Susana is a Law graduate from Universidad de Barcelona, where she also took a Master’s degree in Advanced Legal Studies specialising in Public Law.
She is vice-dean of the Barcelona Bar and chairs the Commission for the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ICAB. She is also Honorary Consul of Ireland in Barcelona.
She has been deputy head of the Legal of the Conselleria d’Economia i Finances de la Generalitat de Catalunya for which she carried out advisory functions aimed at advising the Direcció General de Patrimoni de la Generalitat de Catalunya (issuing reports on legal viability in relation to all areas of Property Law in relation to the Generalitat de Catalunya).
She is in charge of the ICAB´s Legal department and member of the Commission for Relations with the Administration of Justice for the contentious-administrative jurisdiction and of the Regulations Commission. She is also director of the journal Món Jurídic.
She is a specialist in Administrative Law, performing advisory functions (advice, preparation of reports) and contentious functions (negotiation, administrative and jurisdictional contentious-administrative proceedings). Her practice has focused on advising companies, as well as third sector entities and public administrations, on matters related to public procurement, subsidies, Competition Law, authorisations and licences, public assets, sanctioning procedures, ports and coasts, environment, energy and telecommunications, among other matters. In Commercial Law area, her professional activity has been developed in the field of family businesses, advising on taxation, corporate reorganisation, restructuring operations and corporate governance, succession planning and generational handover, family agreements and protocols.
She teaches Administrative Law in the Master´s degree in Access to the Legal Profession at ISDE Law & Business School.
