career, José María has developed an ample expertise in public procurement, expropriation, town planning and environmental matters, as well as in a wide variety of regulated sectors such as public infrastructures, transportation, aeronautic, hotel, leisure parks, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, media, sports, entertainment, and especially in the energy sector, where he has advised key players -either public administrations, financing entities, funds or industrial clients- on the regulatory aspects of M&A transactions, financings and re-financings, bond emissions, as well as in the drafting of reports, legal opinions and regulations related to the power, gas and oil sectors.

He is also well known for being an experienced litigator in judicial proceedings of a contentious-administrative nature, related to matters concerning regulated sectors and at the different court levels (including relevant experience at the European Court of Human Rights).