Jesús García Aparicio

Senior Associate

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Specialist in corporate law, mergers, sales and acquisitions of companies and assets, restructuring processes and joint ventures in strategic sectors.

Jesús García has also an extensive experience advising companies on the application and consequences of the foreign investment regime in strategic sectors, which includes critical infrastructure and technology, as well as energy, defense, sensitive data, and other essential sectors of activity.

He is a dual qualified lawyer, admitted to the bar in Spain (2010) and in the State of New York (2017) and, in 2021/2022, he completed a one-year secondment in New York at the Corporate/M&A Group of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

He is member of the firm’s German Desk, which specializes in advising company groups based in German-speaking countries on their business activities on the Iberian Peninsula.

In Spain, he is a founding member and secretary of the alumni association “Fulbright Network Spain” and chairman of the "New York University Alumni Club in Spain". He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the "NYU Law Alumni Association" in United States, and Country Reporter for Spain at the CELIS Institute, entity for the research and analysis of foreign investment screening mechanisms.

He lectures classes on International Contracting & Foreign Investments and Introduction to German Law at ISDE Law Business School, and (ii) the Entrepreneurship Program (corporate law section) at ESADE Law School & Prevent Foundation.

He is the author of specialist articles on corporate law and was a graduate editor of the New York University Journal of Law and Business (company law focus) from 2014 to 2015.

He was a research fellow in a capital markets project at the International Institute for the Unification of the Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Italy in 2015, and at the World Trade Center Organization in Montana, USA in 2009.

He has an extensive international education in law and business thanks to the completion of multiple exchange programs and courses at various leading academic institutions in the United States (Harvard University, New York University, Cornell University, University of Montana, Virginian Commonwealth University), Germany (Bucerius Law School & WHU Beisheim School of Management, Regensburg UniversitätBayreuth Universität, (DAAD Scholar), European Business School), the United Kingdom (King’s College London), Finland (University of Helsinki), Japan (Tokyo Meiji University) and Spain (Universidad de Navarra, Universitat Jaume I).

Education

  • Master in Corporation Law (LLM) (Fulbright scholarship; recipient of Charles D. Klein ’63 Graduation Award in Law and Business),
    New York University School of Law, 2015

    Master in Law and Business
    Bucerius Law School & WHU Beisheim School of Management, Hamburg, Germany, 2014

    Double Bachelor in Law and Business Administration and Management
    Universidad de Córdoba, 2009 (With distinction)

    Program Certificates in “Executive Leadership” & “Performance Leadership”
    Cornell University, 2022

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