Maria Luisa Canovas
Adjunct Professor of Law @Columbia Law School
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WORK HISTORY
Adjunct Professor of Law @Columbia Law School
New York, NY, US
María Luisa is teaching several M&A courses at Columbia Law School, including in the LLM program and the Global Law and Business Seminar. She has also held visiting posts at other academic institutions including Strathmore University (Kenya) and Universidad Panamericana (Mexico).
EDUCATION
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Law Degree (J.D. equivalent)
Southern Methodist University
L.L.M., Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Economist
Columbia Law School
LLM and GLBS, Mergers and Acquisitions
The Fletcher School at Tufts University
MALD, International Law and Legal Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT MARIA LUISA CANOVAS
A former partner at Jones Day and Hogan Lovells, María Luisa Canovas has been ranked for more than a decade as a leading New York lawyer for M&A by, among others, Chambers Latin America (2024), Chambers Global (2024), The Legal 500 Latin America and Latinvex “Top 50 Female Lawyers in Latin America.” Spain’s Expansion Jurídica recently listed her as one of the top Spanish lawyers practicing in the U.S. Since launching a boutique practice in 2022, María Luisa has continued to work for clients and taught several M&A courses at Columbia Law School. The acquisition by Grupo Hame of Agrokasa in which she was NY M&A counsel for Grupo Hame has been shortlisted by Latin Lawyer and IFLR for their respective M&A Deal of the Year Awards for 2024. In addition, she heads the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute in New York and is a member of the Board of the US-Mexico Bar Association and of the Finance Committee of the Brooklyn Public Library.
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