Private Equity: Venture Capital

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Provided by Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Our team specialising in investment funds has a very significant presence in the private equity, credit funds, hedge funds and collective investment institutions sector, working on an ongoing basis with a large number of them in their operations in Spain and Portugal.

The advice we provide in the sector includes:

• Analysis of equity and debt investments from the legal point of view.
• Acquisition and sale of credit and debt portfolios
• Analysis of special and distressed situations in the Iberian market, including detailed analysis of capital structures and possible investments in them
• Restructuring of credit positions in companies, advising both on bilateral and syndicated loan transactions, private placements or standing committee of bond holders. This would include advice in both the pre-insolvency and insolvency stages
• Financing in the primary market, including rescue or emergency financing operations
• Advice on hybrid investments, including warrants, participating financing and similar products
• Analysis of investment opportunities in public debt, both state and regional, both financial debt and commercial debt
• Advising activist funds on the design and execution of their strategies in Spain
• Defence of creditors' interests in the context of credit operations in Spain and Portugal, including the enforcement of guarantees and security