Corporate/M&A
Global Guide 2024 : Spain
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Garrigues has an extensive team with the capacity to offer a multidisciplinary approach to clients, with industry expertise covering renewable energy, telecommunications and healthcare. The law firm leverages the superb reputations of key individuals in Madrid and Barcelona to serve the corporate governance and transactional needs of clients. It has further experience in public M&A, including takeover bids, remaining a key partner for major banks, private equity funds and real estate investors engaging in M&A transactions, particularly those with a cross-border element. The team has the additional ability to structure high-end acquisitions for multiple co-investors. With offices in Latin American jurisdictions, China and the USA, Garrigues is well placed to assist clients with multi-jurisdictional transactions or at a local level outside of Spain.
Manuel Torres Salazar is a key contact for the firm's offices in Beijing and Shanghai. He leads a team that often advises Spanish clients on the establishment of Chinese subsidiaries, the structuring of joint ventures and the execution of corporate restructurings or M&A transactions. Albert Collado Armengol in Barcelona also has strong links to the Chinese practice owing to his role in setting up the Shanghai office.
Ramon Girbau Pedragosa and Ignacio Calvet Tordera are the main contacts for Garrigues's French desk, which coordinates with partner firms to assist French clients with their investments in Spain or Latin America. It also advises Spanish clients on investing in France.
Staffed by German-speaking lawyers throughout the Garrigues network, the German desk advises German clients on cross-border transactions involving Spain. The desk is particularly active on cross-border corporate and financing transactions involving German energy investors, owing to lead lawyer Silvestre Arana's specialisation in the energy sector.
The Spanish team frequently handles cross-border transactions with Latin America, often assisted by dual-qualified lawyers based in the firm's offices in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Javier Marzo and Ferrán Escayola i Maranges co-head the US desk, which comprises lawyers based in both the Madrid and Barcelona offices with particular knowledge of the US legal system. The team coordinates with colleagues in New York to advise on cross-border matters.
Work Highlights
- Garrigues advised a group of Spanish private shareholders on the sale of IVIRMA to KKR valued at EUR3 billion.
Strengths
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"The Garrigues team has always excelled in handling and solving complex and sophisticated matters, thinking out of the box and striving for a win-win situation for all parties involved."
"They are quite creative but are always assessing all the risks involved."
"They were excellent at handling the complex issues that arose on a daily basis throughout this challenging transaction, not just from a legal perspective but also from a business and commercial point of view."
"I get very good advice without any fuss. It is useful and practical and always on time."
"They inspire total confidence. If it weren't for that I wouldn't keep coming back."
"The Garrigues team has always excelled in handling and solving complex and sophisticated matters, thinking out of the box and striving for a win-win situation for all parties involved."
"They are quite creative but are always assessing all the risks involved."
"They were excellent at handling the complex issues that arose on a daily basis throughout this challenging transaction, not just from a legal perspective but also from a business and commercial point of view."
"I get very good advice without any fuss. It is useful and practical and always on time."
"They inspire total confidence. If it weren't for that I wouldn't keep coming back."
Notable Practitioners
Executive chairman Fernando Vives is a highly reputed managing partner who has a prominent track record of assisting prominent Spanish clients with domestic and cross-border mergers, takeover bids and the disposal of assets.
"Fernando is one of the best corporate lawyers in Spain."
"He is always available to answer questions and provide guidance on any legal matter."
"He understands our needs and is dedicated to providing us with the best possible outcome."
"He is able to make a complicated matter easy. He's very pragmatic and goes to the point."
"He'll be the one with the right solution."
Álvaro López-Jorrín frequently represents both international investors and prominent Spanish corporates in sales, acquisitions and public tender offers.
"Álvaro López-Jorrín is an excellent lawyer. He provides great certainty and confidence in complex situations."
"He helps us to take very hard decisions."
"He is able to anticipate our problems and solve them even before we realise the problems."
"He puts the high speed that we need into M&A deals."
Top-ranked Mónica Martín de Vidales is visible on high-end corporate transactions, including acquisitions and mergers.
"Mónica Martín de Vidales handles things that are not easy. Her point of view is global."
"Mónica is responsive, practical and has good knowledge of the law."
"She's good at negotiations."
"She gets a good balance - good capacity, humble and technically good."
Renata Mendaña assists with a variety of multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions.
"She is client-oriented and has a very strong understanding of the business. She is also quick in bringing alternative solutions."
"She's helps you to figure out if it's a business priority and what's the best option."
"She's really straightforward and easy to work with."
Luis Ortiz Blanco is a highly regarded expert on EU competition law and assists clients with EU-level contentious and non-contentious competition matters. He is also a respected academic.
Manuel Torres Salazar is the partner in charge of the firm's Shanghai and Beijing offices and regularly advises Spanish companies on M&A transactions in China, with strong expertise in maritime and shipping laws.
Ranked Lawyers at
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