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Borja Vázquez Vázquez

Counsel

Contact
CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo
Paseo de Recoletos 7–9
28004 Madrid
Spain
Languages Spanish, English

Borja Vázquez holds the role of Counsel within the Markets and Financial Services department of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, joining the team in 2023 from a major international law firm in which he spent a large part of his career.

He was also a secondee in the legal department for one of the main international financial institutions operating in Spain.

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Relevant experience

Borja has extensive experience in providing advice on banking and finance law, having participated in all kinds of financing, refinancing, and restructuring transactions, as well as in project finance transactions across different areas, particularly in real estate and infrastructure, acting as both advisor to the financing entities and to the financed entities and sponsors. He has also advised creditors and debtors in debt restructuring transactions of some of Spain's leading companies and has noteworthy expertise in the sale and purchase of non-strategic assets of financial institutions, including non-performing loans, real estate assets and management platforms.

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Memberships & Roles

Member of the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM) since 2004

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Education

  • 2007 - Master of Laws (LL.M), specialising in International Business Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
  • 2005 – Preparation of the Spanish Civil Service Examinations for the Real Estate and Property Registrar’s Corps.
  • 2004 – Graduate of Law (E-1), specialising in Business Law, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), Madrid, Spain.
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12/10/2023
Spain: New reporting requirements for intra-group loans
Much has been written about the well-known Royal Decree 571/2023 of 4 July on foreign investment and the State's veto authority to limit certain foreign investments in Spain. However, said Royal Decree...
11/10/2023
New reporting requirements for intra-group loans
Much has been written about the well-known Royal Decree 571/2023 of 4 July on foreign investment and the State's veto authority to limit certain foreign investments in Spain. However, said Royal Decree...