Find Lawyers in Barcelona, Spain for Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Practice Area Overview
However, in company law, unlike other specialist fields, the advisory (defence) function in the case of conflict often does not depend upon whether the preventative function has been properly performed, but instead upon tensions arising within companies between majority shareholders attempting to impose a resolution and dissatisfied minority shareholders, who then seek protection of their rights.
Mergers and Acquisitions (“M&A”) are one result of the trend toward the globalisation and concentration of businesses to boost their strength and competitiveness, a trend that also has a knock-on negative effect on the ability to continue to guarantee a free, healthy, and properly competitive market. Regulatory bodies must be increasingly aware of market distortions, as mergers and acquisitions are occurring between ever-larger undertakings and creating even bigger end combinations, something that makes it even harder for remaining competitors to survive. And there is no sign of this trend abating.
Although closely associated with company law with regards to its implementation aspects (given that the requirements for the calling of Board and Shareholders’ General Meetings and their holding, as well as the adoption of the relevant resolutions), specialising in M&A requires the prior management and coordination of an entire range of other specialist fields to verify the status of different aspects of the undertaking to be acquired and to establish whether things really are as they are presented, whether there are lurking dangers or hidden problems, whether the operation is suitable and/or viable, etc. This process is commonly called “due diligence”.
Checks will be carried out on aspects ranging from human resources, environmental matters, contractual relations, quality standards, planning issues, and activity permits for the undertakings to be merged or acquired. To do this, there are now sophisticated programs that create a virtual data room in the cloud, accessible to both those who upload information and those whose job it is to check it, each with the permission levels required to access the different areas of the data room, which speeds up the data processing and decision making processes.
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Xavier Amat Badrinas xab@avqlegal.com Partner responsible for the Corporate Department Education: He has a degree in Law (1984) from the Institute of University Studies (IEC in Barcelona) and the Spanish Open University (UNED in Madrid). He has also taken postgraduate courses in Community Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law and Accounting. Professional experience and expertise: Xavier is a co-founding partner of the firm, head of the Business department, and his activity is focused on commercial la...
He joined the Commercial Area of Crowe Legal y Tributario in 2022 as Partner of the Corporate-Transactions Area of the Barcelona office.He is specialized in advising and executing M&A transactions, corporate restructurings, as well as national and international commercial contracts, leading the internationalization projects of national and foreign business groups. He has extensive experience in corporate law, commercial contracts and real estate law.He also has extensive experience in pre...
Joaquim Bisbal is a professor of commercial law at Barcelona University. Professor Bisbal was awarded his PhD in Law from Bolonia University. He was a visiting researcher at Yale Law School (USA), head of commercial law at Barcelona University and one of the founders of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He specialises in company law, insolvency law and securities market law, and he has published widely in these areas. He is a member of the Editorial Board of two journals, Revista de Der...
Practice Areas Corporate. Juan José has extensive experience in Corporate and Finance Law, especially in transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, business and business group restructurings, project finance, corporate law, commercial contracts, private equity and capital markets. Career Juan José joined Pérez-Llorca in 2016. Professional Memberships The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) Education Executive Master’s degree in Corporate Finance & Law (ESADE ...
Jordi Casas is a partner at Osborne Clarke. He advises on M&A, joint ventures, private equity, venture capital and corporate law matters, including Spanish and cross-border transactions. Having been educated at the University of Barcelona, Jordi graduated with a law degree in 1992 and he also studied in the USA (AFS scholarship, Springbrook High School, 1987), France (Erasmus scholarhip, Université de Poitiers, 1991) and Belgium (Patronat Català Pro Europa’s scholarshi...
Miguel Cases is the co-managing partner of Cases&Lacambra. He leads Banking & Finance Group of the Firm and is qualified to practice both in Spain and the Principality of Andorra. He has extensive experience advising credit institutions and investment services firms, acting regularly as the key legal counsel for major national and international financial institutions, public administrations and both public and private investment funds in the structuring of financial transactions, deri...
Practice Areas Fernando has defended the interests of his clients in commercial, corporate and insolvency-related legal proceedings. In particular, he has advised on litigation concerning directors’ liability, challenging corporate resolutions, corporate transactions, structural modifications, commercial contracts, and all issues arising in insolvency proceedings. He provides specialised legal advice on commercial law, corporate law and insolvency law, by resolving queries and drafting ...
Enzo Colarossi is member of the Corporate Department and Coordinator of the Italian Desk at Escura. He is specialized in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, national and international commercial contracts. Admitted to the Bar in Italy and Spain. He is member of the Barcelona Bar Association. Professor of Corporate Law at ESADE.
