Práticas e Setores

• Corporate Governance
• Corporate/M&A
• Critérios ESG e Regulamentação das Alterações Climáticas
• Mercado de Capitais
• Private Equity

Profile

Javier Gómez joined Pérez-Llorca in 2009 and was made Partner in January 2018. Since February 2021, Javier has been Resident Partner at Pérez-Llorca’s New York office.

Prior to joining Pérez-Llorca, he worked at the Hong Kong-based French law firm, Thomas, Mayer & Associés, where he was in charge of legal advice to European companies interested in Hong Kong and China. Earlier in his career, he spent a year working in the investment department of the Trade Commission of the Spanish Embassy in Mexico.

Studies:

• 2006 Master’s degree in International Business Administration (ICEX), Centre of Studies for Economy and Trade, CECO, Madrid
• 2005 Degree in Law and Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

He speaks Spanish, English and French.

Experience

Javier Gómez is an expert in Corporate law. Javier’s main area of expertise is mergers and acquisitions, of both listed and unlisted companies and industrial companies and investment funds.

Javier also has extensive experience in capital markets transactions, including listings, public offers and capital increases for listed companies. Additionally, Javier advises listed companies on matters of corporate governance.

Academic and Publishing Collaborations

Javier regularly writes and contributes to articles for specialist legal press as well as for financial press. He also lectures for the Master’s degree in Business Legal Advice at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid as well as for the Master’s degree for Access to the Legal Profession and the Master’s degree in Regulated Sectors at the same university. He also lectures for the Master’s degree for Access to the Legal Profession at ICADE and the Degree in Law at ISDE.

Professional Organisations

The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).

Recognition

Javier Gómez features in various legal directories such as:

• Chambers Global: Capital Markets (Expert abroad – USA).
• IFLR 1000: Rising Star Partner (Capital Markets Equity, M&A).
• Leaders League: Capital Markets 2022.
• Best Lawyers®: Corporate and M&A Law, Private Equity Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice and Venture Capital.

Awards

• Iberian Lawyer: 40 under Forty ‘Lawyer of the Year’ M&A (2020).