About us
Our firm
Dedicated to people
Each person, couple and family is and has unique circumstances; therefore, our mission is to apply legal knowledge and experience to the task of being the best tailor. We advise people on the model and the right fabric for each occasion; we take measurements and make tests until we get a tailored suit with which they feel comfortable, perfectly adapted to their circumstances and legally possible.
Our work philosophy translates into a personal treatment, in creating the necessary closeness to talk about complex issues, always considering the global picture: the needs of the children and the good of the family. We approach each case giving priority to negotiation as the main tool to reach agreements, to maintain the bonds.
Team
Verónica van Kesteren Valery
During her first stage in Spain, she worked as a consultant for Public Administrations at Arthur Andersen and other consulting firms. More than ten years ago she returned to the legal world specializing in Family and Inheritance Law; she shares her professional dedication with other areas such as disability, being a consultant for CERMI Comunidad de Madrid, an entity dedicated to the defense of people with disabilities in the Community of Madrid. Her practice areas also include real estate law, international contracts, pharmaceutical and distribution law and regulatory compliance.
She is currently the head (of Counsel) of the Family and Inheritance Law area of Lupicinio, International Law Firm and has been linked to Santiago de Miota Law Firm (Madrid) Abogados de Familia, a firm with more than 40 years of experience in the sector.
During her time as a lawyer in Venezuela, she focused her practice on Administrative Law, working for various agencies such as the Attorney General’s Office, the Prosecutor’s Office and the First Court of Administrative Law, a collegiate court in which she worked as a rapporteur in charge of drafting judgments for three magistrates.
She has lived in Madrid for more than 25 years and speaks Spanish (mother tongue) and English (fluent). Her free time is dedicated to her daughters, writing, reading, and traveling.
Alia Sainz Martínez
She is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and a member of the Spanish Association of Family Lawyers (AEAFA).
She has more than 10 years of professional experience exclusively in Family Law and Inheritance Law; however, she is currently working in other legal areas such as Real Estate Law.
During most of her professional life she worked at Santiago de Miota Abogados de Familia (Madrid), a boutique firm specialized in Family and Inheritance Law with more than 40 years of experience.
She also provides advice in the different areas of the real estate activity both to family clients and to Inmobiliaria Garay, a company with offices in Burgos and Madrid with which she has been working as an in-house lawyer for several years. This has allowed her to deepen and develop her knowledge and accumulate an important experience in Real Estate Law.
She speaks Spanish and English.
In her free time, she likes to travel and practice sports; she is also a great lover of gastronomy.
Friends
Friends are the family we choose
Lupicinio
Founded in 1980, by Lupicinio Rodríguez and León Barriola († 2018), the Firm has developed a senior legal practice based on critical values, assisting with this premise a wide range of clients during its 40 years of history: large corporations, small and medium-sized companies, Public Administrations, directors and administrators, Associations and Foundations.
To Lupicinio, to those who have contributed to create and consolidate this Firm and to the wonderful human team that develops it day by day, we are united by bonds based on long-standing relationships. We share structural values such as the inalienable soundness of theoretical knowledge, learning based on experience, the creativity of proposals and the relevance of the emotional component in the solution of any conflict or negotiation.
In short, with Lupicinio International Law Firm (L.I.L.F.) we share a space based on an approach to the profession, on the need to address the issues of the people for and by whom we work from a 360º vision and at least four dimensions.
Macho Carracedo abogados
The firm of friends Macho Carracedo was born from the union of two professionals who, after having developed their professional careers in large law firms providing services throughout the national territory, decided to start their own business independently. The framework agreement of collaboration with this Bilbao firm allows us to handle matters and procedures in Bilbao and its surroundings as well.
