Find Lawyers in 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.
Guillermo Alonso-Olarra se licenció en Derecho en 1986, en la Universidad de Deusto (Vizcaya). Es consejero en diversas compañías del sector eléctrico, portuario, del transporte y de consultoría. Ha sido árbitro en diferentes procedimientos arbitrales ante Cortes de diversas Cámaras de comercio de España y Tribunales Arbitrales de Colegios de Abogados. Ha sido profesor en la Universidad de Deusto del Master de Asesoría Jurí...
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...
Miguel joined MA Abogados in February 2024 in the Commercial Law Department as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, after more than 12 years’ experience at the law firm Escalona & De Fuentes Abogados. He specialises in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and has been involved in advising on national and international acquisitions and sales transactions. Miguel also specialises in company law, having been involved in drafting all kinds of commercial agreements. He has been the secret...
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...
Educational Background Degree in Law and Diploma in Economics (University of Deusto) Master in International Trade Law (UPV/EHU-UNED) English Legal Methods (University of Cambridge) Professional experience Practice areas Jon Armendariz recently joined KPMG as the head of the corporate law / M&A practice at KPMG’s Bilbao office, after having worked at a top-tier Spanish law firm (Madrid and Bilbao) for almost thirteen years. His practice focuses mainly on corporate, M&A, banking ...
Iker Arriola is the Resident partner in Europe for Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, based in the Madrid office, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitionss and Corporate Law. Iker represents and advises clients on a variety of issues and operations. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and antitrust. Since September 2022, Iker acts as resident partner of the Firm’s European office in Madrid. With many years of experience advising s...
WORK DEPARTMENT Tax POSITION José has over 18 years experience in leading transactional work, particularly for private equity houses and real estate investment funds on complex deals (tax structuring, due diligence and tax modelling etc.) He has led tax advice on some of the most important processes that have taken place in recent years in Spain. CAREER José joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2019, bringing more than 17 years of experience working on M&A Tax teams in B...
Practice Areas Corporate/M&A. Javier specialises in private equity transactions in the healthcare, infrastructure and energy and financial sectors. He has 17 years of experience advising domestic and foreign clients on transactional matters, particularly in M&A, joint ventures and carve-outs, with a special focus on private equity. In addition, Javier participated in a secondment programme in the investment banking department at Nomura (London). He has extensive experience in commerci...
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...
Octavio Cabrera Toste has been a Lawyer and fiscal adviser since 1995. He is a graduate in law of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a degree as an expert in Business Law from San Pablo CEU University. He speaks English to bilingual level (PROFICIENCY-CPE – C2) His first few years of professional experience were with Coopers & Lybrand and subsequently with a widely-known local firm in the Canary Islands, before he set up his own practice in 1999. He is professionally renowne...
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 ...
She founded her own firm in 2011 after leading the Litigation and Bankruptcy Department at a national law firm between years 1999 and 2011. She was a Lecturer in the Litigation Department at the Law School (University of Valencia) between years 2007 and 2013 and is currently a Professor of Insolvency Law at the International University of Andalusia (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía), Universitat Jaume I in Castellón and at Catholic University of Valencia. She is an Arbitra...
Practice areas: Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Funds Javier Carvajal specialises in takeover bids, M&A transactions, private equity, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and IPOs. He advises national and international groups on transactions in the energy, infrastructures, financial and industrial sectors. Javier joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2017. He has over 20 years' experience in Corporate law. Law degree with a specialisation in Business law (Universidad Complutens...
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.
Practice Areas Restructuring and Banking & Finance. Prior to this, Cosme lent his services to several international firms. In addition, he worked for one of the main British banks as part of a secondment programme, where he was involved in corporate financing transactions subject to both Spanish and English law. Career Cosme Colmenero joined Pérez-Llorca in 2020 as Counsel in the Corporate practice, specifically in the area of Restructuring and Insolvency. Bar Admissions The Madrid...
Managing Partner at Argali, Abogados. Teodoro de Agustín has been practicing law for more than 22 years and has an extensive experience in M&A operations. In 2009 he joined Dutilh Abogados as partner, coming from an associate lawyer position at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo to lead the Financial and Commercial Law departments. Teodoro has a bachelor’s degree in Law and a graduation in Business Administration from Alcalá University (CEU Luis Vives). He has postgraduate...
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 Iván Delgado is head of Pérez-Llorca's New York office and responsible for the firm's US and LatAm Desk. He advises national and international clients on corporate, M&A and private equity transactions. He advises on acquisitions of minority and controlling shareholdings, leveraged acquisitions on secondary buyout proceedings, and public to private transactions. Iván joined Pérez-Llorca in 1999 and made partner i...
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 Banking & Finance, Corporate M&A. Mónica is an expert in Banking and Finance law. She has advised national and international clients, listed and unlisted companies, and has participated in financing, restructuring, debt acquisition and asset finance transactions. Career Mónica joined Pérez-Llorca in 2015. Degree in Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), Madrid Bar Admissions Spain, The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM). Languages Spanish, English
Licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Máster por el Instituto de Empresa en Asesoría Fiscal de Empresas. Durante su experiencia en PwC Tax & Legal Services, ha formado parte y ha dirigido el departamento de Integrated Global Solutions, para prestar servicios en fiscalidad internacional y precios de transferencia.
