Fernando Soto

Practice Areas

Fernando is a Global Transactions partner who heads the Real Estate practice group in Spain. He has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law transactions, with particular focus on the acquisition of (i) companies operating in the real estate sector; (ii) real estate assets and portfolios (eg hotels, office building and logistics); and (iii) portfolios of NPLs and repossessed assets. He also has wide experience in acquisitions out of insolvencies and restructuring of real estate companies, loan-to-own transactions, sale and lease back transactions of single assets or portfolios, joint ventures for investment in and/or the development of real estate, lease and hotel management agreements.

He acts for the largest investors in the Spanish real estate sector: Dalian Wanda Group, KKR, KKH Property Investors (KKH Capital Group and Perella Weinberg), Hatfield Philips, MERLIN Properties SOCIMI, MSREF, Altamar Capital Partners, Lar España Real Estate and PIMCO.