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About

Provided by Uría Menéndez

Our multidisciplinary capabilities, extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry enable us to support clients faced with a complex regulatory framework, challenging market conditions and digitalisation programmes, and major changes to distribution channels. We tackle the legal and business issues that can arise when designing and executing corporate and financing transactions, along with regulatory and commercial strategy issues to reinforce market share, capital position and commercial performance.

Our team is made up of expert lawyers who handle all legal aspects of insurance and reinsurance in litigation and commercial, tax, employment, data protection, administrative and competition law.

Our profound understanding of the sector and litigation capabilities enable us to advise policyholders, insurers, and insurance and reinsurance companies in all types of pre-litigious proceedings and litigation.

Chambers Review

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Insurance - Spain

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Uría Menéndez rises a tier thanks to considerable market support. The team leverages strong ties to the banking sector to attract instructions on significant bancassurance and M&A mandates. It advises on the restructuring of multinational insurance groups, including cross-border mergers involving a number of European jurisdictions. Its lawyers are experienced in advising on the formation and dissolution of joint ventures. The law firm also acts on terminations of agreements between insurance alliances as well as major acquisitions. The team also acts for claimants against insurers in civil liability proceedings.

Work Highlights

Provided by Uría Menéndez

  • Uría Menéndez represented CaixaBank in the arbitration proceedings brought by Mapfre Vida and Mapfre España following the termination of the life and non-life bancassurance alliance between Bankia (absorbed by CaixaBank) and Mapfre.

Strengths

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"The Uría Menéndez team offers a huge depth of knowledge and industry expertise."

Insurance respondent
Europe

"I would highlight their immensely high knowledge of the sector and its regulation, from all different angles: contractual, regulatory, transactional."

Insurance respondent
Europe

"They have business acumen and a full picture of the deal."

Insurance respondent
Europe

"The lawyers have solved even the most sophisticated matters we have presented."

Insurance respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Guillermo San Pedro
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Guillermo San Pedro
1
Band 1

Guillermo San Pedro is highly esteemed for his expertise in complex domestic and cross-border M&A, bancassurance mandates and restructuring processes.

"Guillermo not only helped us with the legal perspective but also with the project's strategy. He added value and for the most difficult questions. He solved it."

"Guillermo is an outstanding lawyer. He is hard-working, meticulous and has a thorough understanding of the overall deal."

"He is capable of resolving difficult negotiations and always provides great legal advice about existing legal risks and how to mitigate them, which is added value at the hour of decision-making."

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Jaime del Fraile
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Jaime del Fraile
U
Up and Coming

Counsel Jaime del Fraile is well regarded for assisting with domestic and cross-border M&A, corporate restructuring and insurance product distribution agreements. He is involved in significant bancassurance mandates.

"He is very efficient."

"Jaime is committed."

"He can summarise complicated clauses and negotiations. He is very meticulous, detail-oriented and easy to work with."

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Uría Menéndez

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Guillermo San Pedro
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Guillermo San Pedro
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Band 1
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Jaime del Fraile
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Jaime del Fraile
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Up and Coming
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