Andersen launches NewLaw with the incorporation of Silvia Perea as a partner

Andersen launches its new NewLaw area, integrated into the M&A Department. This new practice will be led by Silvia Perea, founder of Abroading, who joins the firm as a partner. Perea is accompanied by lawyers Fernando Garretón and Francisco Javier Pérez.

José Vicente Morote, Managing Partner of Andersen Iberia, points out that ‘the arrival of Silvia Perea improves and expands our value proposition to clients and confirms the firm’s commitment to innovation in legal advice’. He adds: ‘Silvia is one of the most recognised professionals in the field of ALSPs in the Spanish market; her knowledge and experience, combined with Andersen’s strength and capabilities, will enable us to offer a legal service that combines traditional and alternative approaches with high standards of quality and excellence’.

Silvia Perea

With more than 20 years of experience, Silvia Perea is recognised as one of the pioneers in the field of NewLaw or alternative legal services. In 2011, she founded Abroading, the first alternative legal services provider (ALSP) in Spain, a firm she has co-directed ever since.

With a degree in Law from the University of Navarra and specialising in Economic Law, Silvia Perea completed her training with a Master’s Degree in Real Estate and Construction Law at Pompeu Fabra University. She also has a degree in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Chile.

NewLaw area

Andersen’s NewLaw area focuses on meeting high value-added legal outsourcing needs, with intensive use of technology, and on the management of secondments, two services that are increasingly in demand by legal consultancies. This team will also provide support in contract management processes, due diligence, corporate secretarial services and other high-volume tasks that require efficient and strategic management.

Silvia Perea, Andersen’s new partner, emphasises that joining the firm ‘is an extraordinary opportunity to promote a model that combines the strength and global reach of a large firm with a more agile and flexible approach to the provision of legal services’. The NewLaw area, she continues, ‘will offer hybrid solutions, strategically designed to respond to the real needs of legal and business teams, with a firm commitment to purposeful technology, collaborative methodologies and operationally efficient structures.’