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Jaime Almenar is the Head of the Public Law practice in Spain. He has experience in all areas related to the public and regulated sectors in Spain, specialising in energy regulation, telecommunications, financial regulation, public procurement and environmental law.

Luis Alonso is the Head of the Corporate / M&A Practice of Clifford Chance Spain. Luis specialises in all aspects of public and private M&A and acts for corporates and financial investors across a wide range of industry sectors including infrastructure, energy, financial institutions, telecoms, retail, sport, media & entertainment. His practice has particular emphasis on M&A transactions, takeovers, joint ventures and corporate finance.

Javier Amantegui

Javier Amantegui's experience includes general corporate/commercial law and corporate finance law practices. Javier specialises in domestic and international M&A and private equity practice with particular dedication to management, leveraged buy-outs and infrastructure transactions.

Samir is a partner in the Corporate / M&A department and a lead member of the Private Equity practice group. He specializes in cross-border M&A, private equity and infrastructure transactions. He has been consistently involved as lead partner in many of the leading, high-end transactions which have taken place in the Spanish market in the last years.

Begoña Barrantes

Miguel Barredo

Andrés Berral specialises in real estate transactions. He has worked on a number of significant transactions involving the acquisition and disposal of real estate assets, portfolios of REOs and the creation of joint ventures for the development of real estate assets. He is a qualified in both Spain and England and Wales.

Carme Briera is responsible for the Administrative Law Department in Barcelona and specialised in general Administrative/Public Law and regulated sectors such as telecommunications, audiovisual, energy, environmental, infrastructures and health.

Juan Cuerva de Cañas

Juan Cuerva specialises in intellectual property and consumer law, particularly in the field of copyright, technology, IT, software and media. He has in-depth expertise in tech M&A projects and also represents clients in complex intellectual property and commercial litigation. Juan combines legal practice with academic activity in various universities and legal institutes. He routinely publishes on copyright and tech matters.

Marc Casas specialises in infrastructure, public procurement, energy and public services, amongst other regulated matters. He regularly represents clients before public authorities, regulatory agencies and contentious-administrative courts.

Pablo Serrano de Haro

Pablo Serrano's main areas of practice are international taxation, M&A, real estate, finance and tax litigation. Pablo advises high quality international investors on the structuring of their investments and is very active on the incorporation of all type of investment funds (real estate funds - specifically REITs -debt funds, equity funds, etc). He also enjoys extensive experience on large corporate restructurings and M&A cross border transactions. He and his team have developed an outstanding tax litigation practice. Pablo is the Tax professor and co-director of a Business Law Program at a prestigious Law School in Madrid.

Fernando Escribano

Fernando Escribano is a Counsel in the Tax practice at Clifford Chance Madrid, specialising in the tax aspects of M&A, real estate, banking and finance transactions. Fernando has extensive experience leading the tax structuring of M&A and private equity deals, as well as NPL and real estate (REO) portfolios. Fernando also advises on the tax structuring of renewable energy transactions.

Eugenio Fernández-Rico

Eugenio Fernández-Rico has significant experience in acquisition finance, debt restructuring, direct lending from unregulated entities and complex structured financings. He also specializes in leasing and financing structures in asset finance deals, particularly within the aviation industry. He represents financers, developers, sponsors, investors and borrowers in infrastructure, telecoms and energy project financings both in Spain and in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay).

Felipe Font specializes in Restructuring and Real Estate Finance. He has extensive expertise advising companies, financial institutions and investment funds on a wide-range of complex international cross-border and domestic financing transactions. This includes corporate finance, acquisition finance and bank lending generally.

Eduardo García

Eduardo García is the Head of the Global Financial Markets Practice of Clifford Chance Spain. Eduardo has a broad experience in all types of structure debt, securitization as well as general lending, real estate finance, project finance (including project bonds) and restructurings. He acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, investment funds, multi-laterals, sponsors and corporates. He is particularly active in the Fintech area.

Javier García de Enterría

Javier García de Enterría specialises in corporate matters and equity capital markets. Javier has a broad experience in all types of M&A transactions, with a special focus on takeover bids, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, regulation of listed companies and ECM transactions, as IPOs or rights issues. A former Corporate and Commercial law professor, he has participated in different committees of experts appointed by the Spanish CNMV, in matters as the corporate regulation for the issuance of securities by listed companies or the activity of the proxy advisors in the Spanish market.

