Xavier Ruiz

Xavier Ruiz is the founding partner of RC Law LLP, a boutique law firm with offices in New York and Miami.  The firm, which was founded in January of 2017, is well known for its transactional practice.  It has been recently ranked by Chambers & Partners, as a leading law firm in S. Florida in the category of “Corporate, M&A and Private Equity (2023)”, along with 11 other firms, being the only boutique firm in the ranking.

Being admitted in both New York and Spain, Mr. Ruiz brings to RC Law a wide breath of knowledge and experience in cross-border corporate and finance transactions, especially involving the United States, Spain and/or Latin America.  Over the years, he has acted as New York’s M&A or finance counsel to some of major European and Asian corporates, including Sony Corporation, Telefonica, Prosegur, BBVA, Indra, Mapfre, Dragados, Abengoa, Caixabank, Bankia, ACS, Vantico (Ciba Geigy), Globalia, Planeta, Insudpharma and Wallbox (a NYSE listed company).  He also regularly advises European and Latin American family offices on U.S. transactional and corporate matters.

Mr. Ruiz has received several recognitions as an M&A expert by leading legal publications, including Euromoney’s “Guide of the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers” (US Chapter) in 2004 and 2005, and by Chambers & Partners – Latin America in 2015 and 2016, with a client praising him as “really exceptional” and another suggesting that he “went far beyond what I could expect from a lawyer”.  He has been instrumental in getting RC Law ranked as a leading transactional law firm in Florida.

He is a frequent speaker on M&A related topics on diverse fora throughout Spain and Latin America and is the co-author of the U.S. chapter of the “Guide on Shareholders’ Agreements” (2018), published by the International Bar Association.

Mr. Ruiz is a graduate of the University of Barcelona (1982) and holds the degree of Master in International and Comparative Law from the Free University of Brussels (1986, Cum Laude) and an LLM degree from the University of California at Berkeley (1987, With Honors), where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar. He is a member of the American Bar Association and of the International Bar Association, where he served as a Committee Officer for four years.

Mr. Ruiz is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce in New York, where he served as Executive Chairman from 2010 to 2014.  For over a decade, he has also served on a pro-bono basis, as a member of the Advisory Board and as Secretary of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA, a U.S. non-profit organization devoted to fighting poverty in India, which is related to RDT Vicente Ferrer, the “umbrella” foundation, located in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India.