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Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados

CASTELLANA 216, 28046 MADRID, SPAIN
Tel:
Work +34 91 582 91 00
Fax:
Fax +34 91 582 91 14
Web:
www.gomezacebo-pombo.com
Email:
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Iñigo Erlaiz Cotelo

Tel:
Work +34 91 582 91 00
Email:
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados

Work Department

Partner.

Position

He specialises in corporate law, commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and bankruptcy (insolvency and restructuring).

Career

Lecturing: He lectures in the Postgraduate Master’s Degree course in Corporate Law at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha and in the Business Law Master’s degree course at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. He has also participated as lecturer and speaker at a variety of seminars, conferences and professional symposia, including most notably the following: • “Venture capital operations” module, Master’s degree in Business Law, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 2008. • “Venture capital in share capital”, Postgraduate Law Course, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2008. • “Bankruptcy law” module, Master’s degree in Business Law, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 2008. • “Seminar for venture capital professionals”, organized by the Asociación Española de Entidades de Capital Riesgo (ASCRI), 2006. • “Legal implications of holding structures”, Institute for International Research, 2006. • “Mergers and acquisitions seminar”, organised by Thomson Aranzadi in Bilbao, Valencia and Madrid, 2005. • “Legal and tax aspects of LBOs”, IFAES, 2005. • “Venture capital seminar”, organized by the Fundación de Estudios Bursátiles de la Bolsa de Valencia, 2005. • “Mergers and acquisitions: acquisitions and the Bankruptcy Law”, IFAES, 2005. • “Liability of Administrators and Directors under the new Bankruptcy Law”, Cap & Corp, 2004.

Languages

Spanish and English.

Member

Madrid Bar Association since 1999. ASCRI (Asociación Española de Entidades de Capital Riesgo – Spanish association of venture capital entities) since 2003.

Education

He obtained a Degree in Law and Diploma in Corporate Legal Consulting magna cum laude from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in 1999 and obtained his Diploma in Bankruptcy Law from the Madrid Bar Association in 2004. He joined Gómez-Acebo & Pombo in 1999; in 2008 he worked as a foreign associate with Debevoise & Plimpton.

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