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Sonsoles Centeno

Partner

Pérez-Llorca

Sonsoles Centeno joined Pérez-Llorca in 2021 as a partner in European Union Law and responsible for leading the opening of the Brussels office. She is a State Attorney on leave and an expert in litigation and regulation.

Experience

Sonsoles has a very deep knowledge of European institutions and has more than 18 years of experience holding different positions within the Public Administration.

Until she joined the Firm, she was Deputy Director General for European Union and International Affairs (Ministry of Justice), Chief State Attorney before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation ) and Agent of the Kingdom of Spain.

Previously, she held the position of State Lawyer-Legal Counsel of the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels, she was a Lawyer at the General Court of the European Union, State Lawyer before the National Court, Contentious-Administrative Chamber , and State Attorney before the Central Contentious-Administrative Courts.

Administrative
Competition
European Union Law
Litigation

2018 Public Leadership Program, IESE Business School
2003 Entry into the Corps of State Lawyers
2001 Graduate in Law from the Pontifical University of Comillas of Madrid-ICADE

Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid (ICAM).

Officer’s Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2022).
Commission of the Order of Civil Merit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. (2019).
Distinguished Cross of the first class of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort, Ministry of Justice. (2017).
Best Lawyers®: Competition and Antitrust Law.

"On Achmea, the Autonomy of Union Law, Mutual Trust and What lies ahead", European Papers, 2018 (co-author).
Participation in the book «Competition Law Treaty», Aranzadi, 2013 with the chapter "Procedures in the Defense of Competition.
Participation in the book: "The Regulatory and Supervisory Administration", Dykinson. (2009) with the chapters "Concurrent intervention of the different regulators" and "the principle of transparency in supervisory entities: particularities."
Participation in various seminars, training activities, etc. at the Diplomatic School, Center for Legal Studies, Menéndez Pelayo University, University of Seville, etc.