Jones Day promotes Cristina de Andrés Blanco to of counsel

Jones Day has promoted Cristina de Andrés Blanco to real estate of counsel in the Madrid office.

Cristina de Andrés Blanco

Cristina de Andrés focuses on the real estate sector in Spain. She has extensive experience advising national and international companies, as well as public administrations, on real estate matters related to urban planning, development and management, environmental projects, and in the regularization of public assets such as that of the SEPES (government land management agency) entity.

Cristina advises on all types of transactions involving real estate assets, financing, cross-border real estate funds, joint ventures, and other investment vehicles.

Much of Cristina’s work in the last several years has focused on the logistics and commercial real estate sectors that includes representing CBRE Global Investors in its formation of a joint venture with Montepino to develop a portfolio of prime assets in key locations in Spain and in its acquisition of a stake in the H2O Rivas Shopping Centre in Madrid, Spain and representing Greystar Real Estate Partners in its joint venture with AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets in its acquisition of a portfolio of 37 student residences in Spain (33 in operation and four under development) owned by the RESA Group (the Spanish market leader in student accommodation), the largest investment operation in student housing on the Iberian Peninsula to date.

New of counsels in Madrid, Mexico City and São Paulo

In addition to admitting 51 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, which included two in Latin America and Spain, Jones Day also announced that three lawyers in Latin America and Spain have been promoted to of counsel.