Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo integrates with Pajares y Asociados and arrives in Zaragoza

Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo has opened its first office in Zaragoza thanks to the integration of the firm Pajares y Asociados. With this action, the international law firm expands its business to the Aragonese capital from where it will provide services in the areas of commercial, bankruptcy, tax and civil law, among others.

Image: Jose Pajares, managing partner of the Restructuring and Insolvency Law department within Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Abogados and Javier Cremades, president and founder of Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Abogados.

With this agreement, the new office opened in Zaragoza becomes the second most important office of the firm in Spain after the Madrid office. In this way, José Pajares, current senior partner of Pajares y Asociados, becomes the managing partner of the Restructuring and Insolvency Law department within Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Abogados.

After this integration, this important law firm arrives in Zaragoza with the firm intention of settling in the Aragonese capital at a time of business growth in the city that they consider ‘perfect’ to increase their activity and presence within the most important locations of the Spanish geography.

This important law firm expands its territory and areas of specialization by acquiring this firm, which has a recognized trajectory, among other areas, in commercial and corporate law, bankruptcy and civil law. The firm also handles some important international matters.

The firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo was created at the end of the 90s. It currently has physical offices in the main Spanish cities and in eight different countries, such as France, Israel, Argentina and Mexico. Its more than 100 professionals include lawyers of more than 15 different nationalities. They have worked in well-known cases such as the ‘Madoff Case’, with the platform ‘Affected by the Coronavirus’ or being in charge of auditing abuse cases for the Episcopal Conference. In addition, Javier Cremades is currently president of the World Jurist Association.

For its part, the firm Pajares y Asociados has more than 60 years of experience working in the sector and is an important and historical reference, not only in the Aragonese capital and Madrid, where its two offices are located, but also at an international level. They are specialists in the restructuring, refinancing and reorganization of companies. With their extensive experience they have won some of the most important awards in the world of law, such as ‘Global Law Experience’ or ‘Legal Awards’.

Next Thursday, November 2, this agreement will be ratified through a formal signing that will take place in Zaragoza. The event will be attended by lawyers Javier Cremades and José Pajares, among other members of the legal community.