Watson Farley & Williams promotes José María Anarte to partner

Watson Farley & Williams’ Madrid office has promoted José María Anarte to partner.

Anarte (pictured) specialises in project finance, with a particular focus on the energy, transport and infrastructure sectors. His clients include sponsors, banks, investment funds and institutional investors.

Anarte has been a senior associate at Watson Farley & Williams since 2015.

Prior to that he was an associate at Ashurst, where he spent the period 2003-15.

Anarte is one of eight Watson Farley & Williams’ lawyers promoted to partner across the firm’s offices worldwide.

Chris Lowe, Watson Farley & Williams’ London-based managing partner, said: “We have a fantastic group of dynamic lawyers joining the partnership this year, who span our Asian, European and North American offices as well as a wide range of service lines feeding into our core transport and energy sectors”.