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Javier Sánchez-Vera

Javier Sánchez-Vera

Europe 2026

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Practice Areas

His wide experience includes all sorts of criminal proceedings, including jury trials, extradition cases and pardon petitions, in all procedural phases. His practice has covered all sorts of offences in the Criminal Code, defense of individuals in macro white collar crime cases.

Career

Javier Sánchez-Vera Gómez-Trelles is Professor of Criminal Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a member of the Madrid Bar Association, with a silver medal due to his 25 years of practice. Before he joined Oliva-Ayala Abogados he worked with Professors Stampa and Cobo del Rosal, also exclusively dedicated to the field of criminal law. Javier Sánchez-Vera’s specialized practice covers Business and Economic Criminal Law, as well as countless cases in all other branches of Criminal Law. He also has a depth knowledge of criminalistics.

Personal

Javier Sánchez-Vera holds a PhD in Law from the University of Bonn. He teaches criminal law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has been a Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Criminología and in the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. In addition he has given numerous conferences and taught courses in Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, among other countries. He has also been Academic Visitor at Oxford University.

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Dispute Resolution: Corporate Crime - Spain

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Respected partner Javier Sánchez-Vera offers advice on a range of criminal proceedings related to corporate and financial cases.

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Spain

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