About the Office

Active in Spain for decades, Davis Polk established an office in Madrid in 2001 to better serve our extensive list of Spanish and international clients. Lawyers in our Madrid office work closely with their colleagues in New York and London on the full spectrum of corporate transactions involving Spanish and Latin American companies.

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Recognition

  • Davis Polk ranked in the 1st tier among U.S.- and U.K.-qualified law firms in Spanish banking and finance transactions, according to Chambers Global (2009) and Chambers Europe (2009): "Clients observe: 'It understands perfectly the mechanism of transactions in the Spanish market and how to co-ordinate all the international aspects involved.'"

Recent Matters

  • $20 billion U.S. commercial paper program by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., London branch
  • €7.2 billion SEC-registered underwritten rights offering of ordinary shares by Banco Santander, a group of banking and financial companies that operate through a network of offices and subsidiaries across Spain and other European and Latin American countries.
  • €3.85 billion ($5.44 billion) Rule 144A/Regulation S initial public offering of common stock of Criteria CaixaCorp, a Spanish subsidiary of Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona and part of “la Caixa” group, the third-largest financial group in Spain.
  • $3 billion Rule 144A offering of floating-rate senior notes by BBVA U.S. Senior, S.A. Unipersonal, a finance subsidiary of our client Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.

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