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40 under F orty A wards 2017
Winners
Juan Garicano, Hogan Lovells
Garicano is counsel at Hogan Lovells. He joined
the firm in 2010 with the task of expanding its
international tax practice. Garicano set up, and leads,
a cross-border team of senior tax lawyers from the
firm´s offices in Spain, the UK, the US, Mexico and
Venezuela to co-ordinate advice in Latin America.
In his time at Hogan Lovells, he has structured
investments worth more than €52 billion. Garicano
advised on the corporate restructuring of a major oil
and gas company valued at more than €40 billion,
as well as advising Sura Asset Management on the
$3.6 billion acquisition and restructuring of a pension
and insurance business operating in Chile, Colombia,
Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
Lucia Goy Mastromiechele, Goy Gentile
Abogados
Goy Mastromiechele is managing partner of Goy
Gentile Abogados. After qualification, she worked
in Davis Polk & Wardwell and Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom, in New York, London, Brussels and
Madrid. While at Skadden in New York, she became a
senior associate at the age of 27 – managing teams of
junior associates and was made head of the mentoring
programme for her department. At the age of 29, Goy
Mastromiechele moved back to Madrid to launch Goy
Gentile, a boutique law firm focusing on taxation,
inheritance and real estate law. She currently manages
a team of six professionals handling tax matters for
Spanish and international clients.
Luis Alonso, Clifford Chance
Luis Alonso became a partner at Clifford Chance
in 2016 aged 36. He joined the firm’s corporate and
M&A department in 2004. He was seconded to the
firm´s London office in 2007 where he qualified as
English solicitor. In addition to handling financial
sector transactions, Alonso also coordinates the firm´s
TMT group in Spain. He acted for WiZink bank on
its acquisition of the Iberian business of Barclaycard
and for NTT Data on its purchase
of Everis. Alonso is
also responsible for
conducting annual
performance reviews
of the associates in the
corporate and M&A
team in Madrid.
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Rodrigo Martos
Prat, GMQ
Abogados
Rodrigo Martos Prat is
a founding partner, and
leader of the corporate
M&A practice, at GMQ
Abogados in Madrid.
GMQ Abogados is a
boutique firm founded
in 2007, with these
key areas of practice:
corporate M&A/restructuring and dispute resolution/
insolvency. Martos Prat’s team includes one senior
associate, two associates and several trainees. It was
recommended for corporate M&A by Chambers
Europe Guide 2016 due to its participation in a
number of major deals involving multinational
companies in Spain in recent years. Significant work
included corporate restructurings and insolvencies,
as well as advising major investment funds such as
Aurelius AG, Quantum Capital Partners, Atena Equity
Partners and Explorer Investments.
Martos Prat claims the firm’s success has been due
to its ability to win the trust of its clients. “Setting-up
a new firm focused on sophisticated middle-market
clients has required the ability to build trust with
clients one by one,” he explains. “We are proud of
having managed to combine legal specialisation with
direct high-quality partner services that have allowed
us to achieve an incredibly high retention ratio with
our clients”.
International network
The “high-quality partner services” referred to by
Martos Prat have involved the development of an
international non-exclusive network of independent
local law firms to advise clients on international
transactions. Clients include multinationals,
family-owned businesses, private equity funds,
and financial institutions, he says. Martos Prat
highlights one particularly active area of practice.
“I have been very active in acquisitions of assets in
special situations for restructuring – this requires a
specialised multidisciplinary team to provide advice
that combines corporate M&A, anti-trust, public
law, labour restructuring,
compliance, and insolvency
to achieve success in the
acquisition and the subsequent
running of the acquired assets”.
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