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Compliance recruitment in Madrid

Retained search for a general counsel, chief compliance officer, or chief operating officer hiring a compliance leader in Madrid: the SEPBLAC seat, the criminal-compliance organ, and the clock after the offer.

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›Five compliance seats inside fifteen in-house searches

Compliance recruitment Madrid is a retained search for a compliance leader the company does not already employ. Sartori & Partners closed 5 Madrid compliance searches inside 15 in-house searches over three years. A counter-offer arrived on 32 percent of those 15, and offer to acceptance ran 14 working days. A payment institution in Madrid hired its SEPBLAC representative in month 5. ICAM’s 2025 census counts 44,883 practicing lawyers. SEPBLAC ran 40 risk-based inspections in 2025. The CNMV imposed fines of EUR 19.466 million in 2025.

01 — The brief answer

Two officer seats. One bar roll. One city line.

Compliance recruitment Madrid is the retained brief a general counsel, a chief compliance officer, or a chief operating officer gives when the company needs a compliance leader it does not already employ. The person is usually in post at another institution in this supervisory perimeter, bound by an employment contract, and not free to start on the day the offer is signed. The seat itself is often two seats. Law 10/2010 names a representative before SEPBLAC. Article 31 bis of the Criminal Code names an organ that supervises the crime-prevention model. A brief that treats those titles as one job is the brief that slips.

That is the work compliance recruitment is retained to do here. Sartori & Partners was founded in early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. The firm-wide compliance record is 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). The CCO clock on that book is 21 days to a shortlist and 10 weeks median to an accepted offer. The Madrid in-house line is a smaller book, kept separate below. The city hub is legal recruitment in Madrid. Pay comparisons are on the compliance, AML, in-house, and general-counsel salary pages.

Years on the Madrid in-house line

5

In-house searches closed · 3 yrs

15

Counter-offer

32%

Offer to acceptance

14days

Madrid in-house line, trailing three years. Completion on that line is 93 percent. The timeline from signed brief to accepted offer is 4 to 7 months. Of the 15, 5 were compliance and regulatory seats. The city’s one interview cohort is 250. Mapping coverage is 2,500 lawyers. Firm-wide compliance placements are 36. They are a separate book from the 15.

02 — Local demand

The supervisors sit here. The bar roll is the profession.

The Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid, in the Memoria Anual 2025 that Cinco Días reported on 10 June 2026, prints a 2025 census of 73,960 members. Of that roll, 44,883 were practicing, 61 percent, and 28,168 were non-practicing, 38 percent. The sex split of the 73,960 is 37,487 men, 51 percent, and 36,473 women, 49 percent. Incorporations were 1,868, down 6 percent. The same memoria describes a GAD3 study of in-house lawyers as close to 20 percent of the Madrid roll. That sentence is the memoria’s description of the in-house share. Open compliance seats are a different count, taken from the searches below.

SEPBLAC, the Spanish financial-intelligence unit and the supervisor of anti-money-laundering controls, sits in Madrid. Its 2025 activity report, published in 2026, records 40 risk-based inspections, up 60 percent on 2024. Twenty-six of those 40 were financial: 12 credit institutions, 2 electronic-money institutions, 4 payment institutions, 1 currency-exchange establishment, and 7 virtual-currency providers. Fourteen were non-financial: 5 law firms, 3 real-estate businesses, 2 notaries, 2 dealers in jewelry, precious metals, or art, 1 tax adviser, and 1 casino. Those 40 are the inspections that test a live prevention system. They are separate from 248 mandatory inspections SEPBLAC ran the same year for authorizations, significant holdings, and structural changes. That 248 was down 21 percent because the year included no mandatory inspections of virtual-currency providers. Staff at 31 December 2025 was 147, and 33 percent of them worked on supervision and inspection. The 147 is SEPBLAC’s own staff.

