Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira opened its New York office in the heart of Manhattan in 2001. Its mission is to assist clients through its lawyers’ experience; the inclusion of legal teams of US lawyers; and knowledge of the business world and tax system in the US, as well as of the institutions and most efficient ways of doing business there.
Elena Cuatrecasas has a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad de Barcelona and an LL.M. from the University of London. She has extensive experience in all types of national and international corporate transactions: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture-capital transactions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), management buyouts (MBOs), management buyins (MBIs), and group restructurings. She advises on all types of corporate and commercial contracts, and worked in the United Kingdom for two years.
She also specializes in the pharmacy, health products and biotechnology sector (life sciences), as well as the TMT sector, advising clients and investors on transactional and contractual matters.