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Banking and finance partner, Alfredo Barona has a strong track record in this sector. His practice covers many areas within the banking and finance sector, such as corporate finance, asset finance, project finance, real estate finance, and restructurings.In recent years, Alfredo has led some of the major deals in the Spanish financial sector.
Burkhart Goebel helps clients navigate the challenging seas of complex cross-border and multiple jurisdiction IP litigation. In his 20 years of experience, he has pleaded or acted as instructing counsel before senior courts in almost every jurisdiction in Europe, handling some of the largest multiple jurisdiction disputes in the history of IP litigation. He constantly draws on the experience and insights gained from these different jurisdictions to make each case a success. He knows how to avoid surprises – he’s seen where the pitfalls lie and guides clients around them. Rare among IP litigators, Burkhart has particular expertise in IP-related public international law. Working closely with offices from Spain to Russia adds to his deep understanding of a wide range of legal issues and jurisdictions.
As head of the Hogan Lovells Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice in Madrid, Casto has extensive experience advising international and local companies while representing them before the European Union and the Spanish Competition Authorities as well as in judicial procedures regarding all aspects of antitrust proceedings.
Heading our Private Equity practice in Spain, Graciela Llaneza is renowned in private equity and merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. She has a solid track record in advising both financial investors on domestic and cross-border transactions as well as Spanish and international companies on M&A transactions. Her specific areas of experience include sectors such as financial services, consumer, health care and energy. She has advised a wide variety of international funds and private equity houses and fully understands the private equity market, which enables her to provide comprehensive and innovative solutions to clients' transaction requirements.
Imogen Fowler works with brand owners to proactively protect and enforce their trademarks and designs across Europe and globally, from brand inception and strategy through to searching, filing, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and commercialization. Based in Alicante, Spain, the home of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, Imogen advises clients in multiple European languages and has extensive experience in successfully navigating clients through the differences in intellectual property laws across the Europe region.
Javier Gazulla is a team player and is used to working together in domestic and cross-border transactions with colleagues in other practice groups and other offices of Hogan Lovells. Javier joined from a Big Four accounting firm where he was responsible for the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) tax team in Spain, and previously worked for several years in an international law firm and in a major Spanish law firm, so he has a combined legal and accounting panoramic view when approaching tax issues. Javier is a Tax partner in the Madrid office. He focuses on the tax structuring of M&A transactions, joint ventures, group reorganizations, and debt restructurings, and has broad experience in advising on the tax aspects of foreign investments in Spain and of Spanish investments abroad. In his tax advice, Javier provides customized and practical solutions, trying to understand the client objectives and also taking into account the legal, commercial, and accounting implications involved in a transaction.
Having participated in some of the most relevant finance transactions in Spain, Hogan Lovells partner Jose Luis understands all players' needs and concerns and has the ability to build consensus amongst them. Working in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Jose Luis focusses his practice on structured finance, securitization deals, energy and infrastructure project finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance and insolvency and debt restructuring.
Juan is an experienced international tax lawyer who helps Spanish and multinational clients develop sophisticated tax strategies for international operations and transactions, being able to understand client objectives and taking into account the legal, commercial and accounting implications involved in each project.
Juan Ramón is an IP/IT and Data Protection Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, Madrid. Juan Ramón is currently involved in different projects relating to Digital Services Act, P2B Regulation, Data Governance Act and provides assistance in IP/IT matters. Insurance companies, a multinational retailer, real estate companies and technology platforms are some of the clients Juan Ramón is advising.
Located in the Hogan Lovells Madrid office, Luis Alfonso Fernández Manzano leads the firm’s contentious Spanish Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group. Luis Alfonso consistently exhibits a great depth and breadth of experience in litigation with regard to insurance matters, coverage disputes, reinsurance disputes, claims handling, industrial losses, and aviation claims. He is highly regarded in reinsurance contracts and practice, and on the regulatory aspects of the insurance and reinsurance industry.
Pablo Muelas is the head of the Insurance and Reinsurance practice of the Madrid office. Pablo has extensive experience in regulatory and corporate law in the insurance and reinsurance sector. In addition to his position as the Subdirector of the DGSFP, he has been a national expert in the European Commission. Before joining Hogan Lovells, he was the head of the insurance practice of an important national firm.
Sara is a Senior Associate at the Investigations, White Collar and Fraud (IWCF) practice in Madrid.