The CNMV, also seated in Madrid, opened 15 sanction files in 2025 and concluded 20. It imposed 71 fines totaling EUR 19.466 million. The 2024 column of the same summary table is EUR 12.345 million. Those fines are a national enforcement total. They describe the intensity of securities supervision. They do not describe how many compliance officers Madrid employs. From 1 July 2026, Spain’s transitional period under article 143.3 of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation ended. Only a provider authorized by the CNMV or by another EU competent authority may operate in Spain. A compliance seat hired against that date is a crypto-asset authorization brief, and it still has to name the SEPBLAC representative where Law 10/2010 makes the firm an obliged entity.

DORA, Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, has applied to in-scope financial entities since 17 January 2025. The European Supervisory Authorities’ statement JC 2024 99 records that the regulation has no transitional period. A Madrid compliance seat hired against that date is a digital-operational-resilience brief. It sits beside the anti-money-laundering representative and beside the criminal-compliance organ in article 31 bis.

The research program maps 1,480,000+ lawyers. The Madrid cut of that map is 2,500 lawyers. The city’s one interview cohort is 250 structured interviews. Of that cohort, 28 were compliance, MLRO, or financial-crime counsel, counted over the 24 months through June 2026. The 28 are a subset of the 250. They are a different count from the 15 closed searches, and from the firm-wide 41 placements.

03 — Sector mix

Banks and payment firms, the CNMV perimeter, and the criminal-law organ.

The demand splits into four employer shapes. The first is a credit institution, an electronic-money institution, or a payment institution whose Spanish compliance seat is in Madrid. Article 26 ter.1 of Law 10/2010 of 28 April requires the obliged entity to designate, as representative before SEPBLAC, a person resident in Spain who holds an administration or direction post. In a group of obliged entities the representative is unique and must hold that post at the parent. Article 26 ter.2 requires the appointment proposal, with a detailed professional history, to be sent to SEPBLAC, which may raise a reasoned objection. The representative is responsible for the reporting duties in the law and has unrestricted access to the information those duties need. A candidate whose last financial-crime role was exercised outside Spain has not, on that text, satisfied the residence limb until the contract puts the person here.

The second shape is the internal control body, and it is not the representative by another name. Article 26 ter.4 requires an adequate internal control body, responsible for applying the prevention policies, with representation of the business areas where that is the case, and with minutes of its meetings. Article 26 ter.5 requires both the representative and that body to have the material, human, and technical resources the functions need. Article 26 ter.6 requires the prevention organs to operate with functional separation from internal audit. Article 28 requires an external expert to examine those measures every year and to write the result down. A brief that hires one person and then assigns internal audit to the same desk has collided with the separation sentence. Of the 26 financial inspections inside SEPBLAC’s 40 risk-based inspections in 2025, 12 were credit institutions and 4 were payment institutions. Those inspections are the supervisor’s work. They are the reason a Madrid bank rebuilds the bench. They are not a count of Sartori searches.

The third shape is the CNMV perimeter: an investment firm, a fund manager, a listed issuer, and, from 1 July 2026, only an authorized crypto-asset service provider. The 71 fines and the EUR 19.466 million are the 2025 enforcement total for that supervisor. Market-abuse files, inside information, and the reporting of transactions sit with this seat. DORA, in force since 17 January 2025, adds a digital-resilience limb for in-scope financial entities. A fund manager’s head of compliance and a bank’s SEPBLAC representative can be the same human being only when the brief has tested both statutes. The default is that they are different scorecards.

