PROA, a communications and reputation management consultancy, has joined María Segimón de Manzanos to its Advisory Board. The lawyer has more than three decades of professional practice and will bring to PROA her experience in the world of business and corporate governance.
María Segimón is a lawyer of counsel of the firm's Commercial Law Department Escalona & De FuentesShe specialises in the fields of Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Real Estate Law. At the same time, she is a member of the Board of Governors of the Madrid Bar AssociationThe Audit Committee, where he chairs the Internal Audit Committee, is a member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee and is responsible for International.
She was previously a partner in the area of corporate from Clifford Chance and DLA Piper in Spain (specialising in capital markets M&A). He was also responsible for the corporate legal advice of Ferrovialand General Counsel for Spain and Portugal and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the real estate fund management company CBRE Global Investors. She has also been a proprietary director (on behalf of Ferrovial) of the listed Polish company Budimex and Habitat Real Estateindependent director of Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios Socimi, S.A.of Axiare Patrimonio Socimi S.A. and Moove Cars Sustainable Transport, S.L.as well as member and chairwoman of several committees of the boards of these companies.
Maria Segimon has stated that "I admire PROA's ability to innovate and offer a quality service adapted to the needs of each of its clients, as well as its vision to seek new communication strategies to position them in the areas where they seek to be. I hope to bring my knowledge of the business world to advise the consultancy both in relation to the needs of its current clients and in the search for new business and the adaptation of its corporate governance to its growth".
In the words of Lucía Casanueva and Valvanuz SernaAccording to PROA's managing partners, "companies need to be in tune with the citizenry - customers, authorities, employees and shareholders. At PROA we help companies understand the conversation, the context and the most effective way to move in increasingly complex and changing environments. María Segimón has more than a quarter of a century of experience in the legal profession, a profession that she has also practised from within very important companies, which will provide us with valuable experience to help us understand the needs of our clients and to consolidate PROA as the strategic communications consultancy of reference".