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Mario de Echevarria`s Curriculum Vitae

International Business lawyer and legal translator

With over fifteen years experience as a business lawyer in top-notch international law firms, advising clients in a wide variety of sectors, in particular corporate-commercial, real estate, energy and environment; having been based successively in Brussels, London, Madrid, Moscow and Barcelona. I have also been head counsel for a pharmaceutical laboratory in Barcelona. Since January 2006 Director of ASETRADIUS, specialised legal and financial translation firm.

Languages

• Spanish: native language


• English: Bilingual. Fifteen years providing legal advice in English.


• TOEFL


• GMAT


• French: Bilingual. Diplôme de Langue, Alliance Française.
• Post-graduate "Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen", from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), with honours ("Distinction").


• German: Proficient. Goethe Institut "MittelStuffe Prüfung".


• Italian: Proficient. "Magister Linguae", Istituto Lorenzo de Medici (Florence).


• Russian: Intermediate. Three years learning Russian and living in Moscow.

Language pairs

• English<>Spanish, both ways


• French<>Spanish, both ways


• Italian>Spanish

Areas of Specialisation

• Legal: All types of contracts and agreements, patents, deeds and other notarial and court documents, company by-laws and reports; incorporation documents, minutes, mission statements.




• Accounting and financial: Annual accounts, balance sheets and financial statements, annual reports, banking and financial contracts, tax returns, information brochures and flyers.




• Real Estate: Lease, sale and purchase, construction and other agreements; Extracts and certificates from Property Registries; due diligence reports; building specifications.

Professional Path

December 2005 to date

• Company: Asetradius, Asesoría Internacional y Traducciones Jurídicas




• Position: Managing Director




• Achievements: In 2006 I decided to create my own enterprise, aimed at advising small and medium size businesses in the start-up of their foreign ventures and international expansion, especially in Eastern Europe, and providing high end technical translation and interpretation services.

• Company: Gutiérrez de la Roza Abogados. Law Firm in Madrid.




• Position: Senior Attorney. Head of marketing and Business




• Development Achievements: Legal: Corporate, commercial and real estate legal advice to the firm’s foreign clients, among which a major international investment bank; formalisation of rights to land in an industrial complex in Asturias for a US Chemicals company; sale of two wind farms in a structured tender sale, including due diligence and preparation of the sales prospectus; MBO of a family business, leader in the Iberian illumination market, with the financing of an international investment bank; advising on cutting-edge technology projects (obtaining fuel from plastic waste; biotechnology drug for Alzheimer’s disease, wind farms, telecommunications); various office and commercial leases, granting of a surface right on industrial land for the development of a combined cycle plant.




• Marketing: Updating the firm’s corporate image, developing marketing tools (Website; brochure; press releases and articles; deals lists). The Firm has opened over 500 files and grown 70% in revenues during the last year.

• Company: Lácer, S.A. Pharmaceutical Laboratory in Barcelona




• Position: Head of Legal Department.




• Achievements: Devising legal strategy against the Ministerial Order capping the price of medicines. Lobbying with the Spanish Ministry of Health and with EU institutions. Managing outsourcing of legal services. Drafting and monitoring budget for legal and insurance accounts, obtaining savings of over € 200,000. Review of internal procedures for drafting, negotiating and approving contracts and managing insured events. Closing over 10 transactions, including licence, confidentiality, co-operation and joint development agreements. Negotiating with business angels for seed capital projects on new molecules. Dealing with the Risk Prevention and Medical department. Coordinating a reduction of payroll with the CFO.

• Company: Baker & McKenzie, Madrid. Law Firm




• Position: Senior lawyer, Corporate/Commercial and Real Estate Departments




• Achievements: Coordinating legal teams in seven jurisdictions for the acquisition of a global textile business, for over 90 M euros; leases and “sale & leaseback” of various office buildings and shopping centres; sale of two office buildings; public tenders for procurement of 14 helicopters to the Spanish Ministry of Defence; Development of an Energy Law practice in the office, winning two power producers and an oil company as clients; coordinating the structured sale of a combined cycle plant. Advising telecommunications and call-centre companies on regulatory issues.

• Company: Baker & McKenzie, Moscow. Law Firm




• Position: European Senior Lawyer. Real Estate Department.




• Achievements: Advising multinational clients on Russian and International Law; member of the Real Estate Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow; member of the Moscow Business Club; mortgage financing of the construction of the Anglo-American School Campus in Moscow; advising Austrian and Swiss Financial Entities on the management and disposal of their real estate portfolio in Moscow; purchase and refurbishment of a four-star hotel by a Korean developer; re-zoning of Moscow residential land as commercial for a Spanish candy manufacturer; Setting up Anglo-Russian JV to develop the Moscow Logistics Park.

• Company: Clifford Chance, Moscow. Law Firm




• Position: Head of Real Estate Department




• Achievements: Creating a real estate law practice in the office; developing office buildings; lease of office premises for various companies operating in the financial and Stock markets. Acting for a Turkish developer, developing five shopping centres throughout the C.I.S.

• Company: Clifford Chance, Madrid. Law Firm




• Position: Lawyer, Real Estate Department

• Company: Brosa y Asociados. Law Firm in Barcelona




• Position: Junior lawyer, Corporate/Commercial and International Tax Departments.

Studies

• 2004. Diploma in Pharmaceutical Law, Barcelona Bar Association




• 1995. Diploma in Environmental Law




• 1994. Accounting for Lawyers, Madrid bar Association




• 1993. Practicum in Real Estate and Planning Law, Legal Practice School




• 1990. Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels (in French, with honours)




• 1987. Law Degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid




• 1986. Three courses on Political Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid