Press Release:  7 July 2009

Spanish law firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo to support Law and Financial Markets Project at LSE

Leading Spanish firm, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados, will become Foundation Sponsors of the LSE Law and Financial Markets Project (LFMP), LSE announced this week (Monday 6 July).

The Law and Financial Markets Project carries out research into how law and regulation serve and interact with, financial market activity. It aims to provide a framework for collaboration between lawyers in the commercial world and those in academic institutions. As a Foundation Sponsor, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo will support the project – both financially and professionally - initially over a three year period.

Roger McCormick, director of the project and a visiting professor and senior research fellow at LSE, said: “We are delighted to welcome Gómez-Acebo & Pombo as the third Foundation Sponsors for the LFMP.  We are especially pleased that we have a Spanish-based firm on board, which reflects the diversity of LSE, its students and the projects we are working on. The agreement with a Spanish Firm has a particular relevance in the current environment of crisis when their financial system has become one of the world’s reference points. Gómez-Acebo & Pombo itself has a great reputation for working with leading academic professors from top Spanish Universities and I am looking forward to working with Gómez-Acebo & Pombo over the next three years.”

Manuel Martín, Managing Partner of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados said “I am sure this agreement will be very fulfilling for Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. The opportunity to work with LSE academics from the Law Department will give us a new perspective and I’m sure will contribute to the results and findings of the research produced. As an LSE alumnus myself, I have personally participated in the development of the agreement and I am very proud of seeing our firm contributing to a world class institution such as the LSE".

For more on the Law and Financial Markets Project, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/projects/lfm.htm

 

 

Contact:

 

Roger McCormick, LFMP, tel: 020 7955 7915 , email: rsmccormick@btinternet.com |
Jessica Winterstein, LSE Press Office, tel: 020 7107 5025, email j.winterstein@lse.ac.uk | 

 

Rosana Rumschisky, Directora de Comunicación y Marketing, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados

Tel.: +34 91 582 92 24, email: rosana@gomezacebo-pombo.com

 

Notes:

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, one of the leading law firms in Spain, has provided legal advisory services in all areas of company law for more almost forty years.

The firm has more than 320 professionals (including 49 partners) in six offices in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Valencia and Vigo) and two abroad: one in London and the other in Brussels.   Its client base is made up of large and medium Spanish and foreign companies and government bodies and agencies at local, regional and state level, as well as entities related thereto. More than 50% of companies listed in IBEX 35, EUROSTOXX 50, DAXX 50, DOW JONES or EF have been advised by Gómez-Acebo & Pombo during the past five years.

www.gomezacebo-pombo.com

Professor Hugh Collins, head of Department, noted that LSE topped the Law rankings in every assessment of the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE),  establishing a 'quantum difference' between the department and its competitors.. The Law Department, one of LSE's largest, is based in the School’s prestigious, state-of-the-art New Academic Building overlooking Lincoln's Inn Fields.. Details of other LSE Law Department projects can be found at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/research/research-firstpage.htm

 

6 July 2009