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Gemma Atares — Partner, Figueras Legal, Figueras Legal SLP
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Spain · Member since 2025
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Gemma Atares
Partner, Figueras Legal · Figueras Legal SLP · Barcelona, Spain

Gemma Atares is a Barcelona-based lawyer and member of the Barcelona Bar Association, specializing in insolvency law, corporate law, and NewTech & data protection. She advises private companies, family businesses, high-net-worth individuals, and luxury brands on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, compliance, dispute resolution, and restructuring. Gemma is a key partner at Figueras Legal SLP, contributing across multiple practice areas including insolvency, intellectual property, tax, labor, and arbitration.

Spain
Jurisdiction
Transactional Practice Group · Intellectual Property Group
Primary practice
2025
WLA member since
English · Spanish
Languages
About
Gemma Atares
Partner, Figueras Legal at Figueras Legal SLP

Gemma Atares holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2000) and completed a Postgraduate Course in Legal Practice at the Barcelona Bar Association (2001–2003). She is a member of the Barcelona Bar Association since 2002 and pursued a Postgraduate Course in Restructuring and Insolvency Judicial Proceedings at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2007.

Gemma specializes in legal advice in insolvency law, corporate law, and emerging technologies, including data protection. She provides strategic counsel to private companies, founders, family businesses, charities, high-net-worth individuals, luxury and fashion brands, and professional service providers. Her expertise spans mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, compliance and risk, dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation, tax advisory, labor and employment law, immigration, and injury and terrorism law.

At Figueras Legal SLP, Gemma works across multiple practice groups including the Transactional Practice Group, Intellectual Property Group, Insolvency and Restructuring Group, Global Dispute Group, Tax Group, Labor and Employment Law Group, Immigration Law Group, and Global Arbitration and Mediation Group.

Her multidisciplinary experience enables her to guide clients through complex corporate, regulatory, and technological challenges while protecting their interests and supporting growth and restructuring initiatives.

Practice areas
Transactional Practi
Transactional Practice Group
Transactional Practice Group advisory and representation for Spain-based and international clients.
Intellectual Propert
Intellectual Property Group
Intellectual Property Group advisory and representation for Spain-based and international clients.
Insolvency and Restr
Insolvency and Restructuring Group
Insolvency and Restructuring Group advisory and representation for Spain-based and international clients.
Labor and Employment
Labor and Employment Law Group
Labor and Employment Law Group advisory and representation for Spain-based and international clients.
Solutions
Mergers & Acquisitions Dispute Resolution Arbitration Mediation
Brief WLA to co-practice via
Figueras Legal SLP

Figueras Legal SLP jointly holds cross-border matters involving Spain law alongside WLA partner firms in any other jurisdiction.

WLA accreditation
Status
WLA Partner Firm — Spain
Exclusive partner in Spain — annual review current. Standing confirmed.
Since
2025 — 1 years
Annual review cycle. No issues in any review to date.
Contact
Phone 34 934193845
Location Barcelona, Spain
The team at Figueras Legal SLP
The practitioners behind
WLA Spain co-practice.

Every WLA co-practice matter involving Spain law is handled by a named member of the team — jointly holding the matter alongside WLA partner firms in other jurisdictions.

WLA Co-Practice Protocol
Brief WLA on your Spain matter.

Figueras Legal SLP co-practices alongside WLA partner firms in any other jurisdiction — jointly holding the matter under one Institutional framework.