Our Team

Partner

Luis Barber

Expert in Corporate Commercial Law and a litigator specializing in complex matters. Corporate Governance in Boards of Directors. Head of Special Situations and Restructuring and insolvency.

He has over 25 years of professional career, where he started as banking lawyer at Caja Insular de Ahorros de Canarias’ Large Corporates and Investment Department. He has acted as legal advisor and Insolvency administrator in over 75 insolvency processes, some of them quite complex. He is an Insolvency law professor at the Master’s Degree in Legal Practice from Business Law School ISDE (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía), and a regular speaker In seminars and congresses on corporate commercial and Insolvency law.

Luis holds a Law Degree from the Deusto University (Bilbao) and a Master in Tax Law. 

He is specialised In Corporate Governance for Directors from Sagardoy Business & Law School

He is a member of the Illustrious Bar Association of Las Palmas.

      PUBLICATIONS

      AND FORUMS

      • Co-director of the book “Cuestiones actuales sobre Derecho Concursal; responsabilidad concursal del deudor, responsabilidad de los administradores y acuerdo extrajudicial de pago”. Civitas-Thomson Reuters. 2014.
      • Professor of Tax Law. Master in Tourism. Hecansa 2005-2008
      • Lecturer. Insolvency expert course. Surveillance of compliance, non-compliance and effects of the agreement in the insolvency proceedings. Escoex. 2013.
      • The application of Swaps Contracts in the Insolvency. IV Congress of Insolvency and Commercial Law of the Canary Islands.
      • Vanilla Swaps. Las Palmas Chamber of Commerce. Association of Construction Entrepreneurs and Developers of the Province of Las Palmas.
      • The Spanish legal system in the sale and purchase of real estate: a brief outline. Las Palmas Chamber of Commerce of. Invest&Enjoy Gran Canaria.

      LANGUAGES

      • Spanish
      • English

      CONTACT

      M. lbarber@keplerkarst.com

      TEL. +34 911 095 710

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