Crowe Legal hires Manuel Calavia as commercial partner

Crowe Legal has hired Manuel Calavia (pictured) as a corporate partner in the firm’s Barcelona and Madrid offices. The lawyer, who was previously a partner at ETL Global, will drive the Crowe Legal’s corporate and M&A practice.

Calavia holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in business law from the same university, specialised in corporate law, M&A transactions and corporate restructuring.

He is also an associate lecturer in commercial law at the University of Barcelona and teaches the commercial law programme in the master’s degree in access to the legal profession organised by the University of Barcelona.

Calavia has years of experience in insolvency law, advising both debtors and their management bodies, as well as having been insolvency administrator appointed by the courts in more than 50 insolvency proceedings. He has also advised both national and international companies in a wide range of fields, but especially in the sectors of venture capital, tourism, real estate, family businesses and venture capital.