Lawyers in Spain

Francisco Palá

Managing Partner.

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro specialises in all aspects of debt and equity Capital Markets, representing both issuers and placement entities in both domestic and cross-border transactions, including notes issuances, IPOs, ABOs, rights issuances, secondary offerings and block trades, convertible and exchangeable bonds, debt programmes, regulatory capital, covered bonds and hybrid instruments. Francisco is also a member of the Fintech team of the Madrid office.

Clifford Chance

Francisco Ramírez Arbués

Leading partner of the Financial Regulation group of Deloitte Legal and head of its FinTech practice.

Deloitte Abogados

Francisco San Miguel

Uría Menéndez

Francisco Solchaga

Partner in the Energy Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2007. Francisco is specialized in energy, advising on numerous projects relating to the promotion and financing of wind and solar plants. He has also extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and securities markets.

Araoz & Rueda

Francisco de León

Francisco is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice of our Madrid office, with extensive experience in M&A and general company law matters. In particular, Francisco has vast knowledge of M&A transactions in the insurance, financial services, collective investment, securitisation funds and pension funds management sectors, having participated, throughout his 25 years of experience, in numerous transactions of acquisition and sale of insurance companies, insurance portfolios and other regulated financial entities, with a particular focus on bancassurance alliances between Spanish credit institutions and foreign and Spanish insurance groups. He has also participated in complex reinsurance operations of great economic significance, such as reinsurance of large life risk insurance portfolios for the monetization of their value (VIF monetization reinsurance). Francisco also regularly advises various entities in the insurance and financial sectors on matters relating to insurance regulation (in particular Solvency II, insurance distribution EU and national rules and insurance contract law), pension plans and pension funds, right of establishment and freedom of services regime for insurance companies and intermediaries, financial services customer protection and the mortgage market. Throughout his career he has published several articles in specialized journals and participated in collective works on insurance supervision regulations, distribution, pension plans and funds and general commercial law.

Simmons & Simmons

Fátima Mallén

Hogan Lovells Spain

Fátima Rico-Villademoros

DLA Piper

Félix J Montero

Félix J. Montero provides expert advice on civil and commercial litigation, and domestic and international arbitration in different sectors: engineering, construction, energy, insurance and automotive.

Pérez-Llorca

Félix Plasencia

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Gabriel Bottini

Uría Menéndez

Gabriel Cabello

Gabriel Cabello is a partner in the Global Real Estate team. Gabriel Cabello specialises in strategic real estate transactions, including the investment and divestment of real estate assets and companies, sale and lease-back transactions, leasing agreements, and construction contracts. He also regularly advises major international real estate funds on various issues such as non-performing loans (NPLs), and drafting and negotiation of servicing agreements for both types of assets.

Clifford Chance

Gabriel Nadal Vallvé

Partner and expert lawyer in Commercial Law and M&A.

Ceca Magán Abogados

Gabriel Núñez Fernández

Uría Menéndez

Gemma Colomer

Senior Associate

Cuatrecasas

Gemma Segura

Partner

Pareja i Associats, Advocats

Gerard Correig

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Gerard Pérez

Partner

RocaJunyent

Gerard Serra

Gerard joined Pérez-Llorca in 1995 and is currently head of our Barcelona office.

Pérez-Llorca

Gianfranco Lotito

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Gloria Marin

Uría Menéndez

Glòria Raich de Castro

Partner.

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Gonzalo Aranzabal

Gonzalo is a Partner in the Madrid Corporate group. With over 30 years of corporate and M&A legal practice, he advises on mergers and acquisitions and corporate and commercial law, counselling on national and international M&As and other commercial transactions within the industrial and service sectors in general and, in particular, the energy sector. He also has a strong insolvency and commercial dispute resolution practice. He has acted as a court appointed insolvency receiver (administrador concursal) in more than 25 insolvency proceedings, as well as legal counsel in more than 100 proceedings before the civil, commercial and arbitration courts.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Gonzalo Ardila

Gonzalo Ardila is the head of the Litigation and Arbitration practice of the Madrid office. Gonzalo has extensive experience in commercial litigation and domestic and international arbitration, representing clients from the energy, infrastructure and retail sectors. He is also particularly active in the insurance sector.

Hogan Lovells Spain