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Alberto Manzanares

Alberto Manzanares has over 30 years' professional experience in the banking sector and he specialises in all types of financing, including general lending, acquisition finance, project finance, asset finance and, in recent years, refinancing and restructuring.

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras

Carlos Portocarrero de las Heras specialises in joint ventures, bidding process, sale of portfolios and acquisitions of real estate companies. Carlos represents institutional investors, funds, financial institutions and a variety of other international real estate investors.

Carlos Hernández-Canut

Carlos Hernández-Canut's main areas of practice are finance law, including banking and capital markets.Carlos specialises in project and structured finance. He has recently been involved in some of the most prominent refinancings and restructurings in Spain.

Guillermo Guardia

Guillermo Guardia has broad experience in international mergers and acquisitions, private-equity and joint-venture transactions. Guillermo has also advised several national and international financial institutions and corporations on acquisition finance, corporate financing and project finance transactions both in the energy and in the infrastructure sector.

Jaime Velázquez

Jaime Velázquez specialises in M&A and corporate finance, mainly focused in regulated sectors such as financial, infrastructure, telecoms or energy sectors. Jaime has been the Legal Counsel for the Spanish Inland Revenue in Cataluña, Secretary of the Board of Directors and Legal Counsel for the State-owned Bank (ICO), Secretary of the Board of Directors of a private equity house (Axis S.G.E.C.R., S.A.) and General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of the Telecommunications Market Commission. Jaime leads the Clifford Chance Industrial and Financial Institutions groups in Spain.

Javier Amantegui

Javier Amantegui is a partner in Clifford Chance's Corporate/M&A group, based in Madrid. His experience includes general corporate/commercial law and corporate finance law practices. Javier specialises in domestic and international M&A and private equity practice with particular dedication to management, leveraged buy-outs and infrastructure transactions.

Javier García de Enterría

Javier García de Enterría specialises in corporate matters and equity capital markets. Javier has a broad experience in all types of M&A transactions, with a special focus on takeover bids, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, regulation of listed companies and ECM transactions, as IPOs or rights issues. A former Corporate and Commercial law professor, he has participated in different committees of experts appointed by the Spanish CNMV, in matters as the corporate regulation for the issuance of securities by listed companies or the activity of the proxy advisors in the Spanish market.

Miguel Odriozola

Miguel Odriozola is the Head of the Clifford Chance Antitrust team in Spain. He is a member of the Bar Associations of both Madrid and New York. From 1993 to 1999 he worked as a competition lawyer in Brussels. Since 2000 he is based in Madrid but splits his time between Madrid and Brussels. Miguel is a frequent speaker at courses and seminars on EU and Spanish competition law. He has also authored several competition law publications and he is the editor and co-author of the first treatise on the Spanish competition Act and its Regulation. He advises Spanish and international companies on all aspects of Competition Law, both in relation to the Spanish and the EU context. He has extensive experience in matters regarding restrictive practices and merger control operations in the energy, aviation, telecommunications, consumer goods and information technology sectors.

Miquel Montañá

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law. Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.