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E-mail: araceli.leyva@caseslacambra.com
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Of Counsel
Araceli Leyva is Of Counsel at Cases & Lacambra where she provides legal advice in Coporate & M&A, banking and financial regulation. She is the coordinator of the legal criteria of the Firm in Coporate & M&A.
After her legal studies in the United Kingdom she started her professional career in Bufete Olivencia - Ballester in Seville and later joined the legal department of the 1992 Seville Universal Exposition, specialising in the commercial and participants area of the Exposition. In 1993 she joined the financial legal department of Banco Español de Crédito, S.A. (Banesto), where she specialised in derivative products, as advisor to the treasury department of the bank after its intervention by the Bank of Spain. In 1997 she joined the legal department of the Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks (CECA) as specialist in financial and derivatives transactions and became coordinator of the Commercial Law area of the Legal Department. During this period, she provided legal advice on a wide range of financial and derivative transactions and corporate transactions of companies in which CECA and the Spanish Savings Banks had an interest, in some of which she was Secretary of the Board of Directors.
She was also the Secretary of the CECA Legal Committee and responsible for the Corporate Governance Unit of the Bank. She regularly gives lectures and seminars on Derivatives Master Agreements, Financial and Securities Markets in different universities and business schools.
During her professional career, she has also been a member of several working groups in national and international regulatory bodies and finan cial markets area associations .
Banking&Finance
Coporate & M&A
Financial Centers Desk
Bachelor of Laws wih Honours (Ll. B. Hons.)
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Master of Laws (Ll.M. Exon.) European Legal Studies
University of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Law Degree (Convalidation)
University of Seville
Phd Courses
University of Seville
Member of the Madrid Bar Association
