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RCD incorporates Jesús Estévez as a partner of the banking & finance area

Elia Lizarraga, Grazziella González, María Fandiño i Jesús Estévez Elia Lizarraga, Grazziella González, María Fandiño i Jesús Estévez

Jesús has extensive experience in advising on financial matters, especially in operations and financial transactions of various types, including corporate finance, asset finance, and project finance, as well as restructuring and refinancing. With this incorporation, the firm consolidates its focus on a strategic area with a key hire

RCD, a law firm of reference, takes another step forward in its growth strategy and focus on the best talent with the incorporation of Jesús Estévez as a new partner of the Banking&Finance Area.

Jesús is specialised in providing advice on the financial matters and, more specifically, in operations and financial transactions of various types, including corporate finance, asset finance, and project finance, as well as restructuring and refinancing. Additionally, he has a relevant specialisation in structured asset finance operations and extensive experience in the financing of vessels, aircrafts, projects in the energy sector, R&D, and the media industry.

Recognised by Chambers&Partners as one of the leading lawyers in Spain in his speciality, the new RCD partner has a Law Degree from the University of Vigo and a Master's Degree in International Banking and Finance Law from the London School of Economics (LSE). Before his incorporation in RCD, Estévez advanced in his career in various international law firms. Jesús joins RCD alongside a team of professionals formed by María Fandiño, Grazziella González y Elia Lizarraga.

This new hire is part of the firm's growth strategy in strategic areas. In the words of Adolf Rousaud, Co-Managing Partner and Head of the Corporate&Commercial Area of RCD: "Incorporating a professional with a profile like Jesús's reinforces the firm's talent attraction philosophy and consolidates our focus on growth in the transactional area of the firm, along with the recent incorporations of Ignacio Aragón and Francisco Esteban”.

For his part, Ignasi Costas, Co-Managing Partner of RCD, states: "With the incorporation of Jesús, we're adding talent to one of the departments that we consider to be most strategic for our growth. It fills us with satisfaction to be able to count on him and his team, and expand our value proposition for our clients”.

In turn, Jesús Estévez has said: "Joining RCD, a firm with which I share both vision and values, is a privilege that I'll take on with the greatest excitement and with the firm objective of contributing to its growth and positioning in the financial sector”.