The fourth shape is the company that is not a bank and still wants the criminal-law defense. Article 31 bis.2.2 of the Criminal Code requires that supervision of the prevention model be entrusted to an organ of the legal person with autonomous powers of initiative and control, or to the organ legally charged with supervising the effectiveness of internal controls. Article 31 bis.3 lets the board itself perform that supervision when the company is of small size, meaning it is authorized to file an abbreviated profit-and-loss account. An IBEX-scale energy, infrastructure, or industrial group headquartered in Madrid is outside that small-company sentence. Its supervision organ is a named appointment, with powers the statute describes as autonomous. SEPBLAC’s 14 non-financial inspections in 2025, including 5 law firms, show that the obliged-entity perimeter also reaches professional firms. A law-firm compliance seat and a bank representative are different briefs. Of the 15 closed Madrid in-house searches over three years, 5 were compliance and regulatory seats. Of those 5, 3 were representative-before-SEPBLAC seats at a credit institution or a payment institution, 1 was compliance counsel at a CNMV-supervised fund manager, and 1 was a combined seat. That is the whole compliance slice of the 15.

Of the 28 compliance, MLRO, or financial-crime counsel inside the cohort of 250, 16 said they would not take a seat that combined the SEPBLAC representative and the article 31 bis supervision organ. The 16 are a subset of the 28, and the 28 are a subset of the 250. A combined brief hears that answer before the scorecard is locked. The scorecard in week one, before any name is discussed, is short.

  • Which officer. Article 26 ter representative before SEPBLAC, article 31 bis supervision organ, or both, with the internal control body and the annual external expert named where Law 10/2010 requires them.
  • Where the person lives. Article 26 ter.1 requires the representative to reside in Spain. A group role exercised abroad does not meet that sentence.
  • Who must be told. Article 26 ter.2: SEPBLAC receives the appointment proposal, with the professional history, and may object. The board resolution has to name the person as representative.
  • Which separation. Article 26 ter.6: prevention organs operate with functional separation from internal audit. Article 31 bis.3: only a small company may leave the criminal-law supervision on the board itself.
  • Which supervisor is actually on the file. SEPBLAC’s 40 risk-based inspections in 2025 are not the CNMV’s 71 fines, and neither number is a Madrid headcount of compliance officers.

04 — Timeline

Acceptance ends the search. The SEPBLAC notice opens the next morning.

Sartori has worked the Madrid in-house line for 5 years. Over the trailing three years that line closed 15 searches, at 93 percent completion. The timeline from signed brief to accepted offer on that line is 4 to 7 months. From written offer to acceptance, those 15 files ran 14 working days. A counter-offer arrived on 32 percent of them. The 14 days are the offer step. They sit inside the 4 to 7 months. The article 26 ter.2 notice needs a named person and a board resolution, and it goes to SEPBLAC after acceptance.

The firm-wide CCO clock is a different book. Across 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, the shortlist arrives in 21 days and the accepted offer in a median of 10 weeks. Ten weeks is shorter than the Madrid in-house band of 4 to 7 months. A Madrid file budgeted at 10 weeks is budgeted on the firm-wide CCO median. The 36 are a separate count from the 15. Offer acceptance on corporate mandates is 96 percent. Retention of placed in-house leaders is 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. The replacement term on a retained CCO search is 12 months. Off-limits on the client’s legal and compliance department run 24 months.

Article 26 ter.2 is the filing that starts after the contract exists. The appointment proposal goes to SEPBLAC with a description of the person’s career, and SEPBLAC may object. The representative’s residence has to be in Spain. A Madrid offer that assumes the last employer’s title travels with the person is assuming an appointment the statute ties to this entity and this board resolution. The ICAM roll of 44,883 practicing lawyers is the profession that can hold an abogado title. Where the new employer is an obliged entity, article 26 ter.2 requires a fresh appointment proposal for that entity.

Of the 5 compliance and regulatory seats inside the 15, 1 ran past the 4 to 7 months band. That 1 is inside the 5, and the 5 are inside the 15. It closed. It closed late, in month 9. The miss was a brief that had named one officer for two statutes. The other files in the 5 closed inside 4 to 7 months.