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...
Isabel Dutilh has a long career practicing law, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity, fields in which she was recognized as expert lawyer by Chambers & Partners. In 1988 she founded Dutilh Abogados which positioned itself as one of the leading national firms in the market in its area of specialization, business law. Isabel received her bachelor degree in Law from the Complutense University. She also has a master's in Law from the University of Wales, Cardiff and a m...
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...
After five years as an associate at Estudio Legal (1987-1992), where he acquired experience in corporate, banking, capital markets and competition, he co-founded Araoz & Rueda in 1994. Since then, he has developed his practice advising in general corporate and commercial matters and, especially, in Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets, where he has extensive experience. Furthermore, he regularly advises in litigation and restructuring/insolvency matters.
Pablo se incorporó en 1997 a PwC Tax & Legal Services y es actualmente responsable del asesoramiento jurídico en la unidad de Empresa Familiar de PwC, tras haber desarrollado su carrera profesional en los departamentos de Derecho Procesal y Transacciones. Especializado en derecho privado, tanto mercantil como civil, tiene una gran experiencia en operaciones de M&A, reestructuraciones societarias, amplio asesoramiento a socios y accionistas, incluyendo litigios en la juri...
Pedro Fernández joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2017. Before joining the firm he worked as partner for several years at another leading Spanish law firm. He advises a wide range of companies and has a wealth of experience in M&A and capital markets. He is an expert in (i) right issues and equity linked transactions, (ii) restructurings of groups, including listed companies and (iii) joint ventures. He also regularly advises Venture Capital funds and start-ups in financing ...
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...
Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE), Máster en Asesoría Jurídica de Empresas (MAJ) por IE Business School y miembro del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid.Beltrán ha sido recomendado por el directorio jurídico Chambers and Partners de 2016 en el área de Investment Funds y ha sido considerado por Best Lawyers como uno de los mejores abogados de España en Banking and Finance Law y Venture Capital Law en los a...
Javier es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Navarra (1992) y LLM por University College London – UCL- (1996), miembro del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (1993) y “Solicitor of the Law Society of England and Wales (1997) y profesor de M&A (Fusiones y Adquisiciones) en el Instituto de Empresa. Javier tiene gran experiencia en la especialidad de M&A, habiendo realizado numerosas operaciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, coordinando equipos en divers...
WORK DEPARTMENT Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A POSITION Javier Gómez advises on initial public offerings, issues and offers of all kinds of securities (including equity, debt securities and hybrid securities), takeovers and all other transactions involving listed companies, including mergers, acquisitions and restructuring deals. Many of these listed companies are traded on the Spanish IBEX 35 index. CAREER Javier Gómez joined Pérez-Llorca in 2009 and made partner in ...
Luis es socio en el área de M&A Fiscal en la oficina Madrid. Se incorporó a PwC Tax & Legal Services en 1999 y su experiencia profesional se centra en el asesoramiento a empresas españolas y europeas en sus proyectos internacionales, tanto en Latinoamérica como en el resto del mundo, para lo cual trabaja de forma coordinada con la red internacional de PwC. Luis ha trabajado para empresas de los sectores financiero, de construcción e ingeniería...
Practice areas: Public and private M&A, Private Equity, Capital Markets Pablo González advises national and international clients on corporate transactions, including high profile M&A deals, private equity, capital markets, corporate reorganisations, and corporate governance matters. He has advised on the major deals in Spain in recent years. Pablo joined Pérez-Llorca in 2006 and made partner in 2014. Law degree with diploma in Business Administration (Universidad Pontif...
Socio responsable de la práctica jurídico-fiscal de PwC en España del sector Automoción, PwC España. Miguel Ángel es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Sevilla, Master en Asesoría Jurídica de Empresas por el Instituto de Empresa (Madrid) y EDP por ESADE (Madrid / Barcelona). Abogado en ejercicio del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid.Experiencia en el sector Auto e Industrial de más de 20 años, con compañ...
Practice Areas Corporate. Javier Gutiérrez is a Tenured Lecturer of Company Law (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos). He was an Education Counselor at the Spanish Consulate in Argentina under the auspices of the relation between the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Republic of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay during 2010 and 2012; External Counselor (CMS Albiñana y Suárez de Lezo in 2010); Tenured Lecturer of Company Law at Universidad Rey Juan Carl...
Eva Hernando is a Partner at Grant Thornton and is responsible for the Galician commercial area. With more than 20 years of experience in commercial law, she has advised both national and international clients in corporate matters, leading projects of mergers and acquisitions of companies, business reorganizations, transformations, international contracting, financing, dissolution and liquidation of companies, joint ventures, Due Diligences, negotiation and execution of corporate agreements. ...
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...
Clara joined Pérez-Llorca as partner in 2006. Clara has extensive experience in Public Administrations, as Tax Inspector for over 10 years, and in the private sector. She advises national and foreign clients within all branches of tax law and foreign trade. Clara specialises in obtaining tax rulings from tax authorities, in tax audits and appeals before judicial instances, in procedural matters as well as direct and indirect taxation. Practice areas: Tax, wealth management
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