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About

Provided by Uría Menéndez

We provide legal advice and transactional support to the main players in the real estate sector, delivering solutions that align with their business objectives and encompass the design, implementation and execution of their projects.

Our in-depth understanding of our clients’ activities and objectives, excellent knowledge of the law and the market, creativity and capacity to organise multidisciplinary teams enable us to offer alternative solutions for real estate and planning transactions.

We work with the main players in the real estate market (investment funds, asset managers and local partners, real estate investment trusts and owners of all types of assets, real estate developers and banks) to design and implement their projects:

- Sale, purchase and assignment of credit and property portfolios.
- Sale and purchase via asset deals and share deals and leasing of all types of trophy assets (residential, commercial, hotels, industrial, logistical, offices and land).
- Real estate financing.
- Development, construction and turnkey contracts.
- Joint ventures to develop real estate projects.
- Distressed real estate.

Chambers Review

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Planning - Spain

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Uría Menéndez is a stellar firm that draws on the reputations of highly regarded individuals in Madrid to attract instructions on planning matters across Spain. The firm possesses a strong real estate practice and is well equipped to advise on the due diligence of real estate acquisitions, including those targeting logistics or healthcare assets. The team has won instructions from developers of major urban regeneration or residential projects on the defence of proceedings that challenge the validity of existing planning approvals. It also handles contentious and non-contentious matters on behalf of compensation boards that are responsible for major urban developments in Madrid.

Work Highlights

Provided by Uría Menéndez

  • Uría Menéndez advised Renault on its obtainment of the permits required for the reorganisation of the plots that make up its car factory in Valladolid.

Strengths

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"Uría Menéndez's work is completed in alignment with the commercial interests of their clients and is always of the best quality standards."

Planning respondent
Europe

"The team at Uría Menéndez are thorough and have a global and strategic vision of the issues before them."

Planning respondent
Europe

"Uría Menéndez are fully aware of their clients' needs, as the team is made up of professionals who specialise in all areas of the law and have great business vision."

Planning respondent
Europe

"The lawyers at Uría Menéndez are always reliable, available and committed. Whenever we work with them we are highly satisfied with their services."

Planning respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Felipe Iglesias González
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Felipe Iglesias González
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Eminent Practitioners

Eminent practitioner Felipe Iglesias González is a professor and a consultant working with some of Uría Menéndez's most important clients on matters that require high-level input.

"Mr Iglesias has shown exceptional skill in handling the drafting of the new land law of the community of Madrid, demonstrating his knowledge of urban planning law."

"With his breadth of contacts, Felipe is a benchmark in Madrid urbanism."

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Antonio Gómez Cid
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Antonio Gómez Cid
1
Band 1

Antonio Gómez Cid has a longstanding reputation as one of Spain's most high-profile planning law experts. He represents blue-chip clients in a variety of planning mandates in Madrid and beyond.

"Antonio understands how to adapt himself to the needs of his clients."

"Antonio is always very committed and provides great insights into complex problems. It is a pleasure working with him. He is a great and very reliable lawyer."

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Héctor Nogués Galdón
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Héctor Nogués Galdón
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Band 4

Based in Valencia, Héctor Nogués Galdón leads the firm's practice in the city and other regions of Spain. He regularly advises clients on plot acquisitions for real estate development purposes.

"Héctor is a great, hard-working professional who is one of the best experts in Valencian urbanism."

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Uría Menéndez

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Felipe Iglesias González
E
Felipe Iglesias González
E
Eminent Practitioners
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Antonio Gómez Cid
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Antonio Gómez Cid
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Band 1
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Héctor Nogués Galdón
4
Héctor Nogués Galdón
4
Band 4
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