Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
Europe 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.
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."
Beatriz Amillo Torrano is an associate to watch who enters the rankings due to market support. She assists with M&A transactions and corporate governance.
"Throughout an extremely challenging, time-consuming, complex and tiring deal, Beatriz showed extreme patience and determination."
"She showed an impressive level of commitment and empathy throughout the transaction."
"What surprised me was her capacity for involvement and coordination."
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