Fernando Giménez-Alvear

Fernando Giménez-Alvear specialises in litigation and arbitration. He has acted in all types of judicial, mediation and arbitration proceedings before both national and international courts. Fernando is member of the insurance group of the firm and has extensive experience in conflicts in the insurance sector and disputes related to distribution and agency agreements, M&A and Real Estate transactions, Corporate Law, antitrust and unfair competition.

Roberto Grau specialises in tax aspects of Capital Markets and Banking and Finance transactions. In particular, he has a wide experience in the tax structuring of debt and equity instruments and issuance of derivatives and securitisation transactions. Roberto also deals with the tax advice of Corporate restructuring and M&A transactions and Private Equity.

Guillermo Guardia

Guillermo Guardia has broad experience in international mergers and acquisitions, private-equity and joint-venture transactions. Guillermo has also advised several national and international financial institutions and corporations on acquisition finance, corporate financing and project finance transactions both in the energy and in the infrastructure sector.

José Guardo's main areas of practice are Projects, Asset Finance and Export and Trade Finance. José advises all the main financial Spanish and international institutions active in Spain. José also is very active advising corporations and multilaterals abroad, and in particular in Latin America. He has vast expertise in infrastructures and energy related transactions.

Antonio Henríquez

Antonio Henriquez specialises in international equity and debt capital markets transactions. Antonio has acted for both underwriters and issuers in international capital raisings and public offerings, exchangeable and convertible bonds issues, hybrid capital and contingent capital issues, stand-alone multijurisdictional bond issues, medium term note programmes, euro-commercial paper and certificate programmes, warrant programmes as well liability management and debt recovery work.

Javier Hermosilla

Javier Hermosilla specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity, restructurings and corporate matters. Javier acts for a broad range of clients including corporates, funds and financial services groups, particularly in the energy & infrastructures, financial, and consumer, goods & retail sectors.

Carlos Hernández-Canut

Carlos Hernández-Canut's main areas of practice are finance law, including banking and capital markets.Carlos specialises in project and structured finance. He has recently been involved in some of the most prominent refinancings and restructurings in Spain.

Belén Irissarry

Belén is Counsel in the Antitrust Department of the Madrid office. She has extensive experience and has participated in numerous infringement proceedings and merger control transactions at both EU and national level, with a special focus on the infrastructure, energy, industrial, distribution, telecommunications and information technology sectors.

Fernando Irurzun

Fernando Irurzun is the Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department in Spain. Fernando is a State Attorney currently on leave of absence. As State Attorney Fernando has been Deputy Director-General for Litigation Affairs (Solicitor General's Office-Directorate of the State Legal Service), Agent of the Kingdom of Spain before the European Court of Human Rights, and State Attorney before different Spanish Courts. He has been also Counsellor in the Spanish Permanent Representation before the European Union; and Seconded National Expert in the Legal Service of the European Banking Authority. Fernando has more than 25 years of experience acting before the Courts of all jurisdictions and instances. Fernando specialises in Commercial Litigation, Administrative Law, Data Protection and International Public Law.

Ana Latorre is a member of the Madrid Bar Association. Joined Clifford Chance 2008 and has worked in Madrid and Brussels. Ana is focused on EU and Spanish competition law matters. She has been involved in numerous infringement and merger control proceedings in a broad range of sectors, including aviation, audiovisual and telecoms.

Alberto Manzanares

Alberto Manzanares has over 30 years' professional experience in the banking sector and he specialises in all types of financing, including general lending, acquisition finance, project finance, asset finance and, in recent years, refinancing and restructuring.

Miquel Montañá

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law. Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.

Josep Montefusco

Josep Montefusco specialises in litigation and intellectual property, unfair competition and advertising law, especially in the healthcare, TMT and automotive sectors. Josep has experience in patent and trademark litigation, including applications for preliminary injunctions and all kinds of proceedings on the merits. Josep also represents clients in damages claims following the revocation of preliminary injunctions. Josep lectures at several prestigious Spanish universities and education centres like ESADE, ISDE, the University of Alicante, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Barcelona Bar Association- ICAB.

Pablo Murcia is a Counsel in the Corporate / M&A department and a member of the firm’s Entertainment and Sport practice. He specialises in domestic and international M&A transactions, both for corporates and financial investors, with special focus on the Sport, Entertainment, Energy and Infrastructure sectors. In particular, he has taken an essential role in the development of the Entertainment and Sport practice in Spain, acting in all major sport-related transactions. He is a sports law, corporate law and M&A lecturer at ISDE.