Olga joined the Mercantile Department at Crowe Legal y Tributario in 2003 and she is currently Partner of the Corporate Dept. in Barcelona as well as coordinator and Managing Partner of the aforementioned department. Expertise in advisory services and operational compliance in Corporate Restructuring and M&A, including commercial contracting, both domestic and international, as well as projects of internationalization of Business Groups. Extensive experience in Corporate Law and Real Esta...
Practice areas: Corporate/M&A, Private Equity José María de Paz specialises in M&A for listed and unlisted companies, joint ventures and the development of projects for utilities (water, waste, telecoms and energy) both in Spain and abroad. José María joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2015. Previously he held the position of legal director at Agbar for nine years. Law degree (1991) and Doctorate in Law (1998), Universidad de Zaragoza. LL.M. (Harvard ...
Practice Areas Litigation. Maria boasts extensive experience in civil and commercial litigation, including proceedings in corporate matters, obligations and contracts, civil liability and unfair competition. She has also participated as counsel and assistant to the arbitral tribunal in various national and international arbitration proceedings. Career She joined Pérez-Llorca in 2022 as Of Counsel. Bar Admissions The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB). Education Bachelor’s and Maste...
Practice Areas Corporate/M&A. Specialises in M&A, private equity and financing transactions for both Spanish and international companies. Marcel Enrich joined Pérez-Llorca in 2020. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner in the Barcelona office of an international law firm. With more than 20 years of experience in the sector, Marcel has advised on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and financing operations for companies and other entities both nationally and internat...
Fernando Escura has been Managing Partner of Bufete Escura since 1987, and heads the Corporate and Commercial practice of the firm. Escura has extensive experience in Corporate, M&A, and Tax matters. He is an Arbiter of the International European Association AEADE. Member of the Board of important national and global companies, with special incidence in the automotive, oil, metallurgical and pharmaceutical industries, Escura is the adviser to a significant number of Industrial Association...
Maria J. Esteban is a partner of Bufete Escura since 1999. She has extensive experience in corporate law matters and also regularly advises on corporate governance, M&A and banking. Esteban is also an Associate Professor of Corporate Law at the IQS School of Management, Universitat Ramon Llull, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession. Prior to being appointed Partner of Bufete Escura, Esteban spent 6 years as Head of the Legal Department of S...
Jordi joined Pérez-Llorca in 2006 after having worked at a leading Spanish law firm. He advises national and international clients on all kinds of corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, restructurings, etc), start-ups and venture capital, project finance, real estate transactions (investment, development, sale, etc), corporate law and agreements. Jordi lectures for the degrees in Law at ESADE and Universitat Ramón Llull in Barc...
Claudi Garcés is Joint Managing Partner of the Barcelona office of Ventura Garcés. He specialises particularly in Commercial Law, Real Estate and Competition.He has extensive experience in the area of the sale and purchase of businesses, and has advised on both national and trans-national operations involving different jurisdictions. He also advises on the many issues relating to competition law that may arise from company acquisitions. Claudi continuously advises foreign compan...
Tomás Garcés is a Partner in the Commercial Law Department at Ventura Garcés. His professional experience has made him an expert in matters such as the negotiation and drafting of a broad range of commercial agreements, the negotiation and completion of corporate operations, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. His experience in company takeovers, restructuring operations for multinational corporate groups and joint ventures has led him to advise a wide variety of comp...
Núria Garcia Puigpelat ngp@avqlegal.com Partner Education: Law degree (2005) by the Universidad Internacional de Catalunya. Erasmus scholarship (2004-05) at the Augsburg Universität Law School (Germany) LL.M Magister Legum (2005-06) by Augsburg University (Germany) Professional experience and expertise: Núria joined the firm in 2007, and her activity is focussed on providing legal advice to national and international companies and commercial law in general. She has experien...
Zoya is a partner and co-founder of “North Legal”, a law firm founded and based in Barcelona. Zoya received her legal education in Belarus and Spain and is a Spanish qualified and practicing lawyer, a member of the Barcelona Bar Association. Due to her background, she specializes in working with foreign clients, providing legal services in Spanish, English and Russian. Practice Areas: Zoya specializes in commercial and corporate law, in particular, in relation to foreign investmen...
Practice Areas Corporate M&A, Real Estate, Project Finance. Florence, has extensive experience in deals implying public services concessionary companies. She acts as legal advisor in corporate matters for listed and non-listed companies. Also intervenes in many Real Estate transactions, project finance, leasing and development of premises dedicated to health and education activities, touristic complexes and commercial parks. Career Florence joined Pérez-Llorca in 2015. Law degree i...
After more than 15 years of experience in leading law firms (Uría Menéndez and Deloitte Legal, where he was partner and Board member), three of them residing in New York, Jordi launched his boutique firm, Maristany, in 2015. Jordi is widely experienced in multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions, complex contract architecture, as well as in international dispute resolution. Jordi serves as Board secretary of companies in different industries (pharma, biotech, and media, among o...
