Experience
Partner of the Financial and Banking Law department in the Barcelona office.
She joined the firm in 2014 after seven years at Caja Madrid (now Caixabank) as head of Corporate Banking Legal Services within the Business Division for Cataluña and Aragón. Prior to this, from 2005 to 2007, she worked in the Banking Practice of the law firm Jiménez de Parga Abogados.
She has extensive experience in advising both companies and financial institutions in syndicated or bilateral structured finance transactions, bank debt refinancing, restructuring processes and pre-insolvency situations, project finance (energy, real estate and infrastructure sectors), national and international corporate finance transactions, financing of acquisitions, asset financing, financing of public sector and capital markets. She also provides real estate and financial advice to the development sector.
She also advises financial institutions, investment services companies, regulated entities and management companies on various issues related to banking regulation and the securities market. He also has extensive experience in advising funds, alternative financing, participatory financing platforms and financial intermediaries in general.
She also has extensive knowledge of sales and acquisitions, mergers, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, family businesses and corporate and contract law in general.
Education
- Programme “Mujeres Directivas en Consejos de Administración” (“Female Directors on Boards of Directors”) Corporate Governance, Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), 2019.
- PhD in Law, Universidad de Barcelona, 2017. Thesis on “La prenda de créditos futuros” (“The pledging of future claims”). Grade: Outstanding cum laude.
- PhD in Law. Diploma in Advanced Studios (Research Proficiency), 2008.
- Degree in Business Administration and Management, with Special Award, Universidad de Barcelona (completing part of her studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, with honourable mention for academic performance in The National Dean’s List), 2005.
- Degree in Law, Universidad de Barcelona, 2005.
Teaching
Since 2011 she has been Associate Professor of the Private Law Department of the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU.
She gives classes in Commercial Law on the Degree in Business Administration and Management, in Civil Law on the Degree in Criminology and in Bank Contracts and Pre-Insolvency Law on the Master’s Degree in Admission to the Bar. She also collaborates as supervisor of Final Projects of the Degree in Law and Master’s Degree in Admission to the Bar, and regularly participates as a panel member of the Final Projects Examining Boards of the Degree and Master’s Degree of the same university.
From 2009 to 2014 she worked for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as a consultant in Civil Law.
Publications
- La prenda de créditos futuros (The pledging of future claims). Aranzadi, 2018. Colletion Monografías Aranzadi (404 p.).
- “La prenda de derechos de crédito. Especial referencia a los derechos de crédito futuros” (“The pledging of receivables. Special reference to future receivables”), in VV.AA., Derecho de la empresa y de los mercados financieros. Aranzadi, Pamplona, 2016.
- “Introducción al Derecho Mercantil” (“An introduction to Commercial Law”), in VV.AA., CORTÉS PACHECO, C. AND GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN BERINI, A. (Coord.), Introducción al Derecho, Parte General y Parte Especial, Dykinson, Madrid, 2015.
- “El dret de penyora” (“Security interests”), in VV.AA., LUCAS ESTEVE, A. (Dir.), Dret Civil Català, Vol. IV (2), Drets reals, Bosch Editor, Barcelona, 2014.
Affiliations
Member of the Barcelona Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona).
Languages
Elena Tarragona
Elena Tarragona
Experience
Partner of the Financial and Banking Law department in the Barcelona office.
She joined the firm in 2014 after seven years at Caja Madrid (now Caixabank) as head of Corporate Banking Legal Services within the Business Division for Cataluña and Aragón. Prior to this, from 2005 to 2007, she worked in the Banking Practice of the law firm Jiménez de Parga Abogados.
She has extensive experience in advising both companies and financial institutions in syndicated or bilateral structured finance transactions, bank debt refinancing, restructuring processes and pre-insolvency situations, project finance (energy, real estate and infrastructure sectors), national and international corporate finance transactions, financing of acquisitions, asset financing, financing of public sector and capital markets. She also provides real estate and financial advice to the development sector.
She also advises financial institutions, investment services companies, regulated entities and management companies on various issues related to banking regulation and the securities market. He also has extensive experience in advising funds, alternative financing, participatory financing platforms and financial intermediaries in general.
She also has extensive knowledge of sales and acquisitions, mergers, shareholders’ agreements, investment agreements, family businesses and corporate and contract law in general.
Education
- Programme “Mujeres Directivas en Consejos de Administración” (“Female Directors on Boards of Directors”) Corporate Governance, Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), 2019.
- PhD in Law, Universidad de Barcelona, 2017. Thesis on “La prenda de créditos futuros” (“The pledging of future claims”). Grade: Outstanding cum laude.
- PhD in Law. Diploma in Advanced Studios (Research Proficiency), 2008.
- Degree in Business Administration and Management, with Special Award, Universidad de Barcelona (completing part of her studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, with honourable mention for academic performance in The National Dean’s List), 2005.
- Degree in Law, Universidad de Barcelona, 2005.
Teaching
Since 2011 she has been Associate Professor of the Private Law Department of the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU.
She gives classes in Commercial Law on the Degree in Business Administration and Management, in Civil Law on the Degree in Criminology and in Bank Contracts and Pre-Insolvency Law on the Master’s Degree in Admission to the Bar. She also collaborates as supervisor of Final Projects of the Degree in Law and Master’s Degree in Admission to the Bar, and regularly participates as a panel member of the Final Projects Examining Boards of the Degree and Master’s Degree of the same university.
From 2009 to 2014 she worked for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as a consultant in Civil Law.
Publications
- La prenda de créditos futuros (The pledging of future claims). Aranzadi, 2018. Colletion Monografías Aranzadi (404 p.).
- “La prenda de derechos de crédito. Especial referencia a los derechos de crédito futuros” (“The pledging of receivables. Special reference to future receivables”), in VV.AA., Derecho de la empresa y de los mercados financieros. Aranzadi, Pamplona, 2016.
- “Introducción al Derecho Mercantil” (“An introduction to Commercial Law”), in VV.AA., CORTÉS PACHECO, C. AND GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN BERINI, A. (Coord.), Introducción al Derecho, Parte General y Parte Especial, Dykinson, Madrid, 2015.
- “El dret de penyora” (“Security interests”), in VV.AA., LUCAS ESTEVE, A. (Dir.), Dret Civil Català, Vol. IV (2), Drets reals, Bosch Editor, Barcelona, 2014.
Affiliations
Member of the Barcelona Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona).