##  [Aurora Sánchez Palacio](/en_GB/team/aurora-sanchez-palacio) 

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 Aurora Sánchez Palacio  Principal associate 

 <AURORA.SANCHEZ@GARRIGUES.COM> - [Barcelona](/en_GB/office/barcelona)+34 93 253 37 00





- Registered lawyer, nº 42906
    
    I. Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona



 

 

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Aurora Sánchez Palacio is a principal associate of the Commercial Law and Real Estate Department of Garrigues, where she practices law in the areas of Banking and Finance, Commercial Contracts and Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions, with professional experience in those areas both in Spanish and international contexts. She graduated from Universidad de Zaragoza Law School with an LL.B. degree (*licenciada en Derecho*), and obtained an LL.M degree from Harvard Law School.

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Aurora Sánchez Palacio is a principal associate of the Commercial Law and Real Estate Department of Garrigues since 2021, having joined Garrigues in 2016, and she has advised in transactions including:

- Financing transactions at the Spanish and international level, both involving institutional lenders and direct lending.
- Sale and purchase of non-performing loan portfolios and distressed transactions.
- Acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Commercial contracts and corporate law.

 

 

 

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- LL.M. Harvard Law School (2013)
- LL.B. (*Licenciada en Derecho*) Universidad de Zaragoza (2012).

 

 

 

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- Associate professor at Universidad Abat Oliba CEU (Barcelona). 2020-2021, 2021-2022.
- Assistant professor at University of Management and Technology (Lahore, Pakistan). 2013-2014.

 

 

 

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Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) col. 42,906

 

 

 

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- Sánchez Palacio, Aurora. 2019. Review of: Muhammad-Basheer A. Ismail, “Islamic Law and Transnational Diplomatic Law, A Quest for Complementarity in Divergent Legal Theories”. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (4) 514-520.
- Sanchez Palacio, Aurora. 2015. “Challenges in the Nepalese Constitutional Process: Federalism, Ethnicity and Representation.” Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (2). 229-250.
- Harvard Law and International Development Society and Millennium Challenge Corporation. 2013. “Methodology for Legal System Impact Evaluation.”
- Efrat Arbel and Alletta Brenner, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program. 2013. “Bordering on Failure: Canada-U.S. Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion.”

 

 

 







 

 



 

 

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