Mr. Mario Fernández Pelaz, former Head of the Legal Department of BBVA, joins Uría & Menéndez

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Mario Fernández Pelaz, former Head of the Legal Department and Member of the Governing Board of BBVA, one of Spain’s leading banks, has joined our Firm as a corporate partner

January 30, 2002

Prior to joining BBVA in 1997, Mr. Fernández took an active role in some of the most important financial operations in the last twenty years in Spain. During this time he had already participated in all the acquisition by BBVA of banks and pension funds management entities in Latin America.