Avocats – Spain

Pedro Suárez

managing partner

Regula

Pedro de Rojas

Mr. de Rojas leverages his deep knowledge of the restructuring process and a sophisticated understanding of an evolving insolvency landscape to guide multinationals, investors, and financial institutions on: Designing restructuring solutions, including converting debt into equity or equity-like instruments Implementing restructuring plans using the most efficient legal regimes Liaising with stakeholders across the capital structure He approaches complex transactions with a strategic, commercial mindset and unlocks Latham’s global platform to devise bespoke client solutions. A recognized thought leader, Mr. de Rojas regularly speaks on insolvency topics at industry events, including for INSOL. He is also a visiting professor at Instituto de Empresa (IE) and Universidad Cardenal Cisneros. Before joining Latham, Mr. de Rojas spent 20 years working as a banking and restructuring lawyer at the Spanish office of a Magic Circle law firm.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Pelayo Puente

Pelayo advises international and national clients on a wide range of areas, including copyright advisory in contractual and litigious matters, negotiation of license agreements with a wide variety of collecting societies, development and production aspects of audiovisual projects, public policy, media regulatory and platform liability matters, the launch of new services and platform sections, image and publicity rights. He also advises international companies on text and data mining and the development and implementation of AI systems from a copyright and neighboring rights perspective. Pelayo combines a solid knowledge of his area of practice with a keen eye for risk assessment. His autonomy and good judgment has allowed him to work independently on a regular basis, including time as a secondee for a major OTT platform.

Baker McKenzie

Pere Kirchner

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Pere Pons

Partner

Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

Pilar Baltar

Partner since 2025

RocaJunyent

Pilar Carrasco

Senior Associate, Madrid

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Pilar Coloma Bellver

Partner of the Real Estate Department.

Ceca Magán Abogados

Pilar Lluesma

Counsel / Head of Finance Regulatory

Ashurst LLP

Pilar Menor

DLA Piper

Pilar París

Pilar París, Partner of the Corporate/M&A Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2024, has more than 15 years of experience advising all types of industrial, financial and family group clients in M&A national and cross-border transactions, in an array of different sectors, being also specialised in investments under the venture-capital framework. She also has extensive experience in acquisitions or sales of real estate assets, leading the negotiation of all types of contracts and the global coordination in multiple jurisdictions, including the sale or acquisition of assets related to both greenfield and brownfield renewable projects. Throughout her professional career, he has also accumulated extensive experience advising all types of financing, refinancing and financial restructurings, both bilateral and syndicated, in its various forms of Corporate Finance, Asset Finance, Project Finance or Real-Estate Finance.

Araoz & Rueda

Pilar Sánchez-Bleda

Legal Partner

Auren

Pilar Vacas

Partner since 2023

RocaJunyent

Puy Abril

Puy Abril has more than 17 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has balanced her role as a researcher and a lecturer with her role as a labour law adviser for companies. Her role as a consultant has allowed her to learn first-hand on the problems that arise out of employment legislation and to offer suitable solutions by thoroughly analysing each of the cases presented to her. PhD in Labour Law and Social Security Law (Summa Cum Laude/Premio Extraordinario). Her main area of expertise within the field of labour legislation focuses on Collective cases, Equality, Diversity and Work-Family Life Balance: design, negotiation, and implementation of equality plans and work-family life balance policies. In the last year, she has advised several important Spanish companies in the implementation of their equality plans.

LABORMATTERS ABOGADOS

Rafael Aguilera

Partner. Head of Banking & Finance.

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Rafael Ariño Sánchez

Partner and Lawyer in the Public Law and Regulatory Department.

Ceca Magán Abogados

Rafael Baena

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Rafael Bazán

Partner in the Banking & Finance Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2017. Rafael has extensive experience in all kinds of national and cross-border transactions involving corporate finance, acquisition finance, asset finance and restructuring of companies in crisis, advising both banks and affected companies in all sectors, with a special focus on the real estate, financial and industrial sectors. In the last five years he has advised both selling banks and investors in transactions involving the acquisition of many of the most significant non-performing loan and asset portfolios in the market. He also has extensive experience in regulatory issues involving supervisory authorities.

Araoz & Rueda

Rafael Fernández

Rafael Fernández is a partner of Pérez-Llorca’s Insurance and Reinsurance practice area. Prior to this, Rafael worked in the Insurance and Reinsurance areas in two highly prestigious international firms.

Pérez-Llorca

Rafael Garcia Del Poyo

Please see full biography at: http://www.osborneclarke.com/lawyers/garcia-del-poyo-rafael/

Osborne Clarke

Rafael García LLaneza

Uría Menéndez

Rafael Maldonado

DLA Piper

Rafael Marco

Partner.

Ramón y Cajal Abogados

Rafael Mateu de Ros

Partner

Ramón y Cajal Abogados