Juan Ignacio Alonso Dregi joins Andersen with his team

Andersen has incorporated Juan Ignacio Alonso Dregi as a partner, who joins with his team to expand the capabilities of the corporate and m&a area in the Barcelona office. The firm thus adds four new professionals in the transactional area by also incorporating Jordi Albós, who joins as director, and Wenbo Zhou and Adrián Benito as associates.

Alonso Dregi holds a degree in Law from the CEU Abat Oliba University and has more than 25 years of professional experience in which he has advised many companies in mergers and acquisitions, in investments of Spanish companies in their internationalisation processes, as well as in the establishment of foreign companies in Spain. He has also participated in restructuring operations in various sectors, with particular experience in real estate, automotive and retail. Previously, he has developed his career in law firms such as Garrigues, Dentons or Ceca Magán.

In the academic field, he is coordinator and professor of the Master’s Degree in International Law, Foreign Trade and International Relations at ISDE, as well as the Master’s Degree in International Law at ISDE. He is also Honorary Consul of the Republic of Malta for Catalonia and Aragon.

José Vicente Morote and Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre, managing partners of Andersen in Iberia, highlighted that Juan Ignacio Alonso Dregi “has an extensive experience and recognition in the transactional area and he and his team are a great addition to the Firm in general and to the Barcelona office in particular, where we have set out an ambitious roadmap that aims to place us among the leading law firms in Catalonia”. Morote and Rodríguez-Sastre also stressed the commitment to the Corporate and M&A area, which is headed at national level by Ignacio Aparicio and Ivo Portabales and which has 18 partners and more than 60 professionals specialising in M&A, Corporate, Competition, Privacy, Intellectual and Industrial Property and Finance, “making it one of the key areas of the Firm to offer a comprehensive and highly specialised service in corporate transactions”.

The team

Jordi Albós, who joins as director, has a degree in Law from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and throughout his career has participated in major transactions in the real estate, industry, tourism and financial sectors.

Wenbo Zhou holds a degree in Law from the University of Salamanca and a double Master’s degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Tax Practice from the Centro de Estudios Garrigues, and Adrián Benito holds a double degree in Law and Business Administration from the University of Zaragoza and a Master’s degree in Corporate Legal Consultancy from the Instituto de Empresa.

Photo: José Vicente Morote, Juan Ignacio Alonso Dregi and Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre.

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