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Roxana Schäfer

Roxana Schäfer

Work Department

Corporate M&A and Real Estate

Position

Corporate M&A and Real Estate Partner

Career

Roxana's work focuses on mergers and acquisitions in various industries, structuring and development of real estate projects, private equity investments, negotiation of joint ventures and corporate and real estate financing. She has experience in civil aviation transactions, both in acquisition and financing.

Roxana has made her career in Galicia. She joined the Firm as a law clerk in 2012 and as of 2025, she is a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate practices. She is the first woman partner of both groups and has a strong commitment to fostering the growth of other women lawyers within the Firm and in the legal practice.

She worked as a foreign associate at Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City.

In the academic field, she has participated as a synodal in the evaluations of the postgraduate course on mergers and acquisitions at Escuela Libre de Derecho and has participated as lecturer in the Cátedra Galicia course at Universidad Panamericana.

Roxana has been recognized by various publications, including The Legal 500 Latin America and Chambers Latin America Guide, in M&A and Real Estate practices.

Languages

Spanish, English

Education

Roxana obtained her law degree with honors at Universidad Iberoamericana (2013). She also received the Ceneval Excellence-EGEL award. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (2018) and received the Harlan Fiske Stone award.

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