Uría Menéndez appoints five new partners and four counsels
Uría Menéndez announces the promotion of five new partners and four new counsels as of January 2026: Jorge Azagra Malo, Felipe Carbonell García and Olatz Ortega Espilla as partners in Spain; Tânia Luísa Faria and Gonçalo Reino Pires as partners in Portugal; and Joan Andreu Cortada, Mario Montes Santamaría, Miguel Moratinos López and Andrea Sandi Badiola as counsels in Spain.
Partners Spain
Jorge Azagra Malo
An international litigation and arbitration lawyer in Barcelona, his practice focuses on advising on contentious proceedings, both before Spanish courts and national and international arbitration tribunals, as well as on insolvency and restructuring matters. He is also an associate professor of civil law at Pompeu Fabra University and ESADE.
Felipe Carbonell García
A solicitor in the Madrid office, he regularly advises on M&A transactions and on corporate law and corporate governance issues for listed and unlisted companies. He also has experience in advising on venture capital and start-up transactions and corporate restructurings. He is a professor of commercial law at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).
Olatz Ortega Espilla
A solicitor in the Bilbao office, her professional practice covers advice on corporate law and corporate governance, M&A transactions, restructuring, contracting, asset sales (including real estate portfolios) and financing transactions.
Partners Portugal
Tânia Luísa Faria
A lawyer in the Lisbon office, she works on matters related to competition and EU law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominant position, state aid and private enforcement.
In recent years, she has led cases in the financial sector, the media sector, health, telecommunications, air transport, energy, tourism and the pharmaceutical sector. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Lisbon and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the same university.
Gonçalo Reino Pires
A planning lawyer in Lisbon, he has extensive experience in advising clients in the public and private sectors in the areas of urban planning, spatial planning and the environment. He advises on all areas of urban planning law in terms of planning instruments, administrative control of urban operations, urban and land restructuring operations, and environmental impact assessment.
Counsels
Joan Andreu Cortada
A real estate lawyer in Barcelona, his practice focuses on the sale, acquisition and financing of large real estate portfolios, management platforms, significant individual assets and development projects. He advises on complex asset or share purchase transactions, including forward purchases, forward funding and sale and lease backs. He also specialises in joint ventures with underlying real estate, leases, construction and real estate financing.
Mario Montes Santamaría
A corporate criminal lawyer in Barcelona, his practice focuses on defending corporate clients and their directors, executives and employees before the Spanish courts. He has extensive experience in proceedings for environmental offences and workplace accidents, as well as in industrial safety, offences related to public procurement, tax, technology and trade secrets. He also advises companies on internal investigations and crime prevention programmes.
Miguel Moratinos López
A solicitor in the Madrid office, he specialises in resolving all types of disputes in the field of private law and, in particular, construction disputes, corporate and post-M&A conflicts, and insolvency matters. He regularly appears before the civil courts and the main Spanish arbitration courts.
Andrea Sandi Badiola
A real estate lawyer in Madrid, she has extensive experience advising companies and investment funds on M&A transactions and joint ventures with a real estate component (hotels, residential and flex living buildings, offices, among others). She also regularly advises on the negotiation of asset exploitation contracts and the formalisation of contracts related to real estate development.
