Practice areas

• Environment
• Land Planning

Profile

Alberto Ibort Franch joined Pérez-Llorca in 2011. He previously worked in the Administrative Law and Land Planning Department at Garrigues (Madrid) and completed work experience at Cuatrecasas during his University studies.

Studies:

• 2010 Executive Master’s degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues & Harvard Law School
• 2008 Joint Honours degree in Law and Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

He speaks Spanish and English.

Experience

Alberto Ibort Franch has proven experience in advising Spanish and international companies on all aspects of Public Law. He is an expert in Land Planning and the Environment.

His working primarily focuses on the following areas:

• Land planning and environmental advice on developments and transactions: land transactions, shopping centres, offices and residential, logistical and industrial parks, as well as urban reconstruction, renovation and regeneration.
• Drafting and monitoring urban planning instruments: General Plans, Partial Plans, Special Plans, Re-plotting Projects and Planning Agreements, including negotiating with public administrations.
• Urban Entities: appointed secretary of Urban Entities and representative of companies in Compensation Committees.
• Preparation of Master Plans: land value enhancement through carrying out comprehensive land regeneration projects, in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, economists and environmental and land planning technicians.
• Strategic legal planning: advice on national and international consulting projects for the implementation, management and development of cross-border infrastructure projects and land planning and environmental investments, including the management, supervision and negotiation of all types of authorisations, licences and permission.
• Judicial proceedings: legal defence of listed companies for urban planning and environmental matters before contentious-administrative Courts and Tribunals.

Academic and Publishing Collaborations

Alberto Ibort Franch is a frequent lecturer and professor of urban planning, administrative and environmental law at prestigious institutions and courses, for example

• The Urban Planning and Management and Licences Programme at CEU Institute for Advanced Management.
• The Asset, Property & Real Estate Management Masters at Fundación Española de la Edificación y Colegio de Arquitectos Técnicos de Madrid.
• The Real Estate MBA-i Masters at Instituto de Práctica Empresarial (IPE).
• The Expert Programme in Land Planning and Real Estate Development at The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM) and IPE.
• Lecturer on the latest developments of the new electronic notifications regime of Law 39/2015 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid (CAM)

Alberto Ibort Franch frequently contributes to numerous specialist publications as a land planning and environmental expert, having published more than 25 articles in publications including: (i) El Economista – Iuris & Lex, (ii) Revista de Derecho Urbanístico y Medio Ambiente, (iii) Revista Agua y Medio Ambiente, (iv) Revista de Obras Públicas, (v) Wolters Kluwer – Iuris and (vi) El Vigía – Logística y Transporte.

He is also the coordinator of Pérez-Llorca’s Land Planning Newsletter and one of the co-authors of the book “Medidas Cautelares y Ejecución de Sentencias en la Litigación con Administraciones Públicas” published by La Ley in 2015, as well as the author of the chapter on the particular characteristics of these measures within the field of Land Planning.

Professional Organisations

The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM): 2008.

Recognition

Alberto Ibort Franch features in various legal directories such as:

• Chambers Europe: Planning (Associates to Watch).
• Best Lawyers®: Environmental Law.