Avocats – Spain

César Albiñana

Managing Partner of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo

CMS

César Herrero

DLA Piper

César Morales Romero-Requejo

Partner and responsible for the Real Estate departmment.

Andersen in Spain

César Navarro

Partner

CMS

César Rivera

Partner

Cuatrecasas

César Salagaray

DLA Piper

César Álvarez Rodríguez

Partner and expert lawyer in the Commercial and M&A Department.

Ceca Magán Abogados

Damián Gaubeka

Partner

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Daniel Cifuentes

Daniel Cifuentes specialises in collective dismissals, industrial conflicts, business litigation and pre-litigation counselling. He has a wealth of experience in senior management matters and judicial proceedings before labour and administrative courts.

Pérez-Llorca

Daniel Jiménez

SLJ Abogados

Daniel Refoyo

Daniel is a Senior Associate in the Madrid Assets and Structured Finance Group. He advises a wide range of clients, including arrangers, lenders and other financial/lending institutions, shipowners, aircraft and rail lessors in asset-based finance structures, particularly within the maritime, aviation and rail sectors. A significant portion of the transactions include a cross-border/international element. His work covers all steps of the projects, including drafting, negotiating and implementing contracts and tax-based structures with a focus on the Spanish tax lease scheme and subsidy structures as well as syndicated financing (involving export credit agencies), ship and aircraft registration and corporate-related matters. Most recently he also advised clients from an insolvency standpoint.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Daniel Rodríguez Ruiz de Villa

Counsel

ONTIER

Daniel Sáez

Legal Partner

Auren

Darya Budova

Uría Menéndez

David Diaz

David Díaz is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s since 2004 and heads both the Employment & Compensation and Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid. He has significant experience litigating in labor courts and negotiations with unions. He is recognized in the field of employment law by Chambers Europe and Legal 500. In addition to his practice, Mr. Díaz regularly collaborates with economic newspapers, has co-authored several leading reference books on employment and is a regular speaker in industrial relations courses. As head of the Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid, holds extensive experience this area particularly in the football industry. Specifically he regularly advice professional athletes and clubs in all the matters related to negotiation of contracts and transfers and its compensation schemes. David also has wide experience in assisting foreign investors with interest in the European football industry. Mr. Díaz advises domestic and multinational companies on a broad range of labor and employment matters, with particular emphasis on union-related negotiations on a variety of issues including layoffs and relocations, collective bargaining agreements and equality plans. He is seasoned in major reorganization and restructuring processes, and has extensive experience advising on and litigating occupational and health safety issues and social security and pension liability matters, focusing on areas such as labour and employment benefit specialties, collective agreement negotiations, collective dismissals, major reorganizations and negotiations with works councils, trade unions, and public authorities, employment litigation, employment contracts, compliance, human resources, labour reorganizations and industrial disputes. He also has great experience on social security, local, national and European works councils, trade union recognition procedures and elections, employee's compensation, executive compensation, executive terminations, employment taxation, pensions, executive transfers, discrimination and privacy issues. Mr.Diaz has extensive experience in sports law and in particular in the soccer industry. In particular, he regularly advises Spanish and foreign clubs on the legal aspects of their operations, both in sports matters and in the day-to-day management of such organizations. Likewise, David regularly advises agents and intermediaries, both national and international, in all matters related to contracting, modification and termination of contractual relationships, providing advice on all legal aspects related to the transfer of sports players, agents and intermediaries, both national and international. He also has extensive experience in advising foreign investors with a potential interest in the European soccer industry on M&A transactions. He regularly participates in the Sports Law Forum organized by Fundación LaLiga, in the permanent seminar organized by the Association of Football Players organized by the Spanish Footballers Association (AFE) and ISDE and in other forums of debate and legal analysis such as FIDE. He is also a professor in the Master in Law applied to Football at LaLiga Business School, in the Master in Sports Law at UNIR and in the Master in Sports Law at UNIR.

Baker McKenzie

David González

Partner.

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

David López

Uría Menéndez

David Navarro

Partner.

Cases Lacambra

David Sanz Pérez

Partner

Garrigues

David Vilches

Uría Menéndez

Demetrio Madrid Alonso

Founding partner

MA Abogados

Diana Linage

Counsel.

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Diana Rivera

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Diana Sendagorta

Diana is a Consultant in Bird & Bird's Madrid office in the Corporate and M&A department. She has extensive experience in M&A (private equity, corporate venture, venture capital and direct industrial acquisitions), Finance Law, Capital Markets and Real Estate. Her experience includes advising on M&A transactions in the Retail & Consumer, Information Technology, and Life Sciences sectors, as well as on Real Estate deals. Diana also advises our institutional and industrial clients on complex Spanish and cross-border transactions, including corporate and debt restructuring, financing transactions (with or without guarantees), joint ventures, investment and shareholder agreements, corporate secretarial and complex commercial matters. Her background and experience in corporate, financial and commercial matters enables Diana to offer our clients strong and efficient technical advice. Her main objective is to add value to every piece of advice that our clients need. She strives every day to achieve technical excellence, to provide practical solutions, and to make our clients feel that they can rely on us at any time, with any legal matter they may have, by being pro-active and proposing solutions in advance.

Bird & Bird