Jesús Martrat and David Villa, new RCD – Rousaud Costas Duran partners
Jesús Martrat has over 20 years of experience in the pharma sector and specializes in regulatory matters, corporate government and in privacy and data protection. David Villa is an expert in innovation and entrepreneurship and has ample experience providing comprehensive advice to start-ups, especially technology-based start-ups
RCD - Rousaud Costas Duran continues to consolidate its expansion by adding new partners and promoting internal talent. Jesús Martrat joins the firm as a Pharma and Privacy partner and David Villa has been promoted as a new Innovation and Entrepreneurship partner. With them, the firm now has 30 partners leading a team of more than 200 professionals.
Jesús Martrat
Jesús Martrat is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience providing legal advice to the pharma industry on corporate and strategic matters, such as licensing and similar contracts, M&A and related integration processes, compliance, etc. He also advises on all kinds of corporate operations: from the preliminary research until the final phases of the product’s life cycle, as well as in its development and regulatory approval, production and commercialization. He is also a specialist in privacy and data protection matters.
Prior to joining RCD, Jesús held several positions in the pharma industry as in-house lawyer at Almirall laboratories. He actively participated in corporate government matters, such as implementing company policies, Compliance, Ethics Codes and Whistleblowing Channels. He has also been responsible for privacy and data protection, and has been a member of corporate committees such as a Health, Safety & Environment Committee, Drug Safety Committee and Quality Committee.
David Villa
On the other hand, David Villa has been promoted as new Innovation and Entrepreneurship partner. He regularly advises a wide range of clients, including start-ups and leading entrepreneurs in the e-commerce, ICT and life sciences sectors, investors, accelerators and incubators and big business corporations.
He is secretary of the board of several technology-based companies, and has over 15 years of experience. He is an expert in corporate, M&A and IP law and his practice features advising start-ups and entrepreneurs on all phases of the development of their products, the negotiation and execution of private equity and venture capital operations, advice on the sale of companies, the design of restructuring and internationalization operations, legal advice on corporate venturing programs, the drafting and implementation of protection policies of intangible assets, and the negotiation of agreements to lease IP rights (mainly software and patents licensing).
In the words of Adolf Rousaud, Managing Partner of RCD: “Our firm has extensive experience advising in the field of life sciences. With the appointment of Jesús we will strengthen our specialization in the pharma industry –a key sector for our company– and we will improve our coverage in a constantly evolving field. On the other hand, the promotion of David Villa is a well-deserved recognition for his work over recent years and demonstrates the firm’s commitment to the development of its professionals, key assets to consolidate the growth of the firm. For me, and also for Ignasi Costas as Head of HR, it is especially gratifying that, again, a professional of our own who has developed most of their career at our firm, is promoted to partner”.
