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Alejandro is a partner and co-head of our EU Competition Law and Tech Regulation practice based in Brussels and in Madrid. He currently specialises in antitrust and commercial regulation, compliance and investigations, as well as in related disputes and litigation, in a variety of sectors including TMT, energy, consumer products and e-commerce. Specifically, Alejandro advises clients on the interplay between competition law and the GDPR, cybersecurity, and other related aspects of EU tech and platform regulations. Throughout his career, he has had first-hand and material involvement in important competition matters in the TMT sector, including two of the four Google EU investigations since 2010, and two four-to-three mergers in the telecoms sector (WIND/Hutchison/JV and Telefónica Deutschland/E-Plus). He has developed his expertise on competition and data privacy law and policy, being CIPP/E certified under the IAPP and having advised and represented international corporations on numerous on EU privacy and data protection compliance matters, both at national level and from a U.S.-EU standpoint. Today, he also advises clients on the impact on their business of future EU regulation, such as the AI Act, the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. Alejandro originally trained at the energy merger unit of the European Commission. He has represented and acted for clients in numerous mergers across a variety of sectors. Over the years, he has also represented and advised clients in numerous antitrust and cartel investigations, including successfully applying for immunity and leniency for a major financial institution in numerous EU cartel investigations, successfully defending a financial institution from formal allegations made by the European Commission in the CDS Information Market case, successfully defending a toy manufacturer against an EU inspection, and successfully defending cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies against investigations and fining decisions from European authorities. Alejandro also advises companies on ESG regulation and on the interplay between these rules and competition law and investigations. He follows closely the enactment and application of bills and laws such as the CSRD, the CS3D and the ESG Rating Regulation, counselling clients on the adoption of compliance measures and reporting and due diligence requirements.

Alfredo de Lorenzo

Alfredo specialises in capital markets, structured products, derivatives and distressed debt (acquisitions and disposals of secured and unsecured NPL portfolios). Alfredo is the Head of the Financial Markets practice in Spain. He advises investment banks, commercial banks and corporates on a variety of large transactions, such as debt issues, MTN and ECP Programmes, repackagings, securitisations and other complex structure finance transactions. He is a recognised practitioner, with extensive expertise in advising issuers/arrangers and institutional investors on a wide range of financings. He also advises hedge funds on the acquisition and disposal of secured and unsecured NPL portfolios. His knowledge of the Spanish market and understanding of its clients business allow him to create strategic legal solutions to its clients. Alfredo is dual qualified, he was admitted as a lawyer in Spain in 1997 and as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1998. This dual qualification gives him a competitive strength in the market through his rare capability in offering advice to the firm’s clients with interests in Spain, the UK and the US.

Andrés Mochales

Andrés has more than 30 years of experience as a litigator, with expertise in all type of proceedings (including financial, civil, arbitration and bankruptcy). Andrés has a deep understanding of the Financial Institutions sector and his core area of specialisation is representing these entities in financial litigation procedures or defending their interest in major insolvency proceedings happening in Spain. He also acts as an arbitrator and as a lawyer before the most prestigious Courts of Arbitration in Spain. He currently teaches commercial contracts in the LLM of the Instituto de Empresa, a leading business school in Madrid. He is also a professor in the IE Advanced Course of Insolvency Law, as well as member of the Academic Organization Committee of the yearly National Insolvency Congress organized by Instituto de Empresa -addressed to judges, professors, lawyers and experts in bankruptcy.

Borja Carpintero

Borja's core areas of specialisation are capital markets and banking. He has been involved in several aspects of capital markets transactional and regulatory work, including a variety of international transactions such as debt issues, securitisations and other complex structure finance transactions. Borja joined Simmons & Simmons in 2007 and he is a member of the Financial Markets Group. He advises financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, on debt capital market transactions. He has particular expertise in advising issuers and arrangers on MTN and ECP Programmes, repackagings, securitisations, within others.

Carmen Torres

Carmen is a partner at Simmons & Simmons’ employment practice in Spain, advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. She specialises in workforce restructuring and collective negotiations, high-level management conflicts and restructuring. Carmen is generally involved in complex litigation matters and advises international companies in compliance matters as well as in key strategic issues (ie - illegal lender of employees, TUPE transfers, etc.).

Eduardo Peñacoba

Eduardo is the Country Head in Spain as well as heading up the Employment practice of Simmons & Simmons in Spain, advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. He specialises in advising on cross-border transactions, including issues raised in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and integrations, as well as major international projects, such as restructurings and outsourcing. This includes collective employment issues such as collective bargaining, works council elections, the structure and organisation of European works councils and negotiations linked to reductions in the work force and collective transfers. Eduardo advises a wide range of clients from start-up companies to multinational corporations across all of the firm’s core sectors (Financial Institutions, Asset Management and Investment Funds, TMT and with special focus in, Life Sciences and the pharmaceutical industry). Eduardo provides expert employment advice to domestic and international clients in all sectors. He advises on all matters within the Employment Law arena, including negotiations, judicial proceedings at every level of the Spanish courts, executive appointments and exits, employee benefits, pension and remuneration schemes, collective bargaining and company agreements, corporate restructuring processes, among others. He offers innovative solutions to the multiple labour situations his clients face when conducting business. His involvement has been key to major companies on the Iberian Peninsula and he has participated in some of the most strategic, complex and high-profile cases involving large company restructurings and employment court proceedings. He is a leading practitioner included in the most renowned legal directories. Particularly, he offers experience in the labour aspects of corporate restructuring and M&A, with notable expertise in the life sciences sector. He also advises on contentious claims relating to dismissals. Eduardo Peñacoba is a recurrent lecturer in leading business schools, and usually participates as a lecturer and teacher in different courses and conferences about Employment Law.

Emma Morales

Emma Morales is a distinguished partner in the Dispute Resolution group at our Madrid office, bringing over two decades of expertise to her role. Specializing in complex disputes, Emma represents financial institutions, hedge and litigation funds, and publicly traded companies in both domestic and international contexts. Her practice focuses on contract and corporate law disputes, including breach of contract, directors' liability, and indemnities, as well as competition law, banking litigation, construction, and energy matters. Emma's extensive experience encompasses a wide range of litigation and arbitration scenarios. She is proficient in handling cases before various domestic (CAM, CIMA, CEA) and international arbitration forums (ICSID, ICC, LCIA), and she has a strong track record in court trials and appeals, including civil, commercial, and criminal courts. Notably, Emma is an expert in extraordinary appeals of cassation and for breach of process before the Spanish Supreme Court. In addition to her legal practice, Emma has been appointed as an arbitrator in several disputes, underscoring her recognition and trust within the legal community. She is also a dedicated educator, lecturing on advocacy at IE Law School and on arbitration practices at ISDE. Emma has contributed to the legal field through numerous articles and collaborations with prestigious publications such as Wolters Kluwer, Leaders League, and El Economista. Her contributions to the legal profession have not gone unnoticed, as evidenced by her recognition by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Leaders League, and Best Lawyers. Emma is actively involved in the legal community, serving as a member of the CIAM CIAR Corporate Arbitration Working Group, Co-Head of the Arbitration Commission of Woman in a Legal World, and has participated in the first CIAM CIAR Advance Practice Course for Aribtrators.

Francisco De León

Francisco is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice of our Madrid office, with extensive experience in M&A and general company law matters. In particular, Francisco has vast knowledge of M&A transactions in the insurance, financial services, collective investment, securitisation funds and pension funds management sectors, having participated, throughout his 25 years of experience, in numerous transactions of acquisition and sale of insurance companies, insurance portfolios and other regulated financial entities, with a particular focus on bancassurance alliances between Spanish credit institutions and foreign and Spanish insurance groups. He has also participated in complex reinsurance operations of great economic significance, such as reinsurance of large life risk insurance portfolios for the monetization of their value (VIF monetization reinsurance). Francisco also regularly advises various entities in the insurance and financial sectors on matters relating to insurance regulation (in particular Solvency II, insurance distribution EU and national rules and insurance contract law), pension plans and pension funds, right of establishment and freedom of services regime for insurance companies and intermediaries, financial services customer protection and the mortgage market. Throughout his career he has published several articles in specialized journals and participated in collective works on insurance supervision regulations, distribution, pension plans and funds and general commercial law.

Ignacio Domínguez

Ignacio is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice of our Madrid office, with extensive experience in all aspects of commercial law. He has a particular focus on M&A and private equity matters. He regularly plans, manages and executes mergers, acquisitions, company restructurings, corporate governance, asset purchases and joint venture projects for international and domestic clients. He also has experience advising special opportunity funds and companies in restructuring & insolvency matters in Spain. His area of expertise encompasses a wide number of sectors, including energy, corporate services, media, health care, infrastructure and sports. Ignacio is a pioneer in the development of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues within the M&A/PE industry in Spain.

Juan Sosa Pons-Sorolla

Juan heads the firm's Tax practice in Spain, advising on all areas of corporate and personal tax. He has broad experience in international tax planning, M&A and property taxation, with specific focus over the past few years on cross-border distressed debt and real estate transactions. He also has extensive experience in tax and regulatory matters relating to financial services, with particular focus on collective investment schemes and hedge funds, as well as capital markets taxation. In addition, he regularly advises asset managers on tax litigation matters.

Olivia Delagrange

Olivia is a partner in the Kennedys Law Madrid office and is qualified in three jurisdictions: Spain (2006), Belgium (2004) and England and Wales (2015). She is a specialist in Marine, Product Liability, Construction, Property, Aviation and Energy and her client base includes insurers and reinsurers writing risks in Spain. Olivia regularly defends insurers and reinsurers and advises on coverage and policy wording. She has an extensive background in transportation law, including marine, road and aviation. She is often appointed for international insurance cases, which with her triple qualification and her ability to work in four languages, is no doubt an added value for (re)insurers. She also has specialist expertise relating to financial lines (D&O, BBB, infidelity).

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