Pérez-Llorca has expanded the team at its London office, headed by Álvaro Ramírez de Haro, and where Ander Valverde is the partner in charge of the Banking and Finance practice, covering both Madrid and London. The team has been strengthened with the addition of a partner and a counsel from the firm’s Madrid office, namely José Luis Romeu, Corporate/M&A partner, and Isabel Villa, Banking and Finance counsel and expert in debt restructuring, who are already based at the firm’s premises in the British capital’s Mayfair district.
Romeu and Villa join the partners already established in London, Álvaro Ramírez de Haro and Ander Valverde, and together they make up a team of ten professionals from different practice areas and specialities such as Corporate, Private Equity, M&A, Banking and Finance, and Restructuring.
The strengthening of Pérez-Llorca’s UK office is a response to the momentum of the firm’s international strategy led by Iván Delgado as International Executive Partner. Pérez-Llorca has five offices outside Spain. In addition to London, the firm is present in New York, Brussels, Singapore and Lisbon, covering the world’s three financial capitals, Europe’s regulatory capital and the Iberian Peninsula’s two capitals, as well as Barcelona.
José Luis Romeu joined Pérez-Llorca in 2017 as a lawyer in the Corporate practice and made partner in January 2024. Specialising in commercial law, his career has a strong international flavour as, in addition to an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law from Georgetown University, he worked in the firm’s London office in 2019 and 2020 and is also a Solicitor of England and Wales. Since joining the firm, he has advised domestic and foreign clients on all types of commercial transactions, and in particular on major M&A and private equity transactions, creation and dissolution of joint ventures and restructurings. He is recognised by Legal 500 for the practice of Private Equity.
Isabel Villa joined Pérez-Llorca’s Banking and Finance team as counsel in 2022 after working in the Madrid office of an international firm. With a degree in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, she boasts ample experience in structuring and executing various types of financing transactions, including corporate financings, leveraged buy-outs (LBOs), real estate financings and debt refinancing and restructuring transactions.
In addition, the firm has recently completed the expansion and renovation of its London and New York offices. The aim of these expansions is to increase the capacity and coverage of both offices to accommodate more professionals and to support the firm’s international strategy.
In London, the firm has expanded its office by renting an additional floor of the building at 17 Hill Street in Mayfair, where it moved in 2021 to be closer to the international funds with whom the firm regularly works.
In New York, the firm has doubled its floor space in the iconic Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue.