The Legal Guide to the Best Lawyers has published its ranking of the best lawyers in Spain for 2025, among which is José Moya Yoldi (Seville, 1978), partner at Cuatrecasas, the firm with the largest number of members on the list throughout the national territory. From Olivensia Law Firm … Pallister, a lawyer who specializes in transactions in the energy and real estate sectors, is part of the fourth generation of the family that founded Persan, a leading national detergent manufacturer and one of the companies with the highest turnover and employment in all of Andalusia.
– Tourism is changing Seville, especially the lifestyle in the city center with fewer neighbors and more tourists. Isn’t it getting a little out of control?
-Yes, I agree with that. From my humble point of view, I will put forward two proposals regarding tourism. The first is that it is time to invest in quality over quantity, and this is beginning to be noticed in both the private sector and public administrations. This will put Sevilla where it deserves. Because Seville is a high-quality tourist destination and we must not lose that exceptional quality. If we continue to bet on quantity, the quality of our destination will deteriorate. The second thing is that I think tourism needs to be decentralized a little bit. We need to take it out of central Seville a little and focus on other areas of our city that are very vulnerable to receiving tourism initiatives. We are now in Sevilla Tech Park, the most important business park in Europe. Here there are spaces to generate cultural initiatives, social initiatives or any other type that will help achieve the decentralization of tourism in the historic center of Seville, where we have a citizenship that deserves to live in quality.
-Since the 1992 World Fair, there has been no investment in infrastructure in Seville.
-I believe Sevilla finally deserves a transformative investment agreement. In terms of infrastructure, we really deserve it. I think we have already paid more than the price for the inheritance of 1992, and it is true that we have been very generous with Sevilla, but it is time to return Seville to the position it deserves in this country. Because it was a city that contributed a lot and deserved to finally have a political agreement to promote transformative infrastructure. In road matters, in railway matters, and in air matters. In other words, we need to continue investing in the airport. We need to connect Seville better by train with Malaga within an hour and we need much stronger investments. It is not about concrete and individual projects, but about an initiative with an urban vision and the ability to implement, with the desire to agree. I believe that the multi-year infrastructure plan for Seville is absolutely necessary. It’s not Seville chauvinism, it’s that we as citizens of Seville have to claim that all of this is where we deserve to be. We have always generated a lot of wealth in this country, and to continue to do that, we have to have the infrastructure.
– Civil society in Seville was never very demanding.
– Historically, we did not get a good score as a civil society, as we did not have strong initiatives to strengthen our civil society either. Because all the great initiatives to strengthen civil society in Seville have ended in conflict, with complex ego management that has not materialized into anything that takes Seville to the place it deserves.
-There was a very interesting movement, Seville Wants Metro, led by a doctor, an engineer and a photographer who managed to mobilize many people.
-Yes. But I think all those motivations have been diluted a little bit. We needed to go beyond our own needs as business people or citizens and become a project that brings together a shared sense of the city. Perhaps this initiative or others did not feel supported by many industrial sectors that, because of their relationship with the administration, preferred not to press that, but rather on other types of needs that in the short term generate greater interest or profitability than Seville could generate as a citizen if it had a metro as that initiative advocated. It’s not about specific projects, it’s not about SE-40, it’s not about the second line or the third line, it’s not about the airport, it’s about a multi-year plan to transform Seville again from the point of view of its infrastructure, as happened in 1992. There was a political agreement to do this and we need you to look at the political situation in Spain again.
-Due to the current political situation, investments are moving again to the north, Catalonia, the Basque Country, due to government partner agreements.
– In fact, it is clear that much greater investments are allocated to other regions of this country than to our regions. Generating opinion as a civil society is also very important and combining this opinion and this sense of civil society seems essential to me.