LAWYER PROFILE

Watson Farley & Williams

Rodrigo Berasategui

Madrid, Spain

Europe Guide 2021

Ranked in 2 departments

Ranked in : Energy & Natural Resources , Project Finance

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Europe

Energy & Natural Resources - Spain

Band 4

Rodrigo Berasategui regularly assists financial institutions, including banks and investment funds, with the financing of renewable energy projects. Clients commend his "full dedication, experience and negotiation skills."

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Project Finance - Spain

Band 1

Clients describe Rodrigo Berasategui as "extremely experienced." Another client praises: "His ability to reach the deal is amazing. He always knows how to close operations. He sees the solution, knows where it is and keeps the deal in mind. He combines all of this with an extremely deep technical knowledge." He has longstanding expertise acting for lenders and sponsors on cross-border financing and refinancing mandates in the renewable energy sector.

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Practice Areas

Rodrigo is a Partner in the Madrid Finance Group.

He has extensive experience advising on financing energy and infrastructure projects.

With more than 20 years practice expertise, Rodrigo has a broad knowledge advising on transactions involving renewable energy including wind, electric, solar (thermosolar and photovoltaic) and biomass, as well as all types of infrastructure (highways, ports and hospitals, etc.).

Rodrigo advises a large number of public and private developers, sponsors, financial institutions, multilateral institutions, insurers and specialised funds on the full range of financing schemes, worldwide, including Latin America: project finance, mezzanine loans, corporate and acquisition finance, export and trade finance transactions. He also acts on debt capital market transactions such as EMTN programmes and green and project bonds.

Career

International legal directories Chambers Europe, Chambers Global and IFLR1000 recommend Rodrigo as a leading lawyer for project finance and energy and natural resources, citing him as a “excellent in all respects”, "one of the strongest in the field" being a “commercially-oriented lawyer with a focus on solving problems."

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