Clock Base Figure
In-house searches closed Madrid in-house line, three years 15
Compliance and regulatory seats Inside those 15 5
Brief to accepted offer That in-house line 4 to 7 months
Written offer to acceptance Those 15 files 14 working days
Counter-offer Share of those 15 32 percent
Firm-wide CCO median 36 compliance placements since 2017 21 days to shortlist, 10 weeks to offer
SEPBLAC appointment notice Law 10/2010, article 26 ter.2 Appointment proposal, with career history, sent to SEPBLAC
Representative’s residence Law 10/2010, article 26 ter.1 In Spain

The 14 working days and the 4 to 7 months are the search. The board resolution and the article 26 ter.2 filing start after acceptance. The payment-institution hire is one of the 3 representative seats. It is separate from the 1 file that ran past seven months. The shortlist on the payment-institution file was in week 4. The accepted offer was in month 5, inside the 4 to 7 months. The general counsel later said: The dossier named the inspections the candidate had sat. We kept the SEPBLAC representative separate from the criminal-compliance organ.

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05 — Compensation

The published firm mean is not a Madrid CCO band.

El Confidencial, on 28 July 2026, read the 2025 sustainability reports of Garrigues, Uría Menéndez, Cuatrecasas, Pérez-Llorca, and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. Average billings rose 5.68 percent, and the five firms together billed more than EUR 1,570 million. Average pay on those reports rose 2.49 percent: 2.84 percent for men and 2.11 percent for women. The published cells start above EUR 40,000 and exceed EUR 240,000 in the highest published cell. Pérez-Llorca’s grouped cell for alta dirección, counsel, and of counsel reached EUR 245,934 for men, up 11.93 percent, and EUR 212,336 for women, up 7.58 percent. The article records that Pérez-Llorca’s group figure includes its international offices, including the Colombia arrival that lifted 2025 billings. None of those cells is a Madrid chief compliance officer band, and none is limited to lawyers resident in Madrid. A company that prices a Madrid SEPBLAC representative at EUR 245,934 because that is the Pérez-Llorca cell is pricing a grouped counsel mean at a multi-office firm.

The pages that carry the comparison, without inventing a euro for this seat, are compliance officer salary, 2026, AML compliance officer salary, 2026, sanctions compliance officer salary, 2026, in-house counsel salary in Madrid, 2026, general counsel salary in Madrid, 2026, and lawyer salary in Spain, 2026. The compliance and AML pages are role comparisons. The Madrid pages are the city payroll. Associate cash the candidate can refuse to leave is on the Madrid legal market, 2026. Those pages are the comparison set. The underwriting question on a compliance mandate is which officer the statute requires, and which package the employer will actually put in the contract that the SEPBLAC filing describes, not which firm mean the newspaper printed.

The retained fee is a percentage of the compensation the company actually agrees. The fee is 25–30 percent of the hire’s total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of that fee is paid as a retainer when the search is engaged, and the retainer is kept if the client cancels. The search is retained only. A brief that later splits one combined seat into two hires changes the compensation the percentage applies to. It does not change the percentage. The fee letter states that before anyone is called. On the 15, the 14 working days are planned for the counter-offer that arrived on 32 percent of the files.

06 — How a search runs

Six steps. The Madrid work is the officer and the statute.

  1. 01 — BriefMandate, success profile and conflicts frame agreed in writing.
  2. 02 — Market mapThe live universe mapped from our coverage, not whoever is in motion.
  3. 03 — ApproachConfidential, principal-led conversations with the mapped shortlist.
  4. 04 — ShortlistUnderwritten candidates presented with evidence, not CVs.
  5. 05 — OfferPackage design, references and counter-offer defence.
  6. 06 — CloseResignation, notice and the first hundred days, managed.

The brief names which officer is being hired, which statute requires that officer, and whether the board has already resolved to send the article 26 ter.2 proposal to SEPBLAC. It names whether the representative will reside in Spain. It names whether the article 31 bis organ is the same person, a different person, or, for a company authorized to file an abbreviated profit-and-loss account, the board itself. It names the internal control body and the annual external expert where Law 10/2010 requires them, and it names the functional separation from internal audit. Conflicts are checked before outreach. The approach stays blind until both sides want a conversation. The shortlist is set against that scorecard, not against whoever has told the market they are movable.

