Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts
Profile
Juan Ignacio Peinado Gracia is an Of Counsel in the Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts practice.
He is a professor of commercial law and has extensive experience in providing corporate and commercial law advice. He spent eight years as partner in charge of the corporate/commercial law practice of a major Spanish law firm and for the last four years he has acted as strategic adviser on legal matters and communication to a listed industrial group. He has focused his practice on corporate law and commercial contracts, and on managing the public interests of a range of clients, mainly in the electricity and banking sectors.
He has been a member of the board of directors of two Spanish listed companies.
A professor of commercial law at Universidad de Málaga, Juan has more than twenty-five years' teaching experience at the universities of Malaga, Granada and Jaen.
Juan is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, the Sainz de Andino Association of Commercial Law Professors, and the Latin American Association of Aeronautical and Space Law (ALADA).
Education
Areas of Practice
- Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts
Professional Career
Articles
Author of three monographs, editor of a dozen collective works and author of more than one hundred and fifty academic works published in Germany, Argentina, Italy, the UK and the US.
Some of his notable publications in the last five years include:
"Denial and silence at commercial companies: (notes on conflicts of interest between the shareholder and the company)" (*), various authors (ed. González/Cohen), Derecho de sociedades: revisando el derecho de sociedades de capital, Valencia (2018), pages 45-80.
"Actions deriving from the breach of the duty of loyalty (article 232 of the Capital Companies Law)" (*), various authors (ed. Rodríguez Artigas, Alonso Ureba, Fernández de la Gándara, Velasco and Quijano), Junta General y Consejo de Administración de la Sociedad cotizada, Vol. 2, (2016), pages 563-591.
"Capitalization in refinancing agreements" (*), various authors (ed. Rojo/Campuzano), Estudios jurídicos en memoria del profesor Emilio Beltrán: liber amicorum, Vol. 2 (2015), pages 1427-1444.
"Systematic risk, solvency and moral hazard. Impact of the financial markets on private law. A critical note" (*) in Revista de Derecho Bancario y Bursátil, no. 134 (2014), pages 7-34.
"Corporate governance, preparation and liability in corporate accounting" (*) in Revista de Derecho de sociedades, no. 42 (2014), pages 21-52.
"Passenger protection in package travel contracts and in the provision of assisted travel services: liability of air carriers and tour operators" (*), various authors (ed. Guerrero Lebrón), La responsabilidad del transportista aéreo y la protección de los pasajeros (2015), pages 513-560.
He has also edited or coordinated the following two works:
- "Cooperative Law Treaty", 2nd edition, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia (2018).
- "Collaborative Economy" (*), Wolters Kluwer, Madrid (2019).
(*) originally published in Spanish. See Spanish CV for further details.
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