Overview
Alberto has broad experience in equity and equity-linked offerings (IPOs, ABOs, RIs and block trades and convertible and exchangeable bond offers), regulatory capital and hybrid corporate bonds and other debt issues (stand-alone, EMTN and HY bond issues) and liability management transactions, acting both for financial institutions and corporates, having participated in SEC-registered, 144A and Reg S only transactions.
He also has also extensive experience in banking transactions, such as corporate financings and restructurings, as well as in M&A and general corporate matters, including corporate governance.
In addition to the above, Alberto has deep experience and interest in Latin America, being a member of the LatAm team leading the expansion of the firm’s business in the region. He worked for a year in the Linklaters New York office, supporting this practice.
Work highlights
Capital Markets
- Equity: advising on, among others, (i) the IPOs of Grupo Ecoener, Cellnex, Applus+, Lar España Real Estate SOCIMI and Axiare Patrimonio SOCIMI; (ii) the rights issues/capital raisings of Banco Santander, Lar España Real Estate SOCIMI, OHL, Ezentis, Axiare Patrimonio SOCIMI, Banco Popular and Banco de Sabadell, (iii) ABOs of Applus+, Colonial, Banco Santander, BBVA and Banco de Sabadell; and (iii) the block trades of CaixaBank, Axiare Patrimonio SOCIMI, MásMóvil and Merlin Properties shares.
- Debt: advising on, among others, (i) the EMTNs and drawdowns of Merlin Properties SOCIMI, Naturgy, Iberdrola, Abertis and Repsol; (ii) stand-alone issues of investment grades as Ferrovial, FCC Servicios Medio Ambiente and SIX Group and HY issues as Abengoa, OHL and el Corte Inglés; and (iii) project bonds issued by renewable energy groups as Grupo Ecoener and Ibereólica; and (iv) several liability management transactions.
- Equity-linked, corporate hybrids and regulatory capital: advising on, among others (i) convertible and exchangeable bonds of Indra, Iberdrola, Abengoa, Telefónica and NH Hoteles; (ii) corporate hybrids of Telefónica, Iberdrola, Naturgy, Abertis and Ferrovial; and (iii) regulatory capital instruments of Banco Santander (including several takedowns under its Sec-Registered SHELF Program), CaixaBank and BBVA.
Banking transactions
- Financings: advising on, among others, (i) a syndicate of banks on the USD460m financing to Enagás USA guaranteed by Enagás; (ii) a syndicate of banks on the up to US$290m financing to Hokchi Energy, guaranteed by Pan American Energy; (iii) Blue Marine, an offshore oil and gas producer in Mexico, in relation to (I) a USD50m bridge financing from GIP, (II) the project financing from BancoMext, and (III) the tax lease structure in Spain, for the construction of a floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) to be deployed in Mexico and chartered to PEMEX; as well as (iv) a syndicate of banks on the US$75m financing to YPF Energía Eléctrica.
- Restructurings: advising on, among others (i) Abengoa on its more than €10bn debt restructuring; (ii) Prisa on several restructurings of its financial debt; (iii) FCC on the restructuring of its financial debt; and (iv) the bondholders on the court supervised €2.2bn debt restructuring of Grupo Isolux Corsan.
Corporate and M&A
- Advising Inypsa Informes y Proyectos (as absorbing company), a Spanish company listed in the Spanish Stock Exchange, on its merger by absorption with Carbures Europe (as absorbed company), a Spanish company listed in the Spanish Alternative Stock Market (Mercado Alternativo Bursátil – MAB).
- Advising Repsol on the USD 6.653m agreement on the transfer of assets and operations related to its downstream and midstream LNG business in Trinidad & Tobago, Peru and Spain.
- Advising White River Renewables, the company created by White Summit Capital España and Riverstone, on the acquisition of JinkoSolar Mexico from Jinko Solar.
- Advising an international listed company on the attempted acquisition of a port operator in Mexico.
- Advising a Spanish financial entity on the attempted disposal of a stake in an industrial company.
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