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Practice Areas
Real Estate Law
Banking and Financial Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
E-commerce Law
Education
Law Degree (with Honours),
Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 1992
Business Administration Degree,
Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 1993
Languages
English
Portuguese
Membership of Professional Associations
Madrid Bar Association
Member of the expert panel consulted by the Ministry of Science and
Technology for the preparation of the Annual Report on Industrial
Technology Prospects, 2000.
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Fernando Azofra
Partner
Madrid office
fav@uria.com
Tel: +34 915 864 564
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Fernando Azofra is a partner in the Madrid office of
Uría Menéndez. He was admitted to the Madrid Bar in 1992 and joined the
firm in 1993. He set up and headed Uría Menéndez’s Lisbon office from
1998 to 2001.
At Uría Menéndez, he advises domestic and foreign
companies on real estate and banking matters. He has broad expertise in
structuring and implementing property investments, divestments and
financings He has assisted in corporate and real estate deals for an
aggregate consideration in excess of Euro 20 billion. Regarding his
financing expertise, he has outlined mortgage-backed financings, project
finance, structured financings and “plain vanilla” financings over Euro
8.6 billion (some of which were the first deals of their kind in Spain).
He is regarded as a leading lawyer by the main
international legal directories, such as, Chambers & Partners, PLC and
International Who's Who of Lawyers, among others.
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Legal Teaching
He lectures on a continuous basis on property, M&A and
banking matters for law schools, legal and business institutes and
organisations, such as:
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“Legal environment of Shopping Malls” at the seminar
sponsored by the Institute for International Research in 2006.
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“Urban infrastructure finance” at the seminar on Real
Estate Investment sponsored by Recoletos Editors in November 2005.
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“Collective Investment Schemes” in the Annual Law Master
Programme of the Fundación Carolina since 2002.
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“Joint Ventures” for the Legal Master’s Programme
sponsored by the Port Catholic University (Portugal), April 2002.
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“Distance Marketing of Financial Services Draft Directive”
in the “Electronic Commerce” Seminar sponsored by the Institute for
International Research, 2000.
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“Industrial Technology Prospects”, EOI, 2000.
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“Legal framework for private financing of transport
infrastructure” in “Private financing of public infrastructure”, a seminar
sponsored by the Basque Public Administration, February 1997.
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“Abstract guarantees by credit entities” in the “Business
v banks” seminar sponsored by the Instituto Superior de Técnicas y Prácticas
Bancarias, October 1997.
Since 2005, Fernando is the academic director of the
annual post-graduate programme on “Real Estate Finance” of the Instituto de
Empresa business and law school (Madrid).
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