Uría Menéndez continues to lead the way in Spain according to IFLR1000 2015

The firm has six tier 1 practice areas out of seven analysed

October 15, 2014

Uría Menéndez again leads the way according to the 2015 edition of IFLR1000 published by the British publication Euromoney.

The firm’s results continue to improve in Spain, Portugal and China. In Spain, the Capital Markets: Debt practice area climbs from tier 2 to tier 1. In Portugal, the firm’s M&A practice area goes from tier 3 to tier 2, which means that Uría Menéndez-Proença Carvalho is in tier 2 for all practice areas analysed in Portugal. Finally, in China the firm features under Banking – Foreign Firms for the first time.

Spain

	2015	2014	2013
Banking and finance	1^st tier	1^st tier	1^st tier
Capital markets: equity	1^st tier	1^st tier	1^st tier
M&A	1^st tier	1^st tier	1^st tier
Restructuring and insolvency	1^st tier	1^st tier	1^st tier
Project finance	1^st tier	1^st tier	1^st tier
Capital markets: debt	1^st tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier
Capital markets: structured finance and securitizations	2^nd tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier

Portugal

	2015	2014	2013
Project finance	2^nd tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier
Capital markets	2^nd tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier
Banking	2^nd tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier
Restructuring and insolvency	2^nd tier	2^nd tier	2^nd tier
M&A	2^nd tier	3^rd tier	3^rd tier

EU Competition

Uría Menéndez maintains its tier 3 position in EU Competition.

China

As regards China, the firm retains its tier 4 position in M&A - Foreign Firms and features for the first time in the Banking - Foreign Firms section as “other notable firms”. It is the only non-Anglo-Saxon firm (apart from a Singaporean firm) ranked in this section.