On the 5 compliance and regulatory seats inside the 15, the offer is built inside the 4 to 7 months, except for the 1 combined brief that closed in month 9. The 14 working days are planned for the counter-offer on 32 percent of the in-house line. Mapping uses the research program’s map of 1,480,000+ lawyers, cut to the 2,500 mapped in Madrid. The interview work uses the 250 interviews in the city cohort. The 28 compliance counsel inside that cohort are the slice this desk draws on. They are interview records.

07 — Two files

One SEPBLAC hire inside the band. One combined seat that missed it.

Both files are inside the 5, and the 5 are inside the 15. The payment-institution hire is one of the 3 representative seats. The second file is the 1 that ran past seven months.

MADRID × COMPLIANCE 2 FILES · ANONYMISED

Representative before SEPBLAC, payment institution

Madrid · one of 5 · one of 3

Mandate
A payment institution in Madrid needed a representative before SEPBLAC who would reside in Spain, separate from the article 31 bis supervision organ.
Complication
The preferred candidate’s last financial-crime role had been exercised outside Spain. Article 26 ter.1 did not treat that as the required residence.
Outcome
Shortlist in week 4. Accepted offer in month 5, inside 4 to 7 months. The contract put the representative’s residence in Madrid.

Combined representative and criminal-compliance seat, recut

Madrid · one of 5 · the 1 past seven months

Mandate
A Madrid bank asked for one officer to be both the representative before SEPBLAC and the article 31 bis supervision organ.
Complication
Article 26 ter.1 required Spanish residence and a direction post. Article 31 bis.2.2 required autonomous powers. In the interview cohort, 16 counsel had already said they would not take a combined seat.
Outcome
The brief was recut to the SEPBLAC representative alone. It closed in month 9, past 4 to 7 months.

08 — Sources

What each figure is allowed to prove.

