Gabriel Cabello

Gabriel is a partner in our real estate practice in Madrid. He has leaded numerous real estate transactions of diverse nature, including investment and divestment of real estate assets, sale and lease-back, leases and construction contracts.

He also has experience advising large international real estate funds on the acquisition of portfolios of both repossessed properties and non-performing loans and drafting and negotiation of servicing agreements for repossessed properties and performing (under the scope of developers’ support plans) and non-performing loans.

He has extensive experience in urban planning and asset management, including negotiation and drafting of lease agreements, construction agreements, administrative proceedings for the granting of construction permits, etc. related to shopping centres, office buildings, logistical warehouses and hotels.

According to Chambers, Gabriel " is always very helpful when solving complex problems and offers solutions that can help all parties to make the deal happen” and “"is hands-on and extremely customer-oriented". Legal 500 recognises him as key individual, recognising his diverse workload covering urban planning, asset management and permitting matters.

Work highlights

Gabriel’s experience includes, among others:

• Advising EQT Exeter (the real estate division of EQT) on the sale of its Spanish student housing portfolio sale to Azora, including 12 assets in nine cities in Spain with 4,100 beds.

• Advising Ares on the awarding of two concession agreements (Plan Vive) for developing c. 3,600 build-to-rent homes in Madrid.

• Advising Stoneshield Capital on the structuring and sale of MiCampus student accommodation real estate portfolio to a new Core+ Evergreen Fund anchored by UBS AM.

• Advising Ares in relation to the acquisition of three residential schemes from Neinor and two residential schemes from an insolvency.

• Advising Universidad Europea on the development of the new campus in Madrid and Málaga

• Advising EQT on the formation of a €500m joint venture with Grupo Moraval to create a new portfolio of student accommodation facilities in Spain.

• Advising Nuveen on the creation of a joint venture with Kronos Investment Group to develop built-to-rent homes in Spain.

• Advising UBS on the sale of an office building in Madrid.

Over the last few years, Gabriel has advised a wide variety of companies, both national and international, such as: Ares, Nuveen, Kronos, EQT, Merlin Properties SOCIMI, Universidad Europea de Madrid, WP Carey, Intu Properties, DK Partners and many more.

Gabriel holds a Law Degree and a Political Sciences Degree from the Autónoma University of Madrid. He also obtained a Planning Law Master from the Alcalá de Henares University, as well as a Master of Advanced Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid.