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Ángel Alonso, Partner of the Special Situations, Restructuring & Insolvency Department at Araoz & Rueda, joined the firm in 2025. During his career of more than twenty-five years, Ángel has specialized in all types of matters related to opportunistic and special situations, restructuring plans, distressed transactions (credit and M&A), and insolvency issues in general, advising a wide range of stakeholders – debtors, special sits funds, lenders – on some of the most significant and often cross-border cases in this field.

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.

Partner in the Real Estate Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2016. Throughout his career he has specialized in projects of restructuring, negotiation and execution of international real estate transactions, handling civil, commercial, planning and administrative aspects of matters such as auction sales and sale & lease back transactions of industrial and commercial premises. He has also focused on office and retail complex leases and forward funding agreements.

Eduardo de León

Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Administrative Law Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2013. He has broad experience in advising a wide range of clients in disputes before the Spanish Courts, as well as in the area of administrative law and related proceedings.

Alejandro Fernández de Araoz

Partner at Araoz & Rueda, he co-founded the firm in 1994. 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 corporate litigation and restructuring/insolvency matters.

Partner in the Employment Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2021. Clara advises in labour matters to all kind of national and international clients, including the labour aspects arising from the acquisition of companies and those related to senior management. She acts regularly in defense of our clients’ interests representing them in conflicts before the labour courts and labour authorities. She has also advised in the preparation of collective procedures (workforce restructurings, collective dismissals and temporary suspension of contracts).

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.

Javier Prieto, partner of the Tax Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2011. Javier is specialized in tax advice arising from national and international M&A transactions (investment/divestment structures and private equity funds), design of tax efficient acquisitions and financing structures, tax due diligence procedures, inspections and tax litigation, international taxation, tax planning for investors, among others.

Partner in the M&A/Corporate Department at Araoz & Rueda, he cofounded the firm in 1994. He has developed his practice in the area of Mergers and Acquisitions, where he has extensive experience in advising all sorts of industrial and financial clients – both on behalf of the buyer and the seller – in joint-ventures, splits and mergers and acquisitions, including both public offers of purchase and sale of stock and purchase and sale of assets.

Ángel S. Freire

Ángel S. Freire, Araoz & Rueda Partner since 2023, joined the firm as an associate in 2013. Ángel specializes in Dispute Resolution, particularly in the area of arbitration, acting as counsel, arbitrator and administrative secretary in several arbitration proceedings in diverse jurisdictions and languages, both ad hoc and administered by international institutions such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and national institutions, such as the Madrid Arbitration Court (CAM), the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (CIMA), the Asociación para el Ejercicio de la Mediación y el Arbitraje (ASEMARB) and the Chambre de Comerce et d’Industrie de Paris (CCIP). He has also experience in mediation before the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR).

Francisco Solchaga

Partner in the Energy Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2007. Francisco is specialized in energy, advising on numerous projects relating to the promotion and financing of wind and solar plants. He has also extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and securities markets.

Partner in the Competition and EU Law Department at Araoz & Rueda since 2005. She is specialized in Competition/EU Competition, advising clients before the Spanish/EU competition authorities. Ainhoa has also extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, unfair competition and on intellectual property matters.

Partner in the Energy Department at Araoz & Rueda, since 2020, she joined the firm as an associate in 2011. Laura advises national and multinational companies in corporate related matters, focusing in the area of energy law. Her advice includes all kind of corporate and commercial matters as well as those directly related to the regulatory issues arising from the acquisition and financing of renewable energy (mainly photovoltaic and wind) projects.