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RCD Partners

JudithSaladrigas

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Partner

Experience

Judith has extensive experience providing legal-strategic advice and specialised training to all agents of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. (start-ups, spin-offs, spin-outs, knowledge-based companies, universities, foundations for biomedical research, public research centres, innovation agencies, science parks, public administrations, private investors, venture capital firms, industries, and large corporations), in all kinds of innovation projects (research activity, knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship, investment, public-private collaboration, corporate venturing in its different variants, and M&A) and throughout all stages (incorporation, growth and expansion, structuring, and in the carrying out of their activities), in regard to strategic and recurring aspects, in addition to serving as a Secretary (non-director), on several Boards of Directors of digital, scientific, and technological companies.

She has also authored and co-authored studies supporting legislative modifications and the maturation of ecosystems related to her area of practice and expertise, including her collaboration in the OECD Report on improving knowledge transfer and collaboration between science and business in Spain of November 29, 2021, having led the development of internal regulations for several public institutions regarding their participation in knowledge-based companies. This has earned her the appointment as a member of the Committee of Experts on Transfer Activity and Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Spanish National Research Council, and the Galician Innovation Agency.


OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

  • Member of the Board of Directors of different companies of digital, scientific and technological natures
  • She has participated in different academic articles, as well as in studies related to their areas of practice, including studies supporting regulatory changes and the growth and consolidation of ecosystems


Education

  • Law Degree, CEU San Pablo University
  • Master of Advanced Studies in Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Barcelona (UB)
  • Course on Investment Processes, ESADE Business School

Awards and recognitions

2024
LEGAL 500

  • Healthcare and Life Sciences

  • BEST LAWYERS
    • Corporate and M&A Law

    • 2023
      LEGAL 500
      • Healthcare and Life Sciences
      • Public

      • BEST LAWYERS
        • Corporate and M&A Law

        • 2023
          LEADERS LEAGUE
          • Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech: Life Sciences
          • Innovation, Technology & Telecom: Technology

          • BEST LAWYERS
            • Corporate and M&A Law

            • 2022
              LEADERS LEAGUE
              • Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech: Life Sciences
              • Innovation, Technology & Telecom: Technology

              • BEST LAWYERS
                • Corporate and M&A Law

                • 2021
                  LEADERS LEAGUE
                  • Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
                  • Innovation, Technology & Telecom: Technology

                  • BEST LAWYERS
                    • Corporate and M&A Law

                    • 2020
                      LEGAL 500
                      • Healthcare and Life Sciences

                      • LEADERS LEAGUE
                        • Health, Pharma & Biotechnology
                        • Technologies, Internet & Telecommunications: Technology and Digital Services

                        • BEST LAWYERS
                          • Corporate and M&A Law

                          • 2019
                            LEGAL 500
                            • Healthcare and Life Sciences
                            • Public

                            • BEST LAWYERS
                              • Corporate and M&A Law

                              • LEADERS LEAGUE
                                • Technologies, Internet & Telecommunications

                                • 2018
                                  BEST LAWYERS 2018
                                  • Corporate and M&A Law