SPANISH GOVERNMENT - Key Persons
Alba is a Senior Associate in the Competition Law Department. She has experience practicing competition law and European Union law, in proceedings related to competition law before administrative authorities including contentious-administrative review proceedings. Alba is also experienced litigating before the courts of the European Union, based in Luxembourg, defending clients' interests in a wide range of matters, such as state aid, common agricultural policy and bank resolution.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee
- Senior Associate
Job Titles:
- Member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee
- Partner
- Lead Partner of the Tax Practice
Alberto Heras has been Lead Partner of the Tax Practice of our Barcelona office since January 2013, when he joined the firm from EY Abogados, where he had been working for 14 years.
He has extensive experience in providing advice on corporate taxation and business restructuring processes and tax procedures to multinational groups and family businesses operating in a wide range of business sectors (distribution, automotive, wholesale, real estate, pharmaceutical and port concessions, among others).
He has been responsible for providing tax advice (due diligence, tax optimisation of transaction and tax aspects of financing) in numerous transactions for the purchase of companies, both from the perspective of the buyer and the seller. He has also led transfer pricing projects, including the preparation or review of compulsory documentation and the valuation of transactions of leading multinational groups.
Education
Postgraduate degree in Tax Advice, Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona (1999).
Master's Degree (MSc) in Economics, London School of Economics (1998).
Degree in Economic Sciences and Business Studies (Economics), Universidad de Barcelona (1995).
Degree in Law, Universidad de Barcelona (1996) - Included one semester at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
During his extensive professional career, Alfonso has been Director-General of Legal Services and Secretary of the Board of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores), Secretary of the Governing Committee and Head of the Legal Department of the FROB (Fund For Orderly Bank Restructuring), General Secretary of BMN and Corporate Director of the Legal Department of Affiliates and Associated Businesses of Bankia. He has been a director and secretary at different insurance companies -Caser, among others-, and consumer finance firms.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate of the Financial Regulation
Andrés is a Senior Associate of the Financial Regulation and Collective Investment Schemes (CISs) Practice. He joined the firm in 2010.
Andrés also provides services as secretary to the board of directors of 400 Variable Capital Investment Companies (SICAV) and ongoing legal advice to numerous investment funds. He advises primarily regarding company incorporations, registrations in and de-registrations from the various Commercial Registries and the registers of the CNMV and admissions to trading on the Alternative Stock Market (MAB).
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate at Ramón
Carlos is a Senior Associate at Ramón y Cajal Abogados. He has extensive professional experience in civil law. Within the litigation area, he focuses on mass litigation, banking and civil liability transactions.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate in the Commercial Law Department of the Madrid
Carmen is a senior associate in the Commercial Law Department of the Madrid office of Ramón y Cajal Abogados, where she joined in June 2017.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / Employment
Cristina Vidal has been Partner of the Commercial Law Practice and head of Financial Regulation and Collective Investment Schemes (CISs), since 2015. She specialises in infringement proceedings, advising both on preliminary supervisory and inspection proceedings and rules of conduct, market abuse, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, etc. She also participates in capital market transactions, in particular in public listings and takeover bids and in financial restructuring processes. She advises listed companies and regulated entities on matters of corporate governance and legal compliance.
Cristina is a Government Lawyer currently on leave, having practised as such before the Spanish National High Court (Audiencia Nacional) and in the Sub-Directorate General of the Litigation Service of the State Legal Service (Subdirección General de lo Contencioso de la Abogacía General del Estado). Between 2010 and 2013 she was Director of the Litigation and Disciplinary Department of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), where she also held the office of Vice-Secretary of the Governing Council.
In a more recent stage of her career, she formed part of Barclays Bank as Head of institutional and litigation legal advice.
Education
Government Lawyer (Abogada del Estado), 2002. Currently on leave.
David is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Law Department, more specifically in the areas of Financial Regulation and Collective Investment Institutions. He joined the firm in 2017, where he has developed almost his entire career.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate of the Civil Litigation, Insolvency and Arbitration
Eduardo Reigadas is Senior Associate of the Civil Litigation, Insolvency and Arbitration Practice and joined the firm in September 2010.
Within the area of Litigation, he has experience in all civil and commercial legal proceedings, focusing in particular on disputes relating to bank and securities market contracts and agreements and enforcement proceedings and procedures in commercial matters (challenging of corporate resolutions, directors' liability, etc). He also has experience in advising on matters concerning general private law and insolvency law.
He acts as lawyer in national and international commercial arbitration before various arbitration courts (ICC, CIMA, Spanish Court of Arbitration, etc.) and has been secretary of the Arbitral Tribunal.
Education
Degree in Law, Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
Master's Degree in Business Law, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Project Finance / Finance & Banking
Elena Tarragona Fernández is Senior Associate of the firm's Finance and Banking, and M&A Practices.
She joined the firm in 2014 after seven years at Caja Madrid (now Caixabank) as head of Corporate Banking Legal Services within the Business Division for Cataluña and Aragón. Prior to this, from 2005 to 2007, she worked in the Banking Practice of the law firm Jiménez de Parga Abogados.
She has extensive experience in advising both companies and financial institutions in syndicated or bilateral structured finance transactions, bank debt refinancing, restructuring processes and pre-insolvency situations, project finance (energy, real estate and infrastructure sectors), national and international corporate finance transactions, financing of acquisitions, asset financing, financing of public sector, capital markets and corporate transactions in general.
