| News | July 2021 | The Firm promotes Fabio Virzi to partner and appoints Araceli Leyva as new general secretary |
Cases&Lacambra promotes Fabio Virzi to partner of the Litigation and Arbitration practice group in Spain with effect as from 1 July, and appoints Araceli Leyva as the Firm’s new general secretary.
Fabio Virzi will be a partner in the Firm’s Litigation and Arbitration practice based in Madrid. With more than 13 years of professional experience, he specialises in civil and commercial litigation and has extensive experience in matters related to obligations and contracts, non-contractual liability, unfair competition and directors’ liability, as well as litigation involving the construction and insurance sectors. The new partner is an expert in the field of national and international arbitration and has spent part of his professional career in the litigation departments of Uría Menéndez, Garrigues, Ontier and PwC.
Araceli Leyva, current of counsel, will become general secretary of the Firm, with full delegated executive functions. With more than 30 years of experience and an extensive professional career with responsibilities in different companies in the financial and banking sector, she is a specialist in corporate governance and a reference in financial and treasury operations. During her professional career she held different positions of responsibility in entities such as Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), Cecabank and the Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks. She is member of the Madrid Arbitration Tribunal and acts regularly as an arbitrator in banking and finance and other cases.
“The Firm is committed to talent and the best professionals in the market, which is fundamental to offer our clients a high quality comprehensive legal advice service“, state Miguel Cases and Ernesto Lacambra, co-managing partners of the Firm.
These new appointments represent a further step in the Firm’s development strategy and are aimed at strengthening the Madrid office and consolidating the Litigation and Arbitration practice in order to respond to growing client demand. In addition, the Firm promotes Laura Nieto as a new partner in the Financial Markets and Services practice in the jurisdiction of Andorra.