Álvaro Mato is a principal associate in the area of Criminal Law and Internal Investigations in the Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration department at Garrigues.

He specializes in offenses against honor and privacy, tax offenses, financial and corporate offenses, intellectual property offenses, market and consumer offenses (corruption in business and relating to competition), corruption in the public sector (bribery, influence peddling, misappropriation of public funds), environmental offenses, land planning and zoning offenses, forgery and misrepresentation, and offenses against workers’ rights (occupational health and safety).

He has participated in numerous criminal proceedings involving the above offenses before the courts, bringing private prosecutions against and acting in defense of individuals and legal entities.

He has worked with a group of corporate compliance experts at the firm on the design, preparation and implementation of corporate compliance plans, programs and models (risk assessment, preparation of criminal risk maps and control measures, development of criminal risk management systems, organizational models, codes of ethics and codes of professional conduct, internal policies, anti-corruption policies and manuals, ethics channels and whistle-blowing channels, internal investigations and disciplinary action systems).

Álvaro Mato is a member of the Madrid Bar Association.

• Degree in Law and Business Administration, Universidad Nebrija.
• Executive Master’s Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues in collaboration with Harvard Law School.