Bergada Abogados hires Marina Ventaja and puts Mariona Marin in charge of Company Liquidation

Bergada Abogados, a firm based in Agramunt (Lleida) specialised in insolvency law and Second Chance, has announced a double hire: Marina Ventaja joins as a lawyer in the legal team and Mariona Marin takes over the leadership of the Company Liquidation Department, Lawyerpress reports.

The move consolidates the growth strategy of a firm that has made specialisation in insolvency its identity mark in the Catalan legal market, and which with these two arrivals simultaneously reinforces its legal processing capacity and its corporate advisory infrastructure.

Ventaja has more than five years of experience and joins the team handling the firm's insolvency and Second Chance files, with the aim of strengthening the capacity to handle and follow up those proceedings. Marin, for her part, leads the area dedicated to accompanying companies through dissolution and liquidation processes, a hire the firm links to growing demand for advice on the orderly closure of companies and which gives that service its own leadership for the first time.

The double hire covers the two legs of the firm's business. On one side, insolvency legal work - creditors' proceedings and discharge of unsatisfied liabilities files - the firm's historic core, where processing capacity determines clients' real timelines. On the other, corporate advice on business closure, which the firm now gives its own leadership.

Profile of the hires

Mariona Marin comes from the real estate sector, where she has built her career in asset management and commercial team leadership. She has worked as a territorial director, coordinating in-house teams and external collaborators, and has taken on commercial management and results monitoring responsibilities. At the head of Company Liquidation she will manage a department with which the firm seeks to accompany business owners during the closure of their activity.

"Closing a company is not a failure, but a decision that must be made with the best possible advice," says Marta Bergada, lawyer and founding partner of the firm. On the double hire, she adds: "Marina Ventaja and Mariona Marin arrive to bring talent, commitment and specialisation to a team that keeps growing. Every insolvency file is unique and demands dedication, rigour and closeness."

Marin's profile responds to a logic frequent in new-generation firms: bringing into the leadership of service areas profiles with management experience, not only legal, capable of organising processes, coordinating teams and measuring results. Company liquidation, with its chained phases and multiple interlocutors - tax advisers, registries, public administrations - is especially suited to that project management approach.

In Ventaja's case, her more than five years of experience join a team that handles two types of proceedings with very different client profiles: corporate creditors' proceedings, with their coordination demands between insolvency administrators, commercial courts and creditors, and Second Chance files for individuals, where sensitivity in dealings is as decisive as legal technique. Reinforcing both fronts at once suggests the firm handles a growing portfolio in both lines.

Company liquidation as a practice in its own right

The creation of a specific company liquidation department reflects the professionalisation of a service traditionally handled as an annex to general commercial advice. The orderly closure of a company requires rigorously going through several phases: the dissolution resolution, the appointment of liquidators, the liquidation operations - payment of debts, realisation of assets, distribution of the remainder - the extinction deed and the cancellation of registry entries. Each phase carries its own tax and employment readings, and errors in the process can project liability onto directors and liquidators.

That a firm specialised in insolvency adds an area dedicated to out-of-court closure makes market sense: not every company in difficulty needs a creditors' proceeding, and a significant share of business cessations are resolved through a planned dissolution and liquidation when the company retains sufficient solvency to meet its obligations. Early advice is precisely what allows choosing between both routes with complete information.

Specialisation and national scope

With both arrivals, the firm aims to increase its capacity to manage files for individuals and companies across the whole national territory, maintaining personalised attention throughout the proceedings. Insolvency and Second Chance are two of the firm's main areas of specialisation, at a time of high activity for the specialty: the doctrinal debate on the discharge of unsatisfied liabilities escalated this very week to the CJEU with the preliminary references raised by Alicante courts, which anticipates months of intense work for firms in the sector.

The model of a specialised firm based outside the big capitals with national reach is a consolidated trend in the Spanish legal market, especially in volume areas such as personal insolvency, where electronic processing makes it possible to operate from any location. The orderly liquidation of companies, for its part, is gaining weight as a service in its own right against improvised closure, with corporate, tax and employment implications that require planning.

The reinforcement of insolvency teams also comes in a context of sustained demand for the specialty. The Second Chance Law has turned debt discharge for individuals into a stable line of activity for firms across Spain, and specialised firms compete on processing capacity without sacrificing the individualised attention these files - often driven by families in situations of economic vulnerability - require. The founding partner's remarks about "dedication, rigour and closeness" point precisely at that positioning: volume with personalised treatment.

For the Catalan legal market, the move illustrates how firms in proximity specialties grow from specialisation rather than generalisation: Bergada Abogados has built its brand on insolvency and Second Chance, and its hires reinforce that core instead of dispersing it. It is a pattern observable in other provinces too, where insolvency firms have gone from niche operators to structures with differentiated areas and state-wide reach.

The firm, based in Agramunt (Lleida), has built its practice on insolvency law and the Second Chance Law, serving both individuals and companies in insolvency situations. Marin's arrival to lead the liquidation area responds, the firm explains, to growing demand for advice on company dissolution and liquidation processes, work that requires coordinating the orderly closure of the activity with the protection of partners and directors against later claims.

The continuity of advice is especially sensitive in the files Ventaja handles: a creditors' proceeding or a discharge of unsatisfied liabilities file runs for months, with chained procedural deadlines and a client relationship that demands close follow-up of each step, from the preliminary negotiation phase with creditors to the conclusion of the proceedings.

The lateral-hiring market keeps a high pace this season, with recent moves such as Manuel Esclapez joining EY Abogados or Natalia Gomez de Enterria joining ILIA/ETL Global.

Frequently asked questions

Who has Bergada Abogados hired?

Marina Ventaja, as a lawyer in the insolvency and Second Chance team, and Mariona Marin, as head of the Company Liquidation Department.

Where is the firm based?

In Agramunt (Lleida), operating nationwide, specialised in insolvency law and Second Chance.

What experience does Mariona Marin bring?

She comes from the real estate sector, with a track record in asset management and commercial team leadership, including territorial management.

What is company liquidation as a service?

Legal accompaniment in company dissolution and liquidation processes, aimed at an orderly closure of the business activity.

Sources

• Lawyerpress, "Bergada Abogados incorpora a Marina Ventaja y situa a Mariona Marin al frente de Liquidacion Societaria", 9 November 2026 (consulted on 10 November 2026).