Rafael Ruiz

Partner, Head of Corporate
  • Experience

Rafael is Head of the Corporate Team and is based in our Chelmsford office. He became a Partner in 2001 and specialises in all aspects of corporate law.

He has wide experience of corporate mergers, acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations and reconstructions, joint ventures, and of general corporate governance issues and shareholders arrangements.

Rafael Ruiz also leads the firm’s Competition Team, and advises clients on all aspects of competition and anti-trust compliance, including merger control requirements.

Rafael is recommended and named as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500 [UK 2024]. In the previous edition, a client noted “Rafael Ruiz understands the dynamics of our individual shareholders as well as the needs of the business. He is personally very interested in our progress and makes a great partner as a result.”

He qualified as a Solicitor in October 1997.

Rafael is recommended and named as a ‘Leading Individual’ by Legal 500 [UK 2024]. In the previous edition, a client noted “Rafael Ruiz understands the dynamics of our individual shareholders as well as the needs of the business. He is personally very interested in our progress and makes a great partner as a result.”

Clients in earlier editions said “Rafael Ruiz – our go to partner for any legal issue, guaranteed a helpful and qualitative response.” Another described him as “structured, attuned to clients’ needs and able to explain the course of action in simple terms”.

He qualified as a Solicitor in October 1997.

Awards and Memberships

Legal 500 Leading Individual 2024 logo

Rafael Ruiz understands the dynamics of our individual shareholders as well as the needs of the business. He is personally very interested in our progress and makes a great partner as a result.’

Legal 500 [UK 2023]

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