Arnau has been a partner of the Corporate/Commercial Department of Garrigues since January 2016. He joined in 2002 and has spent his entire professional career at the firm. Over the course of his career, he has participated in national and international transactions, including:

• Bancassurance deals and other types of alliances involving insurance companies.
• Bank mergers.
• Cross-border structural modification transactions.
• Creation and corporate restructurings of insurance companies.
• Portfolio transfers.
• Outsourcing agreements.
• Hotel management agreements.
• Sale and purchase of companies.
• Complex multi-jurisdictional transactions in Spain and in other jurisdictions, alongside other legal teams.

Arnau also provides ongoing advice on corporate governance, corporate and commercial law matters to numerous listed companies and national and international business groups. He has also acted as Board Secretary at listed and unlisted companies.

• Law degree (majoring in EU Law), Universidad San Pablo–CEU.
• MBA, Instituto de Empresa.

Arnau has taught classes on various Master’s Degree courses (Centro de Estudios, ICADE and Universidad Carlos III).

Member of the Madrid Bar Association. 

Recognized as a Notable Practitioner in Corporate/M&A by IFLR 1000.

Recognized as a key lawyer at Garrigues in the Corporate/M&A area by Legal 500.

Among other publications, he has co-authored the following articles: “La Ley de Modificaciones Estructurales - Una norma técnicamente fallida” (The Structural Modifications Law - A Technically Flawed Regulation), published in Indret, and “Fund-Raising. La documentación legal del Fondo como medio de armonizar los intereses de los inversores y el equipo gestor” (Fund-Raising. The Legal Documentation of the Fund as a means of Reconciling the Interests of Investors and the Management Team), published in Revista Española de Capital Riesgo.