Our team

Experience

Fátima Rodríguez joined Lupicinio in 2017 as head of the criminal law department, coming from Estudio Jurídico Zabala. In this firm she participated in cases of great legal and media importance. After this training period, Fátima Rodríguez joined the team of Lupicinio International Law Firm. In recent years, she has participated in the defence of relevant cases such as the Black Cards, Canal de Isabel II, Púnica, Vitaldent and Tandem.

Fátima Rodríguez specialises in economic crimes, as she has extensive experience in representing individuals and legal entities in complex criminal proceedings, especially in the business field. She is also an expert in crimes against persons. In this field she combines her legal expertise with her experience in clinical psychology to offer a particular approach to each case.

She is also part of the firm’s group of lawyers specialising in corporate compliance, as well as in the design, development and implementation of crime prevention models or programmes (criminal risk assessment and mapping, criminal risk management systems, organisational models, codes of ethics and professional conduct, internal policies, anti-corruption manuals and policies, ethical and whistleblowing channels, internal investigations and disciplinary sanction systems).

In parallel, Fátima Rodríguez is:

• PhD in Criminal Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, with the qualification of Cum Laude.
• Professor of Economic Criminal Law and General Criminal Law at the Universidad Villanueva de Madrid.
• Honorary collaborator of the Department of Procedural Law and Criminal Law at the Complutense University of Madrid.
• Head of the Compliance section of the association Women in a Legal World.
• Member of ICA, Instituto de Consejeros y Administradores.
• Member of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association.
• Speaker at seminars and conferences of the firm.
• Responsible for Diplomatic Relations of the Women in a Legal World Association.

Fatima is a member of the “¿Hay Derecho?” Foundation, which is dedicated to carrying out specific actions in defence of the Rule of Law, transparency and the fight against corruption, whether through opinions, reports, administrative or judicial actions, actions in favour of transparency or congresses, seminars and also through acts of recognition to reinforce the actions of the (often unknown) defenders of the Rule of Law.

In addition, Leaders League has recommended Fatima in 2023 and 2024 in the area of Compliance. She has also been recognised by Best Lawyers in the areas of Criminal Law and Corporate Governance and Compliance since 2023.

Merits

Published articles:

• Travelling in times of covid and states of emergency
• The so-called willful blindness in criminal law
• The need to regulate internal investigations in companies
• How to prevent a cyber-attack during the coronavirus crisis?
• Legal observations: diplomatic immunity and the death of Harry Dunn
• Lawyers who win their trials in the media
• How to dress for a trial, when first impressions are everything
• Is any assault by a man on a woman in a relationship or ex-partner violence?
• Ambient fear: more safety for women
• Reckless homicide?
• The social sentence of ‘La Manada
• The Supreme Court’s novel approach to regulatory compliance programmes to prevent criminal risks
• The Supreme Court in the face of the black cards
• Blesa, Barberá… And now what: Inquisiprensa
• New criminal code
• “The use of data mining in compliance programmes to prevent corruption” Published in: El Consultor de los Ayuntamientos, Nº 2, Section Transparency 4.0, February 2022
• “Emerging technologies applied to compliance”, special issue of the magazine El Consultor de los Ayuntamientos “La gobernanza inteligente”, Special I, April 2022.
• “The legal gap in the field of cryptocurrencies”, in Diario LA LEY, Nº 10252, Cyberlaw Section, March 2023

Seminars:

World Compliance Association, Madrid                                  30 November 2021. Speaker. 3rd Congress on Compliance in the Public Sector

Institute of Compliance Officers, Madrid                                20 November 2020. Speaker. International Compliance Week

Instituto de Compliance Officers, Madrid                               20 April 2020
Speaker. Webinar: “Compliance and Reputation”.