›10 sources
  1. 1 Sartori & Partners — firm record Founded early 2017 by Lorenzo Sartori. Market map of 1,480,000+ lawyers. 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), of which 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements. CCO shortlist 21 days. CCO median 10 weeks to an accepted offer. Acceptance 96 percent. Retention 97 percent at 12 months and 91 percent at 24 months. Replacement 12 months on a retained CCO search. Off-limits 24 months. Retained only. Fee 25–30 percent of first-year total compensation. Retainer 30 percent of the fee, kept if the client cancels.
  2. 2 Sartori & Partners — Madrid in-house line Madrid in-house line: 5 years, 15 closed in-house searches over three years, 32 percent counter-offer, 14 working days from written offer to acceptance, 93 percent completion, timeline 4 to 7 months. City cohort of 250 structured interviews. Mapping of 2,500 lawyers. Of the 15, 5 were compliance and regulatory seats.
  3. 3 ICAM — Memoria Anual 2025 ICAM en 50 cifras 2025: roll 73,960. Practicing 44,883 (61 percent). Non-practicing 28,168 (38 percent). Women 36,473 (49 percent). Men 37,487 (51 percent). Incorporations 1,868, down 6 percent. The memoria describes a GAD3 study of in-house lawyers as close to 20 percent of the Madrid roll. Cinco Días reported the memoria on 10 June 2026: https://cincodias.elpais.com/legal/2026-06-10/el-icam-refuerza-su-papel-institucional-y-amplia-servicios-en-un-ano-clave-para-la-abogacia-madrilena.html
  4. 4 SEPBLAC — Memoria de actividades 2025 40 risk-based inspections in 2025, up 60 percent on 2024. Of those 40: 26 financial (12 credit institutions, 2 electronic-money institutions, 4 payment institutions, 1 currency-exchange establishment, 7 virtual-currency providers) and 14 non-financial (5 law firms, 3 real-estate, 2 notaries, 2 dealers in jewelry, precious metals, or art, 1 tax adviser, 1 casino). Separately, 248 mandatory inspections for authorization, significant holdings, and structural changes, down 21 percent because that year had no mandatory inspections of virtual-currency providers. Staff 147 at 31 December 2025, of whom 33 percent worked on supervision and inspection. SEPBLAC sits in Madrid.
  5. 5 CNMV — Resumen del Informe Anual 2025 Sanction files opened: 15 in 2025, 25 in 2024. Files concluded: 20 in 2025, 19 in 2024. Fines: 71 in 2025, totaling EUR 19.466 million (table unit: thousands of euros, 19.466). The 2024 column of the same table is EUR 12.345 million. The CNMV sits in Madrid. Press note of the same report: https://www.cnmv.es/webservices/verdocumento/ver?t=%7B77d3ceb2-e283-4811-a161-1c31d620ddb2%7D
  6. 6 CNMV — MiCA transitional period in Spain Article 143.3 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. Spain’s transitional period ended on 1 July 2026. From that date only providers authorized by the CNMV or another EU competent authority may operate in Spain. FAQ: https://www.cnmv.es/docportal/Legislacion/FAQ/FAQ_MICA.pdf
  7. 7 DORA — application 17 January 2025 European Supervisory Authorities public statement JC 2024 99: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 applies from 17 January 2025, with no transitional period.
  8. 8 Law 10/2010 — article 26 ter and article 28 Article 26 ter.1: the representative before SEPBLAC resides in Spain and holds an administration or direction post. In a group of obliged entities the representative is unique and sits at the parent. Article 26 ter.2: the appointment proposal, with a professional history, is sent to SEPBLAC, which may object. Article 26 ter.4: an internal control body applies the prevention policies. Article 26 ter.5: the representative and that body must have the material, human, and technical resources the role needs. Article 26 ter.6: prevention organs operate with functional separation from internal audit. Article 28: an external expert examines the internal-control measures annually.
  9. 9 Criminal Code — article 31 bis Article 31 bis.2.2, in the wording from Organic Law 1/2015: supervision of the prevention model is entrusted to an organ of the legal person with autonomous powers of initiative and control, or to the organ legally charged with supervising internal controls. Article 31 bis.3: in legal persons of small size, those authorized to file an abbreviated profit-and-loss account, the board may itself perform that supervision.
  10. 10 El Confidencial — firm pay, 28 July 2026 2025 sustainability reports of Garrigues, Uría Menéndez, Cuatrecasas, Pérez-Llorca, and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. Average billing rise 5.68 percent. Combined billings above EUR 1,570 million. Average pay rise 2.49 percent (2.84 percent for men, 2.11 percent for women). Published cells start above EUR 40,000 and exceed EUR 240,000 in the highest cell. Pérez-Llorca alta dirección, counsel, and of counsel: men EUR 245,934, up 11.93 percent; women EUR 212,336, up 7.58 percent. The Pérez-Llorca group figure includes international offices. Not a Madrid CCO band.

09 — Questions

Compliance recruitment in Madrid

What is compliance recruitment Madrid hired to do?

A general counsel, a chief compliance officer, or a chief operating officer hires compliance recruitment Madrid when the company needs a compliance leader it does not already employ. A posting reaches people who are looking. A retained search approaches officers who are in post. Sartori & Partners has completed 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017, inside 400+ placements (230+ in-house). The CCO clock on that firm-wide book is 21 days to a shortlist and 10 weeks median to an accepted offer. The Madrid in-house line, which this desk shares, closed 15 searches over three years, of which 5 were compliance and regulatory seats. The city hub is legal recruitment in Madrid. The practice is compliance recruitment.

Which Madrid employers actually hire a compliance leader?

