DLA Piper adds Itxaso López as partner to the real estate team
DLA Piper has hired Itxaso López as a partner in its real estate department in Madrid. The move, announced on 21 April 2026, adds a practitioner with more than 20 years of experience advising international investors on national and multi-jurisdictional real estate transactions to the firm’s Spanish practice.
López joins from Dentons, where she had been a partner since 2022. A graduate of the Universidad de Deusto, her practice covers the acquisition, financing and development of asset classes including offices, logistics warehouses, hotels, shopping centres, residential assets and land for development, with particular expertise in urban planning, asset management and construction. In recent years she has also played an active role in European ESG initiatives within the real estate legal sector.
She is a member of Women in Real Estate Spain (WIRES) and Women in a Legal World (WLW), where she participates in mentoring programmes and working groups focused on advancing female talent in the legal sector. Since 2025 she has taught international students on the Master in Real Estate Development programme at the IE School of Architecture and Design.
Leadership commentary
José María Oliva, partner and head of real estate in Spain at DLA Piper, said that her experience in complex domestic and cross-border transactions, combined with her strategic market vision, aligns with the firm’s growth ambitions and technical standards, and that her arrival would strengthen the practice’s ability to support clients on the most sophisticated real estate challenges in the market.
