María is principal associate in Garrigues' Corporate Department since 2022, having joined the firm in 2011.

Between September 2014 and December 2015, María worked in Garrigues' New York office advising on numerous cross-border transactions, particularly US investments in Spain.

Her areas of expertise are as follows:

• Mergers & Acquisitions: she regularly advises on international transactions including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate restructuring processes in the technology, retail and transportation sectors.
• Securities Market: specialises in complex securities market transactions and corporate governance of listed companies, providing recurring advice on these matters to numerous companies, including IBEX-35 companies.
• Commercial Contracts and Corporate Law: she provides recurring advice on board secretarial and contracting matters to both listed and unlisted companies.

She also participates on a recurring basis in the Garrigues Chair in Modernisation of Company Law in collaboration with the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.

• Master Executive in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues and Harvard Law School.
• LLM, Instituto de Empresa (MAJ).
• Degree in Law and diploma in Business administration, Universidad Pontificia  Comillas (ICADE, E-1).

Madrid Bar Association.

• "Say on Climate: the impact of climate action and its implementation by the governance bodies of listed companies". Corporate Practice Yearbook 2022 for Lawyers.
• "General Meeting: shareholders' right to information vs the protection of the corporate interest in the context of an acquisition of a company." Corporate Practice Yearbook 2024 for Lawyers.