Transforming legal challenges into opportunities

Xavier Junquera: With 37 years of experience advising national and international companies as a lawyer, counselor, and legal project coordinator.

At Junquera Legal, you will find a senior legal advisor dedicated to guiding companies through their projects, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance in today's increasingly complex and uncertain legal landscape.

Our advisory services empower informed decision-making, helping you avoid costly litigation and administrative penalties while guaranteeing your company's operational stability.

I work closely with both in-house and external teams, maintaining continuous and effective communication with the company’s management.

Furthermore, we can collaboratively analyze the operations and tasks of your company's various departments to identify risk areas, propose organizational and operational improvements, and ensure full legal compliance.

Practice, trajectory, and experience

With extensive experience advising national and international companies, executives, and boards across various sectors, my professional journey has seamlessly integrated the practice of law, the management of a professional services firm, team leadership, and coordination of multidisciplinary legal services.

I have 32 years of professional practice with Baker McKenzie in Spain, Europe, and the United States, including working at the firm's Foreign Trade Department in Chicago (1994-1995).

As the Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office, overseeing a team of over 70 professionals, I was a member of the firm’s international committees and the founder and director of the Public Law Practice in Spain.

I specialize in public law and regulatory advice, particularly in the industrial, tourism, and hotel sectors.

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Industrial / Commercial Sector

Providing comprehensive regulatory advice to the industrial sector, encompassing activity licenses, inspections, and sanctions. Our services include managing relations with public administration bodies, ensuring compliance with legal requirements for transportation, packaging, and waste management, and advising on environmental policies. We also handle service contracts and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) requirements.

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Real estate

Specialized legal services for the real estate sector, including reservation contracts, sales, purchases, and leases. Our expertise extends to sector regulations such as zoning, building permits, governing documents for residential developments, and sanctioning procedures.

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Tourism

Providing sector-specific regulatory advice tailored to online platforms, including activity permits, advertising compliance, and relationships with tourism agencies and regulators. Our services also encompass drafting specific sector contracts and ensuring compliance with environmental protection requirements.

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Hotels

Specialize in drafting specific hotel contracts and offering regulatory advice tailored to the sector. Our services include managing opening and activity license schemes, maintaining relations with administrative supervision bodies, ensuring compliance with consumer protection regulations and procedures, handling inspections, addressing ESG requirements, and navigating technical regulations.

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Services

Make robust decisions that ensure legal certainty in key projects.

Effective decisions must not only be valid today but also secure the future. My services are divided into three distinct areas, providing a comprehensive understanding of risks and offering clear, practical solutions with the best action plan.

Legal
Services

Regulatory analysis for products and sectors
Contract drafting and negotiation
Defense in sanctioning procedures
Lead attorney in administrative litigation
Activity license schemes
Public-private partnerships
Urbanism and environmental law
Analysis and advice in complex pre-litigation scenarios

Independent
Counselor

Assists management bodies in the legal analysis of their projects
Identifies legal and regulatory risks
Designs internal protocols for legal compliance
Identifies the best interlocutors in the Public Administration bodies
Advises on the decision-making process in international projects

Project
Coordinator

Analyzes company projects to identify key legal issues
Selects multidisciplinary external advisory teams
Assists in designing in-house training programs
Coordinates in-house and external advisory teams in the execution of ad hoc projects
Supervises external advisory teams
Reports to the company’s management bodies

"Law is not a logic in itself, but a logic in which we must insert the values of life"

Prof. Pierre Legendre

Testimonials and reviews

"Covering both contentious and advisory matters, the manufacturing team at Baker McKenzie is active across a wide range of sectors, including aviation, electronics, chemicals, steel and construction, Xavier Junquera oversee the team in Barcelona. Junquera is the name to note for public law and regulatory issues."

Chambers 2024

"Xavier Junquera climbs a tier up the rankings as a result of strong market support. He heads up the firm's public law team and represents clients in negotiations, as well as advising on public procurement, concession agreements and urban planning mandates. He has additional expertise in environmental law. Strengths:"Xavier Junquera has very strong technical knowledge. He knows all the tricks and tools to achieve the client's objectives."

Chambers 2023

"The team led by Xavier Junquera has been a pioneer in large cases of regulatory intervention in disruptive business models."

"Xavier Junquera has a deep understanding of the digital market and regulatory restrictions in Spain and the EU. Very few lawyers in Spain have this level of expertise. Availability, good collaboration with the client and ability to propose viable alternatives for this type of business."

Legal 500 2023

"Xavier Junquera has a broad public law practice across various areas, including environment law. He leads the firm's Barcelona team, and he earns praise from clients both for his personal contributions to complex matters and for his ability to "direct different people under his leadership"

Chambers 2022

"The real estate group at Baker McKenzie in Spain assist international and domestic banks, funds, alternative lenders, real estate lessees and major corporates involved in high-value, cross-border transactions. Led Xavier Junquera regulatory specialist in Barcelona, the group’s portfolio spans the retail, finance, healthcare, and hospitality sectors, and includes key clients Radisson, Banco Santander and Marriott. The group’s broad service covers restructurings, management agreements, leasing agreement negotiations, asset acquisitions and due diligence."

Legal 500 2022

"Xavier Junquera is endorsed by clients as "serious, responsible, responsive and extremely focused on his work." Another notes that "he is incisive and clear," adding: "He doesn't give up until he gets a result." He represents clients in negotiations, public procurement, concession agreements and urban planning, with additional expertise in environmental law."

Chambers 2021

"Xavier Junquera: The proximity and the way he gets involved with work"

"Delivers practical solutions to complex problems”

Legal 500 2021

"Xavier Junquera is described by clients as "extremely knowledgeable, well-spoken and very helpful." He acts for domestic and international companies as well as government agencies on a wide range of contentious and regulatory public law mandates."

Chambers 2021

"With ‘true, deep expertise in the local urban law environment, combined with the service delivery of a global law firm’, Baker McKenzie's team has expertise in the key areas of regulatory advice, administrative law, administrative litigation, public tenders and the setting up of foreign investment projects. The team is leads by ‘outstanding lawyer’ Xavier Junquera, who is noted for his ‘detailed knowledge of public law that enables him to achieve the clients' goals."

"Xavier Junquera is a technically excellent lawyer, with a detailed knowledge of public law that enables him to achieve the clients’ goals."

"Very professional and close to the interests of the client."

Legal 500 2021

"Xavier Junquera: Practical solutions to complex problems are the key"

Legal 500 2021

"The ‘very responsive, extremely professional and skilled’ Baker McKenzie is experienced in advising on public law matters and arbitrations in international, national and regional courts. The firm has regulatory and administrative law expertise, with a focus on the application of administrative legislation and the regulated sectors. The practice is also known for advising on foreign investments, methods of entry, bidding, and M&A activity of Spanish infrastructure groups outside Spain. Xavier Junquera leads the team in Barcelona, who combines a ‘deep knowledge base and extensive experience in urban law’, with ‘exceptional response times and availability’; his expertise lies in public law and regulatory issues."

Legal 500 2020