Cristina Bahamonde is a Spanish Abogada specialising in Private Client, Civil and Commercial Law, strategic negotiation and complex dispute resolution, with over 20 years of professional experience.
She advises international private clients, families, shareholders, executives and companies with assets, investments or business interests in Spain, providing legal advice, representation and dispute resolution in inheritance, family, property, contractual, corporate and commercial matters.
Her practice has a particular focus on cases involving significant assets, conflicting interests, complex negotiations or critical decisions, where legal strategy must be considered alongside the client’s financial, business and personal objectives.
A distinctive element of Cristina’s practice is her specialisation in strategic negotiation and critical decision-making. She advises clients on how to structure complex negotiations, assess alternatives, manage litigation risk, strengthen their negotiating position and determine the most effective course of action before committing to a legal or negotiation strategy.
Cristina is the author of the CRITERIO Method – eight perspectives for making decisions with clarity and rigor, a structured framework she developed for strategic negotiation and complex decision-making.
CRITERIO examines every decision through eight interconnected perspectives: Context, Risk, Interests, Timing, Scenarios, Relationships, Information and Options. Rather than following a rigid or linear process, each perspective challenges and, where necessary, requires reconsideration of the others.
The purpose of the method is to prevent an initial inclination from acquiring the appearance of a conclusion before it has been properly tested.
Cristina applies this methodology particularly to corporate and shareholder disputes, inheritance and family asset conflicts, contractual disputes and pre-litigation negotiations, helping clients protect their interests, control risk and preserve strategic options.
She works alongside Del Canto Chambers’ international tax specialists on matters where Spanish legal, patrimonial and tax issues intersect, providing international clients with coordinated advice concerning their interests in Spain.
Cristina advises international private clients and families on legal matters concerning their personal and patrimonial interests in Spain, including:
- Inheritance and succession matters, including estate administration, distribution of assets and representation of heirs.
- Family and matrimonial matters, particularly where real estate, companies, investments or other significant assets are involved.
- Property and real estate matters, including contractual, ownership and co-ownership issues.
- Disputes and negotiations between heirs, family members and joint owners.
- Legal matters involving foreign clients with assets or interests in Spain.
- Coordination with tax advisers, notaries and other professionals where succession, property, family assets or cross-border issues intersect.
Commercial & Corporate Matters
Cristina advises companies, shareholders, executives and entrepreneurs on commercial relationships, negotiations and disputes, including:
- Drafting, review and negotiation of commercial and civil contracts.
- Shareholder and corporate disputes, including majority/minority conflicts and 50/50 shareholder deadlocks.
- Disputes involving joint ventures, strategic alliances and business partners.
- Negotiation of the termination, restructuring or renegotiation of commercial and contractual relationships.
- Conflicts involving suppliers, partners and other key stakeholders.
- Civil and commercial litigation in Spain.
Strategic Negotiation & Dispute Resolution
Cristina integrates legal strategy, advanced negotiation and structured decision-making into the management of complex disputes.
Through the CRITERIO Method, she helps clients analyse precisely what is being decided, identify risks and potentially irreversible consequences, distinguish positions from underlying interests, assess timing and alternative scenarios, anticipate relationships and shifts in power, separate verified information from assumptions, and develop genuinely different options before choosing a course of action.
Her approach is particularly relevant to disputes where legal, financial, business and relational interests converge, and where preserving value, controlling risk and maintaining strategic options may be more important than pursuing litigation as an end in itself.