As head of Legal Services for Property Developers of the Levante Area of Spain at Caja Madrid between 2007 and 2011, she also has extensive experience in advising on real estate and registry matters in financing for the property development sector.
In 2014 and the following years she led the process for outsourcing the Corporate Banking Legal Services of Bankia (now Caixabank) to Ramón y Cajal Abogados.
She also advises financial institutions, investment firms, regulated entities and management companies in matters relating to banking and securities market regulation, having extensive experience in advising crowdfunding platforms and financial intermediaries in general.
She also has broad knowledge of acquisitions, capital investments and shareholder agreements.
Education
Programme "Mujeres Directivas en Consejos de Administración" ("Female Directors on Boards of Directors") Corporate Governance, Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), 2019.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Civil Litigation
Eloísa is a Senior Associate in the Civil Litigation Department, having joined the firm in October 2015.
Fernando Manzanedo has been Partner of the firm's Litigation, Insolvency & Arbitration Practice since 2017.
He is a Government Lawyer on leave of absence. He has extensive experience in civil, commercial and contentious-administrative proceedings. He also acts before the various Arbitration Courts (ICC, CIMA, Spanish Court of Arbitration, the Court of Arbitration of Madrid, etc.). He focuses his legal practice on complex claims in the areas of finance, infrastructure, construction and energy.
From 2012 to 2017 he held the position of Corporate Director of the legal department of Bankia. He also headed Bankia's "Asesoría Jurídica de Participadas" (Affiliates Legal Advisory Service).
From 2006 to 2010 he was General Secretary and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Aldesa Group, a construction group engaged in the development of public infrastructure and buildings, with interests in the industrial, energy and concessions sector.
As Government Lawyer he was assigned to the Spanish Central High Court (Audiencia Nacional). He has also been Technical General Secretary of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002) and the Spanish Interior Ministry (2002-2004) and director in various companies (Enresa, Cedeti and Siep).
Education
Degree in Law, Universidad de Valladolid, 1989.
Fernando Tallón has been Partner in the Civil Litigation, Insolvency and Arbitration Practice since January 2021. He joined the firm in 2013, after several years at an international law firm.
He specialises in the resolution of civil and commercial disputes in complex cases, having extensive experience in the resolution of contractual and non-contractual liability proceedings, both in national and international arbitration and in legal proceedings before the ordinary courts.
In particular he specialises in the resolution of disputes relating to engineering and construction projects, as well as disputes in the financial and security markets sectors. He has extensive experience in the resolution of disputes in the energy, M&A, real estate, hotel, insurance, pharmaceutical and food & agriculture sectors. In commercial matters he has experience in particular in proceedings regarding directors' liability, the challenging of corporate resolutions and unfair competition. In addition he specialises in claims for damages arising from infringements of Competition Law.
He acts as lawyer, arbitrator and administrative secretary in national and international commercial arbitration and has extensive experience in arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Court of Arbitration of Madrid (CAM), the Spanish Court of Arbitration (CEA), the Civil and Commercial Arbitration Court (CIMA), the Court of Arbitration of the Madrid Bar Association and ad hoc arbitrations.
He has extensive experience in advising national and international clients in business restructuring processes and pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings. He also regularly acts in proceedings relating to class actions for the protection of consumers' collective interests.
Education
Degree in Law from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.
Degree in Business Administration and Management from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner / Capital Markets
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / Finance & Banking
Javier Gómez Bermúdez has enjoyed an outstanding career in the judiciary. In 1999 he was appointed judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Audiencia Nacional, being elected its President in 2004, a position which he held until 2012.
He has also been judge of the Central Examining Magistrates' Court, judge of the Central Juvenile court and Prison Supervision judge of the Spanish Audiencia Nacional. In May 2015 he was appointed Spanish Liaison Magistrate in France by the Spanish Council of Ministers, a position which he held until joining the firm.
Although he has extensive experience in relation to terrorism, of both Islamist extremists and ETA -he is regarded as the originator of the Parot doctrine-, Gómez Bermúdez specialises in particular in financial criminal law. As an authority in this regard, in 2000 he was responsible for enforcing the judgment in the "Banesto" case and presided as judge at the courts trying high-profile cases relating to financial crimes, such as the "Torras", "Interfur", "PSV", "KIO" and "Huarte" cases, among others. In more recent times, he has been the judge examining the case of corruption among senior officials of the Regional Government of Madrid.
He is also an expert in penitentiary law, having been the first Prison Supervision judge.
Education
Degree in Law from the Universidad de Granada (1984).
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner of the Public Law
José Ignacio Vega is Partner of the Public Law and Regulated Sectors Practice and Co-Lead Partner of the firm's Food & Agriculture Practice Area.
He has been a Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) since 1992 (currently on leave) and has held numerous positions of responsibility:
José Ignacio has extensive experience in advising on matters of public law. His experience has primarily been acquired in the areas of public procurement, concessions and property and assets of the Public Authorities and in the environmental, healthcare & social health and pharmaceutical sectors and in other sectors subject to regulation or specific government intervention.
Education
Degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, 1987.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Associate of the Civil Litigation
José María is Associate of the Civil Litigation, Insolvency and Arbitration practice area and has extensive experience in all types of legal disputes, in particular those relating to financial products, contracts and construction. He also has experience in legal disputes concerning the right to honour, privacy and one's own image, having acted as counsel at all levels of legal proceedings. He also advises individuals and companies operating in the sports industry and acts on their behalf in legal proceedings before the ordinary and arbitration courts.