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Provided by Uría Menéndez
Transport, logistics and mobility form the backbone of the current economic, social and business environment. The result is a dynamic and complex regulatory framework that requires an all-encompassing approach to legal advice and transactional support.
Our multidisciplinary and versatile team knows how to design and implement regulatory and financing structures, execute corporate and infrastructure transactions, and manage risks in the maritime, aviation, rail, logistics and urban-mobility sectors of the main Ibero-American markets.
We handle both transactions and litigation:
- M&A.
- Financing.
- Port infrastructure.
- International sales of godos.
- Mobility.
- Contentious-administrative proceedings.
- Admiralty litigation.
- Yachts.
We support the main players in the sector:
- Banks.
- Funds.
- Shipping, aviation and rail companies.
- Logistics operators.
- Ports: cargo-handling and passenger terminals, consignors, other service providers and port authorities.
- Technology companies.
- Other companies involved in the urban-mobility sector.
Chambers Review
The team at Uría Menéndez is well placed to handle tax lease structures for the construction and acquisition of vessels and is also highly active in the refinancing of debt due to shipbuilding projects. Furthermore, the firm has a proven track record in shipping mortgages, assisting with floating ship mortgages and novation structures. The refinancing of shipping operations also falls within the firm's expertise. In addition to national and international banks as well as investment funds, Uría Menéndez counts shipping companies and owners among its clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Responsiveness, flexibility and knowledge of the local market are reasons we continue to work with Uría Menéndez."
"Uría Menéndez has a great capacity for work and knowledge."
"Responsiveness, flexibility and knowledge of the local market are reasons we continue to work with Uría Menéndez."
"Uría Menéndez has a great capacity for work and knowledge."
Notable Practitioners
Top-ranked Carlos López-Quiroga impresses with his expertise across the full range of shipping finance mandates, including construction-incurred debt refinancings, ship construction financing and vessel acquisitions as well as tax lease schemes.
"Carlos López-Quiroga has very good negotiation skills, is very responsive, always reachable and he is the one with the most knowledge. He is very experienced in the shipping industry."
"Carlos López-Quiroga is an excellent lawyer and a great guy to work with."
Luz Martínez de Azcoitia regularly assists with the refinancing of debt incurred by ship construction and also handles tax lease schemes and loan agreements.
"It is easy working with her."
"She was always very good technically."
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Uría Menéndez
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