IFLR1000 Reviews

Financial and corporate

Founded in 1927, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo is a law and tax firm which has offices in Madrid and Barcelona where over 100 legal professionals work. It used to be called Melchor de las Heras but in 2002 changed its name to Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. In 2005 it joined CMS, a law and tax firm consisting of 17 independent firms with more than 70 offices worldwide. 

 

Focusses / specialisms 

The firm is active across all areas of corporate law. It advises financial institutions, private equity firms and insurers on banking and M&A deals. 

It advises clients from various industries, including food and beverages, consumer products, automotive, telecommunications, logistics, infrastructure, retail sectors and, most notably, the energy sector. 

In restructuring and insolvency, it advised mostly debtors and creditors on insolvencies, bankruptcies and corporate restructurings. 

 
Key clients 

Among its clients are Chamartín La Grela and Inmobiliaria Chamartín, Grupo ITEK, Haitong Bank and Novo Banco, Grupo Casabella Proyectos Inmobiliarios, Northland Power, Macquarie Capital, Eni, E2OPEN Parent Holdings, Schroders, Northland Power, Pradera and Universal-Investment, and Global Student Accommodation.  

 

Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023) 

Banking 

"Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo's team has provided us with quality legal advice and has proven to know perfectly the sector of activity in which our company is focused. In this way, having their support has been very useful, since they have perfectly understood our needs and the market standard in which we operate in the transactions we used to carry out." 

 

Bank lending 

"Really proactive on finding solutions during the negothiation but keeping the black lines in place."