Adriana joined Pérez-Llorca in 2008. She works with the Corporate and Real Estate practice areas at Pérez-Llorca. She has advised on various real estate transactions and has completed due diligence proceedings for national transactions. She also has experience with business restructuring transactions and corporate due diligence proceedings. Practice areas: Corporate/M&A, Real Estate
Miriam Johansson Moreno mjm@avqlegal.com Practice area: Corporate Law, Person and Assets,Legal business and contracts Training: Graduate in Law (1996) from the Universidad Abat Oliba-CEU (Barcelona). Professional Experience and Areas of Specialization: I joined the firm in 1996, and my activity is focussed on the area of commercial and civil law, in particular in the area of company law, legal advice to companies in all areas, civil and commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions and real ...
Lucas Palomar is a partner of Cases&Lacambra in Spain. He leads the Corporate & M&A practice group in Spain. He is a lawyer, member of the Barcelona Bar Association and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Management (MBA) from ESADE. With more than 25 years of experience, prior to joining the Firm, Lucas developed his professional career at PWC Tax & Legal Services as the partner responsible for the Transactions group of the Barcelona office.Lucas is a...
Partner of PwC Currently, Silvia is the partner in charge of the TICEM (Technology, Infocomm, Entertainment, Media and Energy) tax department located in Barcelona. Economist. Silvia has a degree in Business Administration and Management and a Master’s degree in Tax Advisory from ESADE. She is teacher of tax law in ESADE. Over 18 years’ service with the tax department of PwC and member of the M&A Tax group for over 10 years providing, almost exclusively, tax advisory services f...
Practice Areas Tax. Norma has broad experience advising on cross-border and domestic M&A and real estate transactions, the financing of acquisitions, corporate and financial restructurings and capital markets. She also has extensive experience advising on international tax, tax proceedings and litigation. Career Norma Peña i Bagés joined Pérez-Llorca in March 2017 as a partner of the Tax practice area. She previously worked at various prestigious national and internat...
Lawyer specialized in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), private funds, sustainable investments (SRI), venture capital, private equity, corporate transactions, corporate restructurings, distressed M&A, corporate law and corporate finance law. More than 10 years of experience as an active lawyer, more than 50 M&A transactions advised, including international and national deals and provided advice regarding the creation of several investment funds. Member of the Barcelona Bar Associati...
Bojan Radovanovic is a partner at Cases&Lacambra in Spain. His practice is focused on Corporate & M&A, as well as on Banking & Finance, in particular, on financings and debt restructurings. Prior to joining Cases&Lacambra, he was a lawyer at Uría Menéndez’s corporate and commercial practice group, based in the Barcelona and the Beijing offices. From 2014 to 2015 he was based in the Beijing office, focusing on the Asian practice of the firm. He was a mem...
Practice Areas Corporate. Felipe specialises in Corporate and Finance Law, especially in M&A transactions, the restructuring of businesses and business groups, project finance, corporate law, commercial contracts, private equity and capital market transactions. Career Felipe Ramírez joined Pérez-Llorca in 2012. In 2019 he went on secondment to the London-based firm Stephenson Harwood. Professional Memberships The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) Education Master’s degr...
Eulalia is a lawyer specialising in commercial law, company law, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring. She constantly intervenes in complex commercial operations giving advice ranging from negotiation to legal enforcement and development. In addition, she is an expert in negotiating commercial agreements, especially in the areas of distribution, agency and franchise. She has given advice in numerous real estate operations and has extensive experience in intellectu...
Ramón obtained his Law Degree at Universidad de Barcelona and attained his Postgraduate Degree in Tax, Accountant and Financial Studies at the Universidad de Barcelona, Fundació Bosch i Gimperà. Ramon is a wide-ranged tax advisor, who has extensive experience in the field of taxation of national and international groups and he is also specialized in family business advising and corporate restructuring operations. In addition, he has extensive experience about the legal an...
Gerard joined Pérez-Llorca in 1995 and is currently head of our Barcelona office. He specialises in providing advice to both national and international clients on all real estate transactions, particularly property projects, including shopping centres, apartment blocks, office complexes and hotels. Practice areas: Real Estate, Corporate law, M&A
Practicing Lawyer member of the Barcelona Bar Association, with a Bachelor of Laws and a Double Master of Laws in International Business Law and Legal Practice. In my studies I obtained 14 'cum laude' grades. After experiences in international and national prestigious firms, I joined Sartorio Abogados in 2017. My expertise includes business and corporate law, civil law, and conflict resolution. I have been appointed Secretary of the Board of Directors of several companies.
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