About Us

Strong Abogados was founded as a corporate and real estate law firm in Sevilla in 2000 by Pura Strong. In 2004, recognizing the language barriers that many of our corporate clients faced in other aspects of their business, Strong Abogados began offering accounting and payroll services. In 2005, Strong Abogados moved to Barcelona, the city most frequently chosen by our clients in starting up their business in Spain.

We are committed to taking advantage of the Spanish government's latest extranet initiatives -- online services, electronic signatures, and electronic file transfer -- thereby passing on faster turnaround and reduced costs to you.


Our team:		Of counsel:
Pura Strong		Helena Maillo
Susana Sola		Lina LLorente
David Dunphy
Lourdes Martinez
Marisa Fernandez
Tom Strong

Pura Strong

Pura practices primarily in the areas of international commercial law and taxation. Her focus is on establishing small- and medium-size companies in Spain, as well as tax and estate planning.

Pura was born in Spain in 1966. Pura graduated with honors in 1988 at the Law School of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Pura holds a Master's in corporate taxation at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and four years of post-graduate studies in civil and commercial law. In 1996, Pura completed her studies at Harvard University with courses in business law and taxation.

Pura's professional experience began in Madrid as an attorney specializing in securities, financial institutions, banking law, and taxation. In New York, Pura joined a financial services institution to provide financial planning to individuals and corporations. Pura then worked at a law firm focusing on corporate law and estate planning. Pura holds Series 6 and Series 63 NASDAQ licenses.

Pura is a member of:

The Bar Association of Barcelona (as of 2005), ID: 30855
The Bar Association of Sevilla (as of 2002), ID: 10710
The Bar Association of Madrid (as of 1994), ID: 50488
The International Bar Association of London (as of 2002), ID: 148878

Susana Sola

Susana specializes in providing a comprehensive legal analysis of a company, including its corporate operations, and all types of contracts.

Prior to Strong Abogados, Susana began her career at Gómez Acebo & Pombo, where she worked in the areas of corporate and procedural law. She then moved to KPMG ABOGADOS, and was promoted to senior director in her final eight years there. At KPMG, she specialized in corporate law, property law, and arbitration.

Susana received her law degree in 1994 from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores Abad Oliba. She followed this with post-graduate degrees in Business Law from Abad Oliba, Corporate Law and the Mercantile Registry from ESADE, and Litigation in International Commerce also from ESADE.

Susana is a native speaker of Spanish and Catalan, and is fluent in English.

David Dunphy

David is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, having received his law degree from Hull University, and a master's degree from the University of Leeds. David recently relocated from Leeds to Barcelona. In England, he worked for the law firms Clifford Johnston & Co, and Hartley & Worstenholme. He brings to Strong Abogados his expertise in Property law, Family law, Wills and Probate.

Marisa Fernandez

Marisa is our payroll expert, coming to Strong Abogados with 16 years of experience in employee payroll, contracts, training, and risk prevention.

Marisa graduated in 1991 from the Universidad de Barcelona. She also holds a Master's degree from 1999 in Workplace Risk Prevention from ITEC.

Lourdes Martinez

Lourdes joined Strong Abogados in 2006 as head accountant. She has more than nine years' professional experience in accounting, taxes, and international trade.

Lourdes graduated from Maria Auxiliadora Salesianas in 1993 with a degree in Business Administration.

Tom Strong

As his wife's law firm expanded, Tom relinquished his career as computer programmer and joined Strong Abogados in 2004, taking over billing and marketing for the firm.

Tom graduated from Haverford College in 1985 with a degree in mathematics.

Helena Maillo

Helena works off-counsel in the Strong Abogados office as a labour lawyer. Helena received her law degree from the University of Salamanca in 1992. She worked in the firm Garrigues Andersen before starting her own firm Consilience.

Lina LLorente

Lina has ten years of experience in real estate developments and urban planning. Her career spans work in Chile, Madrid, Sevilla, and Barcelona.
She joined Strong Abogados in June of 2006, in charge of the Real Estate department.

Lina graduated from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1996 with a degree in Architecture. (In Spain, this is a 7-year degree that covers structural engineering, as well as architectural design.)
She is a member of:

El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Sevilla since 2000.
La Sociedad de Tasaciones Arquitasa since 2005.