Juan Alberto Díaz López

As a specialist in White Collar Crime and Criminal Law, Juan Alberto Díaz has taken part and advised on several of Spain’s most complex White Collar Crime, Financial Disputes and relevant proceedings in recent years. He has also been selected by the prestigious international legal directory Best Lawyers (Criminal Law, Spain) and has been inducted as an Illustrious Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. Mr. Díaz combines his legal practice alongside his lecturing and legal research activities as a Professor of Criminal Law at the leading University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). He also teaches graduate and upper-level courses in a number of higher learning institutions.

Holder of a Ph.D. in Law, Advance Studies Diploma in Criminal Law (DEA), Specialist in Victim-Offender Mediation, and Graduate of Laws and Political Science, Juan Alberto Díaz is bilingual in Spanish and French and fluent in English and German.

Director of the firm J. A. DÍAZ. Litigación Penal, Juan Alberto Díaz has authored numerous legal publications. He has been recognized as the first place winner of the III Edition Specialized Monographs Prix held by the Bar Association of Madrid (2011). Among his comprehensive works are his books on the Aggravating Circumstance of Article 22.4 of the Spanish Criminal Code (Civitas, 2013) and The Crime of Identity Theft (Dykinson, 2010). Mr. Díaz has authored research and scientific articles on various issues of Law. Selected works include: the Ne Bis In Idem (Diario La Ley, 2008), Victim-Offender Mediation And Criminal Liability of Corporations (Indret, 2011), Civil Liability Ex Delicto of Financial Institutions (Revista de Derecho Bancario y Bursátil, 2014/Journal of Banking and Securities Law, 2014) and issues surrounding the granting of Pardon (La Ley Penal, 2015), loan agreements and criminal liability (La Ley Mercantil, 2015) or the money laundering crime (Diario La Ley, 2015).