Fátima Rodriguez

Experience

Fátima Rodríguez joined Lupicinio in 2015 as head of the criminal law department, coming from a law firm specialising in Criminal Law. 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, Tandem and Villarejo.

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 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:

• Doctorate in Criminal Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with the qualification of “Sobresaliente Cum Laude”.
• Professor at the Universidad Villanueva de Madrid.
• Professor of the Master’s Degree for Access to the Legal Profession at the Garrigues Study Centre.
• Head of the Compliance section of the association Women in a Legal World.
• Member of ICA, the Institute of Directors and Administrators.
• Member of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association.
• Head of Diplomatic Relations for the Women in a Legal World association.
• Speaker at seminars and conferences organised by the firm.

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

Publications & disclosure (see articles on the Spanish website):

• The post-offence conduct of the legal person as a cause for exclusion from criminal liability.
• International sanctions and their implication in compliance programmes.
• A Spanish lawyer before the Court of Justice of the EU.
• ‘Complicated and overlapping’: How Spain implements EU sanctions.
• Consent and its importance in crimes against sexual freedom and indemnity.
• The use of data mining in compliance programmes to prevent corruption.
• A sector of singles and divorcees? The challenge for lawyers of maintaining a relationship.
• How Law Firms Can Attract and Retain Women in M&A and Other Specialised Practice Areas. (English)
• Promoting female talent starts with oneself.
• Travelling in times of COVID and states of alarm.
• So-called wilful blindness in criminal law.
• The necessary regulation of internal company investigations.
• How can we prevent a cyberattack during the coronavirus crisis?
  Legal observations: diplomatic immunity and the death of Harry Dunn.
• Lawyers who win their cases in the media.
• How should you dress for a trial, when first impressions are everything.
• The impunity of outrages has ended | Opinion (expansion.com).
• Is any aggression by a man against a woman in a current or former relationship considered gender-based violence?
• Fear in the air: more safety for women.
• Reckless homicide?
• The social sentence of ‘La Manada’.
• How can law firms attract and retain women in M&A and other specialised practice areas?
• ‘Promoting female talent starts with oneself’ – LegalToday.
• ‘The use of data mining in compliance programmes to prevent corruption’ Published in: El Consultor de los Ayuntamientos, No. 2, Transparency 4.0 Section, February 2022.
• How the compliance function should be integrated into innovation processes from the outset (Gender Equality, Technology and Law).
• ‘Emerging technologies applied to compliance’, special issue of the magazine El Consultor de los Ayuntamientos ‘Smart governance’, Special I, April 2022, Madrid – Spain.
• ‘The legal vacuum in the field of cryptocurrencies’, LA LEY newspaper, No. 10252, Cyberlaw Section, 21 March 2023, Madrid – Spain.

Noteworthy success stories:

• ‘Cifuentes wins lawsuit against Eroski over the cream video: she will be awarded 30,000 euros in compensation’, Confilegal, January 2023, Madrid – Spain

Seminars:

Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce, Zaragoza 13 November 2024. Speaker. Seminar: ‘Compliance and its role in the internationalisation of companies’.

Institute of Compliance Officers, Madrid 24 September 2024. Speaker. Course: ‘International Sanctions’.

Chamber of Commerce of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 29 February 2024. Speaker. Event: ‘International Sanctions Breakfast’.

Institute of Compliance Officers, Madrid 5 October 2023. Speaker. Webinar: ‘Sanctions and Compliance’.

Instituto de Oficiales de Cumplimiento, Madrid 22 September 2023. Speaker. Compliance Breakfast: Internal Investigations and Validity of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings.

International Association for Cooperation in Fraud Prevention (ICPF), Madrid 21 February 2023. Speaker. Martesclass: Fighting fraud in cryptocurrencies.

World Compliance Association, Madrid 7 November 2022. Speaker. 5th National Anti-Fraud Congress.

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.

Institute of Compliance Officers, Madrid 20 April 2020.  Speaker. Webinar: ‘Compliance and Reputation’