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Luis Alonso and Jaime Almenar receive the 2019 Client Choice award

14 February 2019

Luis Alonso and Jaime Almenar receive the 2019 Client Choice award

Luis Alonso and Jaime Almenar have been honoured with the 2019 Client Choice award for the best lawyer in Spain for, respectively, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and Public Law. Since 2005, the International Law Office (ILO) has held the Client Choice awards, which recognise the excellence and quality of legal advice from nominations made exclusively by clients.

Luis Alonso, partner of the Corporate team, and winner of this award for three consecutive years, joined Clifford Chance in 2004 and specialises in public and private M&A, joint ventures and restructurings, regularly advising both corporates and funds. Amongst his most recent transactions stands out his advice to (i) ACS, on its joint venture with Atlantia and takeover bid for Abertis, (ii) Via Célere, on the acquisition and subsequent merger with Aelca, (iii) Airbus, on the sale of CESA, (iv) DIA, on the sale of its Chinese business to Suning, and (v) Abanca, on the acquisition of the Portuguese retail business of Deutsche Bank Portugal.

Jaime Almenar is the Head of the Public Law practice of Clifford Chance in Spain, and previously served as a State Lawyer and Secretary to the Board of the Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission. He has experience in all areas related to the public and regulated sectors in Spain, specialising in energy regulation, telecommunications, financial regulation, public procurement and environmental law. He regularly advises both Spanish and international corporations such as Santander, Iberdrola, Endesa, British Telecom and Airbus.

Luis and Jaime commented: "We are really grateful for this recognition, which simply evidences the fantastic work done by our transactional team all these years."