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Vorstellung

Lourdes Dávalos joined Uría Menéndez in 2011. Currently she is a senior associate at the Madrid office and she is in charge of coordinating the Cuban Desk of the firm.

She is a dual-qualified lawyer in Cuba and Spain. Her areas of expertise are international commercial law, project finance, and foreign investments, with a particular emphasis on cross-border investments involving Spain, Cuba, and other Latin American countries.

Lourdes’s practice is focused in advising foreign investors (both private and state-owned) from several jurisdictions on international contracts, project finance and setting up joint ventures on foreign investment projects in Cuba (including at the Mariel Special Development Zone). She advises on transactions related to a wide variety of economic sectors, particularly those related to the tourism and leisure, construction, real estate, energy, transport, infrastructures, food and beverages industry, among others. She also has broad experience advising important financial institutions on regulatory aspects and loan transactions in Cuba.

She is recognized as an expert lawyer in Cuban law and foreign investment, and in the last editions since 2015 of the legal directory Chambers and Partner Latin America, she has been named “Star Associate" among the best lawyers of international law firms with a Cuban practice.

Ausbildung

• Law Degree, Summa Cum Laude, Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), 2007
• LLM in International Business Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), awarded with "Mention of Honor", 2008
• Law Degree, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 2010

Berufliche Mitgliedschaften

• Madrid Bar Association
• Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA)
• ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)
• Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean (OHADAC)
• Bilateral Hispanic-Cuban Committee of the Superior Council of Chambers of Commerce of Spain