Fernando Navarro, new managing partner of White & Case

Change of management at White & Case Spain. Fernando Navarro becomes as of October 1st the new managing partner of the Madrid office, replacing Juan Manuel de Remedios, who will continue as partner and head of the M&A/Corporate Group in Spain.

Fernando Navarro

With more than 30 years of experience, Fernando Navarro is a partner in the EMEA Debt Finance team and head of the Madrid Debt Finance practice. His practice focuses on a wide variety of Spanish and English law financing transactions through syndicated and bilateral loans in the context of senior, super senior, mezzanine, PIK and second lien structures, acting for both lenders and borrowers.

With a particular focus on leveraged and acquisition finance, Fernando also has extensive experience in project finance, trade finance and asset finance.

White & Case

The firm is in a moment of transition, as the management of the firm was led by Juan Manuel de Remedios, with the help of Yoko Takagi, a partner who has left the firm to become the new Corporate and M&A partner at DLA Piper.

For several years now the firm has been committed to incorporating talent with the idea of becoming a large multidisciplinary firm. Ignacio Paz and Pablo García-Nieto joined in 2023 as M&A partners; José Antonio de la Calle, as partner and head of the competition area. The additions in 2022 of M&A partner Javier Monzón from Freshfields, debt finance partner Jaime Rossi from Herbert Smith Freehills and commercial litigation partner Francisco Málaga from Linklaters, as well as the promotion to partner of M&A lawyer Carlos Daroca in early 2023, are part of this investment in Madrid.

All of these appointments were part of the firm’s investment in Madrid as Oliver Brettle, a member of White & Case’s global Executive Committee, explained at the end of 2023.