Teresa Gutiérrez Chacón

Senior Vice President, Spain

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Teresa Gutiérrez Chacón is a Senior Vice President at Burford Capital, where she leads Burford’s legal finance business in Spain, originating new business and assessing and underwriting legal risk for companies and law firms. She brings more than 16 years of experience in complex dispute resolution, international arbitration and legal strategy.

Prior to joining Burford, Teresa served as chief legal counsel for Pavilion Energy’s European trading business. Earlier, she spent 14 years as a senior associate in litigation and dispute resolution at Freshfields and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

In addition to her professional practice, she teaches at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Teresa holds an LLM from Nottingham Trent University, a Master’s in Financial Studies from Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles and a law degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Experience

Pavilion Energy

Chief Legal Counsel, European Trading Business
Gómez, Acebo & Pombo

Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution Department
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution Department

Education

Nottingham Trent University

LLM
Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles

Master’s, Financial Studies
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Law degree

Notable news and publications

Burford Quarterly As arbitration in Spain evolves, legal finance gains ground

Video Inside Spain's evolving legal finance landscape

Blog 5 minutes with... Teresa Gutiérrez Chacón

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Experience

Pavilion Energy

Gómez, Acebo & Pombo

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Education

Nottingham Trent University

Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Notable news and publications

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