Uría Menéndez

Insolvency and Financial Distress. Banking and Finance.

Rafael Sebastián is a corporate lawyer in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez. He joined the firm in 1990 and became a partner in 1991.

Rafael was previously general counsel and secretary to the board of a leading international bank.

He opened the New York office of Uría Menéndez in 1990 and was managing partner there until 1996.

Rafael’s practice covers a wide range of corporate and banking work. He specialises in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring, and has advised on insolvency proceedings involving leading Spanish and multinational companies.

English; French.

Madrid Bar Association.

Law Degree, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 1976; Economics and Business Administration Degree, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, 1977; Ph.D. in Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, 2008.