Miguel Odriozola

Miguel Odriozola is the Head of the Clifford Chance Antitrust team in Spain. He is a member of the Bar Associations of both Madrid and New York. Since 2000 he has been based in Madrid but splits his time between Madrid and Brussels. Miguel is a frequent speaker at courses and seminars on EU and Spanish competition law. He has also authored several competition law publications and he is the editor and co-author of the first treatise on the Spanish competition Act and its Regulation. He advises Spanish and international companies on all aspects of Competition Law, both in relation to the Spanish and the EU context. He has extensive experience in matters regarding restrictive practices and merger control operations in the telecommunications, technology, aviation, consumer goods and energy sectors. Since 2019, Miguel has been a non-governmental advisor (NGA) to DGComp (European Commission) at the International Competition Network (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group.

Epifanio Pérez

Epifanio Pérez is a partner in the Banking & Finance Group. Epifanio has worked on a number of significant structured finance (including acquisition, project and asset finance) transactions as well as in restructurings. He has been a member of the Madrid bar association since 1997.

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras specialises in joint ventures, bidding process, sale of portfolios and acquisitions of real estate companies. Carlos represents institutional investors, funds, financial institutions and a variety of other international real estate investors.

María Pradillo

Patricia Puertas

Jesús Quesada is a Partner of the Global Financial Markets (GFM) department. Jesús specialises in structured finance, securitisation and financing transactions (including syndicated loans, project finance, NPLs, real estate finance and restructurings). With more than 17 years of experience, Jesús has worked on a significant number of innovative transactions in the banking and capital markets area. Jesús acts for a broad range of market participants, including banks, investment funds, institutional investors, sponsors and corporates.

Maria Sabau specialises in acquisition finance and refinancings acting both for lenders and borrowers/sponsors. She has a significant experience in corporate finance deals and is usually engaged in project finance deals, acting both for lenders and borrowers in infrastructure and energy project deals and has participated in financing structures in asset finance deals within the film industry.

Rodrigo Uría specialises in financing operations including syndicated loans, structured financing, acquisition and project finance as well as restructurings. With more than 15 years of experience, Rodrigo is actively involved in advising both Spanish entities as well as international investors, and advises on regulatory matters linked to the complicated operation of the financial markets.

Juan Valcárcel

Juan Valcárcel is a senior associate lawyer in the Corporate and M&A practice area at Clifford Chance. He specialises in advising on M&A, corporate restructurings, and general corporate matters. Juan has developed expertise in the (re)insurance sector, working with insurance undertakings on acquisitions and divestments, bancassurance agreements, portfolio transfers, distribution and agency agreements, joint ventures, and (re)insurance regulatory law. He also works with private equity firms and corporate clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors, providing advice on portfolio acquisitions, sales, and joint ventures for asset development and operation, particularly in the renewable energy market.

Jaime Velázquez

Jaime Velázquez specialises in M&A and corporate governance, mainly focused in regulated sectors such as financial, infrastructure, telecoms or energy sectors. Jaime has been the Legal Counsel for the Spanish Inland Revenue in Cataluña, Secretary of the Board of Directors and Legal Counsel for the State-owned Bank (ICO), Board member of a private equity house (Axis S.GE.C.R., S.A.) and General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of the Telecommunications Market Commission. Jaime leads the Clifford Chance Industrial and Financial Institutions groups in Spain.

Iñigo Villoria

Iñigo Villoria leads the Insolvency & Restructuring team in Spain and has worked for both creditors and debtors in insolvency proceedings, in debt restructuring deals, and in agreements for the sale and purchase of assets of insolvent companies. He is a specialist in claw back actions and insolvency liability claims (including shadow directorship issues). He also advises on complex financial litigation, enforcement of guarantees and claims arising from the sale and purchase of portfolios. He is a lecturer in several Insolvency Law programmes (Instituto de Empresa, ICADE, Madrid Bar) and a regular contributor to specialist journals and the financial media on these matters.

José Luis Zamarro

José Luis Zamarro specialises in Spanish regulated sectors. This comprises infrastructure, railway, airport, utilities, PPP, concessions, privatizations, energy, renewable energy, public subsidies and EU funds granting and reimbursement procedures, and also on public sector finance, with debt issues by the Kingdom of Spain, the Spanish regions and public bodies, as well as administrative sanctions in regulated sectors, including anti-money laundering regulations and other financial sector regulations. José Luis acts for bidders, lenders, public administrations and competing entities. José Luis also engages in all public law litigation related to the previous.