Gabriel Soria

Gabriel Soria is the Managing Partner of Gabriel Soria Abogados, a Spanish law firm specialising in planning and land-use law and based in the Madrid area. Under his direction the practice has been recognised as Planning Law Firm of the Year in Spain at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, an award that reflects the firm's concentrated expertise in urban planning and real-estate-related public law. The recognition affirms Gabriel Soria's standing as one of Spain's leading practitioners in this technically demanding field.

The firm operates from the Madrid region and organises itself around a distinctive model, describing its approach as a network legal-services structure that prioritises specialisation and flexibility. Rather than maintaining a large fixed staff, it works with a core team supported by multidisciplinary collaborators, including lawyers, engineers, economists and communications specialists. This structure is well suited to planning work, which frequently requires legal analysis to be combined with technical and economic input, and it allows the firm to assemble the right expertise for each project while keeping a strong focus on personalised client service.

Planning law sits at the centre of the firm's practice, and it is supported by closely related disciplines that arise in land and property matters. Alongside urban planning and land use, the firm advises on real-estate and property law, property-registration law, real-estate taxation, environmental protection, public procurement, expropriation and compulsory purchase, and corporate structuring for property ventures. This breadth allows Gabriel Soria Abogados to guide clients through the full life cycle of land development, from the classification and planning status of a site through to the regulatory approvals, tax treatment and transactional steps needed to bring a project forward.

The firm's client focus reflects the nature of planning and land-use work, where landowners, developers, investors and public-facing projects require advice that is both legally rigorous and commercially practical. Its emphasis on specialisation means clients deal with advisers who concentrate on this area rather than treating it as one practice among many, while its flexible, collaborative model ensures that the relevant technical disciplines are brought to bear on complex matters. That combination has helped establish the firm as a trusted name for planning and property-related public law in Spain. Planning and land-use disputes in Spain frequently engage overlapping layers of municipal, regional and national regulation, so the firm's capacity to combine legal analysis with technical and economic input is particularly well suited to the sector's demands.

Gabriel Soria brings some three decades of legal practice to the firm that bears his name. His work in the planning field has earned sustained external recognition, including repeated selection by Best Lawyers in the planning category over many years and a national law award recognising his work in patrimonial law. This long track record, together with the firm's specialist positioning, underpins the confidence that clients place in its advice on some of the most intricate questions in Spanish land and planning law. The naming of Gabriel Soria Abogados as Planning Law Firm of the Year in Spain at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 caps that reputation, recognising both Gabriel Soria's personal expertise and the firm's disciplined, multidisciplinary approach to planning and land-use matters.