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Lawyers

Eduardo Geli Fernández-Peñaflor

Work Department

M&A; Banking and Finance; Insolvency and Financial Distress

Position

duardo Geli joined Uría Menendez in 1988 and has been a partner of the firm since 1998. In 2000 he was appointed head partner of the firm’s New York office and he returned to Barcelona to coordinate the Corporate Practice Area.

His practice is focused on M&A, banking and finance, securities and corporate law, and has included advising:

on mergers and acquisitions (of both private and listed corporations) and joint ventures; private equity funds, sellers and management in private equity transactions; listed and non-listed companies on corporate governance matters; on regulatory aspects of acquisitions in regulated sectors; shareholding and financial restructurings, including pre-insolvency; companies and banks on structured finance transactions, project finance, refinancing and issuers of debt and hybrid instruments; and contractors and financial institutions on significant bids for public works projects.

Education

Law Degree, Universidad Central de Barcelona, 1987