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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 14 billion. Regarding his
financing expertise, he has outlined mortgage-backed financings, project
finance, structured financings and “plain vanilla” financings over Euro
7.2 billion (some of which were the first deals of their kind in Spain).
He was named Recommended Individual for Corporate
Real Estate in the 2003-2004 and 2005 editions of Global Counsel 3000 as
well as in the 2004-2005 edition of Global Counsel’s Commercial Property
Handbook. His name also appears under Real Estate in the 2004-2005
edition of Chambers Global and in the 2005 edition of the Legal Media
Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers. The June 2005
issue of Chambers Client Report quotes that Fernando Azofra “has been
identified as one of the main responsible for the rapid development of
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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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“Collective Investment Schemes” in the Law Masters’s
Programme of the Fundación Carolina, April 2002, April 2003, April 2004.
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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.
He is a lecturer at the Instituto de Empresa.
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