Moventia, a multinational mobility specialist with roots as a family company, has appointed Marià de Visa as the new Head of Legal at the group. This new hire strengthens the corporate structure of the company at a key moment in its overall evolution framed by business expansion, organisational consolidation and the regulatory challenges associated with the mobility sector.
Marià de Visa joins Moventia after nearly a decade at Cuatrecasas, where he filled several roles with particular ties to administrative, environmental, regulatory, transactional and public procurement law. His career has enabled him to regularly take part in lawsuits and other processes of high legal complexity, providing advice on administrative, regulatory, environmental and public procurement law, as well as solutions in highly regulated environments.
The Corporate Vice-President of Moventia, Sílvia Martí, said “With Marià de Visa joining the company, we are responding to a desire to continue strengthening the corporate structure of Moventia at a time of growth and transformation. Having someone who specialises in regulation, sustainability and public procurement will enable us to navigate an increasingly more complex legal environment with greater certainty while strengthening the role played by our legal department as a strategic partner for the business”.
In turn, Marià de Visa added “I am joining Moventia with the desire to bring a practical and transversal legal perspective that is strongly connected to the business. I believe that the legal department must work closely with teams, understand their needs and help to convert complexity into solutions that can allow for progress based on security. The mobility sector is undergoing a period of far-reaching transformation, and the legal department must be a strategic asset for anticipating risks and creating opportunities. I embark on this new venture with a commitment to contributing to the Moventia project through thoroughness, anticipation and collaboration, and I am grateful to the company for the confidence placed in me”.
A profile specialising in regulated sectors
Marià de Visa is a lawyer specialising in administrative and environmental law with extensive experience in highly regulated sectors, such as transport, energy, and waste management, water and the marine environment. Furthermore, during his professional career at Cuatrecasas, he provided advice and technical defence in fields of particularly strategic relevance for a mobility company such as Moventia.
In the academic field, Marià de Visa is also a professor of administrative and environmental law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Abat Oliba CEU University.
His career combines experience in legal advice and technical defence for companies, involvement in complex projects and sound academic training. He holds a Degree in Law and a Master’s Degree in Access to Legal Practice, as well as a noteworthy specialisation in environmental affairs, for which he obtained outstanding academic results and an extraordinary award for the University Master in Environmental Law, as well as others in the fields of public procurement and company valuations. He is also the author of several publications and articles in specialised legal journals and forums. This combination of professional experience, sectoral knowledge and academic specialisation brings to Moventia a holistic and strategic legal perspective applied to business, which is especially relevant at a time when mobility is facing new regulatory, environmental and operational challenges.