We help you achieve your business goals
Our first-class Corporate, M&A, and Commercial practice acts on some of the highest-profile transactions internationally. Working with some of the world’s largest companies, investment banks, private equity firms and private investors, we offer a full service – covering corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance and commercial work.
We always focus on your business objectives. Our corporate lawyers work closely with our teams in competition, litigation, bankruptcy, financial, tax and employment to analyse and minimise the risk throughout all your business activities.
We advise listed and private companies, financial institutions, industrial, commercial and services groups, private equity firms, investors and management teams on:
- Mergers and acquisitions, including the sale and purchase of shares, assets or branches of activity
- Strategic alliances and joint ventures
- Shareholders' agreements
- Incorporation, corporate structures, and branches in Spain
- Corporate restructurings, mergers, spin-offs, segregations, dissolutions and liquidations
- Private equity and venture capital investments
- Secondary market acquisitions
- Public offerings of acquisition (OPA), emissions, securities sale and subscription, private placements
- Privatisations and initial public offerings (IPOs).
Industry recognition
- Ranked firm in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Leaders League.
- Partners Roberto Pomares and Gonzalo Olivera included in Expansión’s ranking of Top M&A Lawyers by Deal Value in Spain (2020).
- Partner Roberto Pomares – ranked in Top 6 in the MergerLinks Top Dealmakers Ranking – Spain 2020.
- Partner Roberto Pomares – ranked Top 5 by Mergermarket in the ranking Top M&A Lawyers in Iberia (by deal count) – 2020.
Some of our highlighted deals include advising:
- EDP on the acquisition of the energy group Viesgo. Deal value: €2.7 billion.
- MAPFRE on its joint venture with Iberdrola for the investment in renewable energy projects.
- Galp on the €2.2 billion acquisition from ACS Group of a portfolio of operating and under development PV projects in Spain.
- EDP Group on the €515 million sale of the portfolio of its residential customers in Spain and two combined cycle plants to the French company Total.
- Portobello Capital on the direct transaction of Servicios Compartidos de Industrias Alimentarias, S.L.U. and Lagumar Seas, S.L., to a newly incorporated fund in Luxembourg, whose majority investor is HarbourVest Partners LLC.
- Capza on the acquisition of a majority stake in the online learning group IMF International Business School.
