People
Lara Ruiz
Biography
Lara advises on a wide range of restructuring, pre-insolvency, insolvency and security enforcement matters.
She has advised on some of the main restructuring and insolvency proceedings in Spain during the past years, including a number of cross-border transactions. She has also participated in the litigation phases of those proceedings in case of challenges to the judicial sanction of the restructuring plans or claw-back actions.
Lara works with major national and international clients across jurisdictions, including financial institutions, funds and large corporates, and in multiple sectors including financial services, real estate, media, retail and many more. Moreover, Lara is a member of the A&O Sherman Spanish Pro Bono Committee.
Practice areas
- Intellectual property
- Intellectual property litigation
- Patents
- Trade mark designs and copyright
- Trade secrets
- Disputes
- Restructuring insolvency and capital solutions
Selected experience
- Food Delivery Brands (Telepizza) in the restructuring of its financial indebtedness through the newly implemented Restructuring Plan, entered into with the majority of its creditors.
- Mediapro Group in the refinancing process of its debt and in the capital increase for 620 million euros, subscribed by Southwind Group, Grupo Mediapro's main shareholder.
- Farallon in the restructuring of the existing debt of Hoteles Marina d’Or through a Spanish scheme and subsequent challenge by minority creditors.
- Banco Santander in the restructuring of the financial indebtedness of the hotel group Grupo Rosa (including Princesa Yaiza).
- A major litigation fund in the insolvency proceedings of the Petersen entities.
Education
- Practise course on refinancing and restructuring law, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB), 2018
- LL.M and MBA Certificate, Business Administration, Instituto de Empresa, IE 2016
- Master degree, Needs and Rights of juvenile law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2015
- Law Degree, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, 2013
- Diploma, International Relationship, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, 2013
- Exchange Program of Law Degree, University of San Francisco, 2011
Admissions
- Spain, 2013
Languages
- Spanish
- English