Maria Del Carmen De Vivero De Porras

Maria Del Carmen De Vivero De is an Associate Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Málaga. She holds a Law degree from the same institution and a PhD from the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED), where she was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. She currently serves as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network (ICN) and is a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin (UCD). Her professional career began within the judiciary, where she served as a Substitute Public Prosecutor and later as a Substitute Judge in Málaga and Palma de Mallorca, as well as a Substitute Magistrate at the High Court of Justice of Andalusia. She subsequently joined the legal department of listed banking institution, where she held Senior In-House position of responsibility. In this capacity, she was actively involved in complex merger and restructuring processes within the banking sector, participating in corporate integration committees in transactions between regulated credit institutions, and she was appointed Trustee of a professional sports foundation linked to the financial sector. She was a Sutherland Fellow at University College Dublin, where she completed a research stay.  Her academic research focuses on corporate restructuring and insolvency law, financial markets regulation, competition law and corporate governance. In recent years, she has developed a well-established line of research on sustainability regulation and the legal framework of the circular economy within the European Union, with particular attention to ESG requirements, sustainable corporate governance and the interaction between financial regulation and sustainability policies. She is the author of four monographs, fourteen peer-reviewed journal articles, twenty-seven book chapters and one book review, and has co-edited two collective volumes on securities markets and start-ups. She has participated in international, national and regional competitive research projects, as well as teaching innovation initiatives, and has collaborated in knowledge-transfer projects with private entities. Since 2008, she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at several Spanish universities. Since 2024, she has served as Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Market Research at the University of Málaga.
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