Competition/European Law
Europe Guide 2024 : Spain
Band 5
Contact number
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Provided by DLA Piper LLP
You can learn more about our practice at dlapiper.com.
Chambers Review
DLA Piper is a renowned international firm with a respected competition practice in Spain. The team undertakes cases within all areas of competition law, including competition filings for M&A or joint venture transactions. The law firm provides additional activity assisting clients with day-to-day regulatory competition advice, dawn raid policies and CNMC investigations. Its expertise extends to representing clients in follow-on damages claims and state aid cases.
Work Highlights
- DLA Piper acted for General Electric on the merger control and FDI aspects of its restructuring.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"DLA Piper's competition department has a strong capacity to handle complex matters, always with agility, innovative tools and great knowledge of the subject."
"The team has a very good approach to the business and problems and is very pragmatic. They understand what we are doing and our business and really give us answers and propose solutions that help us."
"We use DLA Piper for really complex issues."
"The service provided is of a high quality, both in the reports or documents the team prepares and in the always agile answers to questions."
"DLA Piper's competition department has a strong capacity to handle complex matters, always with agility, innovative tools and great knowledge of the subject."
"The team has a very good approach to the business and problems and is very pragmatic. They understand what we are doing and our business and really give us answers and propose solutions that help us."
"We use DLA Piper for really complex issues."
"The service provided is of a high quality, both in the reports or documents the team prepares and in the always agile answers to questions."
Notable Practitioners
Joaquín Hervada focuses his work on merger control and foreign direct investment procedures, as well as assisting clients with behavioural investigations, state aid mandates and follow-on damages litigation.
"Joaquín Hervada is able to manage issues of all levels of complexity, with great commercial vision in his work."
"For me, from a technical point of view he is outstanding. He is also really client- and business-oriented."
"We are asking pretty innovative and novel questions and there are so many limitations, and he is very good at this. He proposes alternatives and looks for solutions."