Jordi Ruiz de Villa

Managing Partner at Fieldfisher Spain. I am an experienced attorney with more than thirty years of practice in complex litigation. During the last decade, I have focused on securities litigation, being responsible of some of the most successful judgments against banks in the Spanish Supreme Court and High Courts. In this area, I have specialized in representing institutional investors, large companies and SMEs against financial institutions due to bad practices in the commercialization of all types of products, especially derivatives, stocks (Banco Popular) and structured bonds and deposits.I started my practice in the area of franchising, distribution, unfair competition and antitrust enforcement, fields where I am still very active, advising some of the main international fast-food and casual food franchise networks in Spain.

Law Degree, University of Barcelona (1988); Master degree, Financial & Tax, University of Barcelona (1995). Fieldfisher: Partner (2007) and President (2020).

Arbitrator of WIPO; founder and legal advisor of the Spanish Franchise Association (AEF) since 1993, and Chairman of its Legal Experts Committee since 2004.

"Observatory of complex financial products", "Observatory on the case law of financial derivatives at renewable energy companies"; "Observatorio de Jurisprudencia del Banco Popular"; "Distribución Comercial", Co-author along with McDonald's and Comess Group.