José Félix Zaldívar de la Rica > Uría Menéndez > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Uría Menéndez Offices
PRÍNCIPE DE VERGARA 187
PLAZA RODRÍGUEZ URÍA
28002 MADRID
Spain
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José Félix Zaldívar de la Rica
Work Department
Energy and Natural Resources, Banking and Finance, Insolvency and Financial Distress
Career
José-Félix Zaldívar joined Uría Menéndez in 2010 and he was named partner in 2021. Between January and December 2013, he was based in Uría Menéndez’s office in São Paulo (Brazil). From September 2018 to August 2019 he joined the M&A team at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York as a foreign associate attorney.
He has over 10 years of experience advising on M&A and finance transactions, mainly in the energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. He has also advised creditors and debtors on restructuring the debt of some of Spain’s biggest companies.
He focuses his practice on corporate, acquisition and project finance as well as restructuring, sales and acquisitions in the energy sector, and sales and acquisitions of non-strategic assets of financial institutions, such as non-performing loans, real estate assets and property management platforms.
Languages
English Portuguese French
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association
Education
Law Degree, Centro Universitario Villanueva (part of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid), 2010.
Marketing Degree, Centro Universitario Villanueva (part of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid), 2010.
Lawyer Rankings
Spain > Projects and energy
(Next Generation Partners)The projects and energy team at Uría Menéndez ‘combines excellent and multidisciplinary technical knowledge with great negotiating skills’, offering expertise across regulatory, M&A, and financing matters in the solar and wind power segments. Wind and solar power expert Ignacio Álvarez Couso co-leads the team, assisting renewable energy operators on large-scale financings and acting for industrial companies on power purchase agreements. The practice is also co-headed by Juan Ignacio González Ruiz 
, who advises energy market players on corporate, transactional, and contentious matters. José Félix Zaldívar de la Rica bolsters the team in energy sector corporate and project finance work, while Roberto Fernández brings longstanding expertise in regulatory and contentious matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Environment
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Transport: Other transport
- Private equity
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: Debt
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Manufacturing
- Industry focus: Retail
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks
- Projects and energy
- Transport: Shipping
- White-collar crime
- Financial services regulatory