Corporate and Commercial

“The corporate, M&A and private equity department houses over 30 partners, and recent mandates have seen the lawyers advising on national and international transactions involving companies throughout the Iberian peninsula, acting for both sellers and purchasers.“ (Chambers Europe)

Noticias

19/03/2019 - Law on real estate credit agreements

Law 5/2019 of 15 March on real estate credit agreements which will come into force on 16 June 2019.

21/01/2019 - On-call service to be offered by Commercial Courts during the 2019 Mobile World Congress

The on-call service to be offered by Barcelona and Alicante Commercial Courts during the 2019 Mobile World Congress has been approved.

11/10/2018 - Implementation of MIFID II

On 29 September 2018, Royal Decree-law 14/2018 of 28 September, amending the Consolidated Text of the Securities Market Law was published in the Official State Gazette.

29/11/2017 - Royal Decree-Law 19/2017 on basic payment accounts, account switching and comparability of payment account fees

This Royal Decree-law transposes Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to basic payment accounts.

03/07/2017 - New European Regulation on the prospectus when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading

On 30 June 2017, the Official Journal of the European Union published Regulation No. 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market, and repealing Directive 2003/71/EC.

16/06/2017 - Uría Menéndez, named Best Law Firm of the Year in the second edition of the Expansión Jurídico awards

The Firm came away with a total of five awards.

28/04/2017 - Spain: a true alternative to doing business after Brexit

24/06/2016 - Uría Menéndez awarded in the first edition of the Expansión Legal Awards

Uría Menéndez received the award as best law firm in Corporate and M&A and as legal adviser in the deal of the year for the merger of the European bottlers of Coca-Cola.

08/03/2013 - Uría Menéndez, praised by the China Business Law Journal for its involvement in the “Banking and Finance deal of the year”

In its Deals of the Year report, the Asian journal commends the work of the firm as legal adviser of CDB and ICBC in the USD 1.2 billion financing of Telefónica, S.A.

06/02/2012 - Royal Decree-Law 2/2012 of 3 February, on the banking sector reform

Royal Decree-law 2/2012 of 3 February, on the banking sector reform, entered into force and was published in Spain’s State Official Gazette on 4 February 2012.

26/09/2011 - Uría Menéndez, awarded at the China Law & Practice Awards 2011 for its participation in the first acquisition of a controlling stake of electrical transmission lines by a foreign state-owned company

Uría Menéndez received acclaim for its role in the acquisition by State Grid Corporation of China of 3.200 km of electrical transmission lines in Brazil where it assisted a Spanish group of infrastructure companies.