José Carles

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

José Carles is a founding and co-managing partner at Spain-based CARLES | CUESTA Abogados, where he co-leads the business recovery, restructuring and insolvency practice and specializes in cross-border restructurings.

José also leads the insolvency-related litigation and international M&A practice.

Career

José worked in UBS Investment Bank (London) and in Garrigues (Madrid).

An international speaker, Mr Carles has been a professor in restructuring and insolvency law at ICADE’s LLM programs since 2013. He earned an executive Master’s in Business Law from Harvard Law School and Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

Professional Memberships

Mr Carles is co-chair of INSOL Europe’s legal tech & digital assets wing

One of the six-member advisory committee to the insolvency wing of Madrid’s Bar association (ICAM).

INSOL International, American Bankruptcy Institute, International Insolvency Institute.

Publications

Over 30 publications on insolvency law.

Personal

First non-American honoured by the American Bankruptcy Institute as one of the 40 top insolvency professionals under age 40 (ABI’s 40 under 40, 2019).

In 2020, the International Insolvency Institute named José as one of 15 rising stars within its NextGen program.

Global leader in Restructuring, Insolvency, Litigation and Iberia (Spain/Portugal) by WWL (2020, 2021).

Names to Know in Spain 2020 (GRR).

Languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Catalan and Hebrew.