Benefitting from close ties to the firm's corporate and M&A department, CMS Albiñana y Suárez de Lezo is equipped to assist clients from a variety of sectors, most notably consumer products, manufacturing and telecoms, with merger control proceedings and litigation. In addition to his strong track record in merger clearance issues, Carlos Vérgez is often engaged by multinational companies seeking advice on the design and implementation of compliance programmes. Also part of the core team, Aida Oviedo handles abuse of dominant position and unfair competition cases. Both practitioners receive praise for their ‘level of service, quality of advice and standard of reporting’.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Carlos Vérgez is technically impeccable, an excellent people manager, generous with the team and his co-workers, and has very good commercial skills.’
‘It has provided outstanding service and support to an especially long and complex transaction.’
Key clients
- Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer
- Macquarie Capital, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Arjun and Daiwa
Work highlights
- Advised Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer on the joint sale of its legal publishing business in Spain (Aranzadi) together with the Spanish and French businesses of Wolters Kluwer to Karnov, working as advisors to both vendors (Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer).
- Advised Logista on competition compliance matters and merger control issues.