Practice area
Corporate and M&A
“It has a very strong team technically, and is agile in responding as well as in the management and search for solutions for complex issues.”
Positioned among the leaders in mergers and acquisitions by the different rankings and directories in recent years, our Corporate team is made up of professionals with extensive experience in advising complex and high value-added transactions to clients who are leaders in their respective sectors.
Since our foundation in 1971, the corporate practice has been one of the strategic points of the Firm. Our extensive experience guarantees the quality of our advice and allows us to participate in the most complex transactions, both national and international.
Our aim is to establish long-term relationships with our clients and to fully understand their business. This allows us to provide practical solutions to their problems and bring their objectives to fruition. Within the area we have sector experts with a higher level of specialization in various areas, such as corporate governance, venture capital and energy, among others. Our teams are made up of multidisciplinary professionals depending on the client’s needs.
In corporate sale & purchase and investment transactions, we advise our clients in all phases and in the preparation and negotiation of the necessary documents in each of them (confidentiality and exclusivity letters, letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, investment and partner agreements and joint ventures, among others). In addition, we also advise on structural modification processes (mergers, spin-offs, segregations) and any other corporate action that may take place.
Our commitment to long-term relationships with our clients allows us to respond to their needs in a comprehensive manner, defining policies, internal rules and regulations that are increasingly necessary, not only for listed companies, but also for companies in industries where regulatory and environmental reporting obligations are essential. In this regard, we assist our clients and their committees in keeping track of their meetings and liaising with the relevant supervisory authorities.
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Our expert M&A team is a leader in the market, having been recognized in 2023 in the Top 5 in Spain, according to TTR data, both in terms of volume and number of transactions advised.
We offer a customized quality service of the highest sophistication that allows us to participate in the most complex transactions. Thanks to our internal organization with experts in different economic sectors, we can efficiently advise on those transactions that require a higher level of specialization. In addition, we frequently participate in the design and implementation of corporate transactions in Iberia with strong teams in Spain and Portugal that allow us to ensure our clients an excellent level of quality and homogeneity in our work.
Finally, we provide international advice through our desks and experts in strategic jurisdictions who establish relationships with the leading firms in each area in whatever country the client needs. We work with them under the one stop shop principle, by which, through technological tools and fluid and solid relationships, we can advise as a single firm.
The team dedicated to corporate governance is made up of professionals with recognized experience in the field and academic advisors from the main universities in the country, who ensure us the deepest knowledge in these matters, as well as all the details on the application of the law. This knowledge and experience allows us to offer our clients not only a legal vision, but also a vision of market practices, good governance recommendations and criteria of institutional investors and proxy advisors.
Our advice, which goes beyond the strictly corporate, integrates other practices, such as accounting, white collar crime and tax law, among others. This implies, in line with the best international practices, a global and coordinated approach whose main objective is the prevention, detection and treatment of corporate infractions and the evasion of the responsibility of the entity and its directors and executives.
We advise issuers, shareholders, underwriters, investment services companies and investors in capital market transactions, both locally and internationally, on all types of securities (shares, hybrid products or additional tier 1 securities, promissory notes, convertible or exchangeable bonds, mortgage bonds, territorial bonds, structured bonds, warrants, project bonds, high yield bonds, among others).
We advise small and medium-sized companies in their first access to capital markets, whether equity (IPOs, incorporation to the alternative stock market -BME Growth-) or debt (AIAF, MARF or foreign markets such as Luxembourg, Vienna or Ireland). We also advise companies listed on the Ibex-35, the continuous market or BME-Growth on financing operations, either through capital increases, equity lines or other types of operations such as scrip dividends or accelerated debt placements (US private placements). We also have privileged access to international markets (Euronext, Nasdaq, Eurostoxx 50, FTSE, Nikkei, Dow Jones, CAC, PSI-20) and, therefore, we follow our clients beyond our borders.
Our team is made up of a cross-section of experts from different practice areas, namely corporate, tax, finance, capital markets, regulatory and restructuring. All of them have extensive experience in all types of complex private equity transactions, including transactions involving different jurisdictions and having an international element.
Our Venture Capital team enjoys the highest recognition in the main legal directories: Chambers & Partners and Legal500. We are the most active firm in this type of transactions in Spain according to TTR data. We have been pioneers in advising on these operations in Spain, both on the side of start-ups and on the side of funds or industrial companies that have begun to invest in these types of companies through venture capital operations.
We have extensive experience in the sector, particularly in relation to technology companies, for which we have a team specialized in intellectual property and new technologies. Our point of view is eminently practical and focused on our clients’ business, which we know in depth.
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We are recognised nationally and internationally for our legal services, management, client service, innovation and technical excellence.
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