Four shapes, and they are different seats. A credit institution or a payment institution needs the representative before SEPBLAC in article 26 ter of Law 10/2010: a person resident in Spain who holds an administration or direction post. A listed issuer, a fund manager, or a crypto-asset service provider sits in the CNMV perimeter. The CNMV’s 2025 annual-report summary records 15 sanction files opened, 20 closed, and 71 fines totaling EUR 19.466 million. Spain’s MiCA transitional period ended on 1 July 2026, so an unauthorized provider may no longer operate. A company that wants the criminal-law defense in article 31 bis of the Criminal Code needs a supervision organ with autonomous powers of initiative and control. That organ is a different appointment from the SEPBLAC representative. Of 15 closed Madrid in-house searches over three years, 5 were compliance and regulatory seats.

How long does a Madrid compliance search take?

The Madrid in-house line runs 4 to 7 months from signed brief to accepted offer, on 15 closed searches over three years, at 93 percent completion. Written offer to acceptance on those 15 ran 14 working days. A counter-offer arrived on 32 percent. The firm-wide CCO median is 10 weeks, on 36 compliance and regulatory leadership placements since 2017. Ten weeks is a shorter clock than 4 to 7 months. A payment institution in Madrid hired its SEPBLAC representative in month 5. 1 of the 5 compliance and regulatory seats ran past 4 to 7 months because the brief had combined the SEPBLAC representative and the article 31 bis organ. The board resolution that names the representative, and the notice to SEPBLAC under article 26 ter.2, run after acceptance. The fee is 25–30 percent of total first-year compensation. Thirty percent of the fee is the retainer at engagement, and it is kept if the search is canceled.

What does compliance recruitment in Madrid pay against?

There is no published Madrid chief compliance officer band. El Confidencial, on 28 July 2026, reading the 2025 sustainability reports of Garrigues, Uría Menéndez, Cuatrecasas, Pérez-Llorca, and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, put the average billing rise at 5.68 percent and combined billings above EUR 1,570 million. Average pay on those reports rose 2.49 percent. The published cells start above EUR 40,000 and exceed EUR 240,000 in the highest published cell. Pérez-Llorca’s grouped alta dirección, counsel, and of counsel cell was EUR 245,934 for men and EUR 212,336 for women. That cell includes the firm’s international offices. It is an employed-lawyer mean, and it is not a Madrid compliance-officer band. The comparison pages are compliance officer salary, 2026, AML compliance officer salary, 2026, in-house counsel salary in Madrid, 2026, and general counsel salary in Madrid, 2026.

Can one person be both the SEPBLAC representative and the criminal-compliance organ?

The statutes do not make them the same job. Article 26 ter.1 of Law 10/2010 requires the representative before SEPBLAC to reside in Spain and to hold an administration or direction post. Article 26 ter.6 requires the prevention organs to operate with functional separation from internal audit. Article 31 bis.2.2 of the Criminal Code, in the text introduced by Organic Law 1/2015, requires supervision of the crime-prevention model by an organ with autonomous powers of initiative and control. Of 28 compliance, MLRO, or financial-crime counsel inside the Madrid interview cohort of 250, 16 said they would not take a seat that combined the two. 1 of 5 closed compliance and regulatory searches ran past 4 to 7 months on a combined brief and closed in month 9.

Where does a Madrid compliance hire sit next to the rest of the legal search?

The officer mandate, when the seat is the chief compliance officer, is a chief compliance officer search. Financial-crime seats are on sanctions and AML recruitment. The wider company legal department is in-house counsel recruiting. The city note is the Madrid legal market, 2026. The city hub is legal recruitment in Madrid. The research map behind the work is 1,480,000+ lawyers, cut to 2,500 mapped in Madrid.

10 — Related

City hub, the practice, and the pay pages.

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Brief the officer, the statute, and the notice.

Compliance leader, SEPBLAC representative, or the counsel who will report to one. Retained, confidential, and scoped before anyone is called.

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