Languages

• Basque
• English
• French
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Spanish

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Banking & Finance
• Buyouts
• Capital Markets
• Climate Change
• Commercial Disputes
• Construction
• Construction Litigation
• Consumer Products & Retail
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Energy
• Energy Finance
• Energy Projects
• Energy Regulatory
• Energy/Utilities
• Financial Services
• Fund Formation
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Global Infrastructure
• Intellectual Property
• International Cartel Investigations
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• International/Cross-Border Planning & Transactions
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Labor & Employment
• Latin America
• M&A
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mergers & Acquisitions/Tax
• Privacy & Data Security
• Private Equity
• Product Response Team
• Project Finance
• Real Estate
• Real Estate & Pass-Through Entities/Tax
• State Aid
• State and Local Tax Counseling
• Tax
• Tax Audits & Controversies
• Telecommunications
• Trial Practice
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer

Published Works

• Influencia de la Ley de Dependencia en el mercado de trabajo, La Gaceta de los Negocios, 2006
• Madrid Labor & Employment, 2001

Representative Cases

• Acciona, S.A., Intecsa-Uhde Industrial S.A. y Endesa Cogeneración y Renovables, S.A. v. Utisa Tableros Del Mediterraneo, S.L. y El Corte Inglés, S.A.
• Competition Law Investigation
• Enersis S.A., Chilectra S.A., Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A. y Elesur S.A. (Grupo Enersis Y Elesur) v. República Argentina (ICSID Case No. ARB/03/21)
• FCC v. CCT
• Genentech, Inc., et al. v. Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., et al.
• Huarte v. Vista, et al.
• Metromed v. ETMVA
• Necso Entrecanales Cubiertas S.A. v. La Sociedad General Inmobiliaria de España, S.A.
• Neumáticos Michelin, S.A. v. Ineuropa de Cogeneración, S.A. v. La Energía, S.A. v. Ineuropa de Cogeneración, S.A. y Enagas. S.A., Unión Temporal de Empresas Ley 18/1982 de 26 de mayo (UTE Alabe-Sergas)
• Spanish German-Consortium v. ETMVA
• TECHMED v United Mexican States
• 2005 Credit Facility
• Acquisition and Financing and Concurrent Refinancing
• Acquisition and Project Financing , (2009)
• Acquisition and related Project Financing , (2009)
• Acquisition by Caprabo
• Acquisition Finance Facility
• Acquisition Financing
• Acquisition Financing
• Acquisition Financing
• Acquisition Financing of Cogeneration Plants
• Acquisition Financing of Thermosolar Plant
• Acquisition of Amena
• Acquisition of Anuntis S.L.
• Acquisition of Apollo Group
• Acquisition of Ceramics Division of Johnson Matthey
• Acquisition of Construcciones Accesorios Turbo-Paconsa
• Acquisition of Fábricas Agrupadas de Muñecas de Onil, S.A.
• Acquisition of Famosa
• Acquisition of Fers Resin
• Acquisition of Frankfurter Kreis' Stake in DPD
• Acquisition of Gillette
• Acquisition of Guimera
• Acquisition of Guimerá
• Acquisition of InfoJobs SA
• Acquisition of Itevelesa
• Acquisition of Laboratorios Indas
• Acquisition of Menaje Group
• Acquisition of Meximerica Media
• Acquisition of Mivasa Envases
• Acquisition of Molinare
• Acquisition of Tafime SA , (2008)
• Acquisition of the stakes of the main minority shareholders of France Télécom España , (2009)
• Acquisition of Torrington
• Acquisition of Turmed
• Acquisition of Wittur
• Acquisition of Ya.com
• Advice
• Antitrust Counseling
• Applus Servicios Tecnologicos Acquisition
• Bioenergética Egabrense Project
• Buyout
• Buyout
• Buyout
• Buyout
• Cabezo San Roque Wind Project
• Campollano Wind Project
• Cement Merger
• Cogeneration arbitration
• Co-investment , (2009)
• Competition Law Investigation
• Competition Law Investigation
• Competition Law Investigation
• Competition Law Investigation
• Competition Matters
• Construction Adjudication and Arbitration
• Construction Arbitration
• Corporate, Regulatory, and Antitrust Matters
• Counter Guarantee Agreement Regarding Electric Line
• Credit Facility
• Development of State Prison
• Disposition
• Encinedo, Angostillos, Hornillos and El Cuadrón Wind Parks Project
• European Community Law – Agriculture
• Fairmont Mayakobá Resort Hotel
• Faro Farelo Wind Project
• Fers Fenocast Merger
• Financing for Purine Treatment Plant
• Financing of Golf Course
• Financing of Industrial Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility
• Financing of Puente del Ebro Shadow Toll Road
• Financing of Purine Treatment Plant
• Financing of Sewage Plants
• Financing of Solar Photovoltaic Plants , (2008)
• Financing of Solar Plants , (2009)
• Financing of Solar Thermal Power Plant
• Financing of the construction, operation and development of five wind parks located in France
• Financing of the construction, operation and development of four windparks located in France
• Financing of Thermal Power Plant , (2008)
• Financing of Thermosolar Plants , (2009)
• Financing of two Thermal Power Plants in Badajoz, Spain , (2008)
• Financing of Water Supply Project
• Financing of Wind Park
• Financing of Wind Park
• Financing of Wind Park
• Financing of Wind Park Projects , (2009)
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Financing of Wind Parks , (2009)
• Financing of Wind Parks
• Food Service Project Investment
• Fuensanta Wind Project
• Getronics and Groupe Bull Acquisition
• Hotel Financing , (2007)
• Hotel Financing , (2007)
• Hoya Gonzalo Wind Park Project
• Investment in Controlex Espana Prevencion
• Joint Venture with Autobytel
• Joint Venture with Random House
• Joint Venture with Trajin
• La Brújula Wind Project
• La Esperanza Wind Park
• La Herrería and Pasada de Tejeda Wind Project
• La Roda Biomass Project
• Leveraged Buyout
• Litigation issues in Spain
• Los Valles Windpark Project
• Manageneración Project
• Marine Hose Cartel Investigation , (2009)
• MBO of A.T. Kearney consulting business
• Merger Opposition
• Merger with Banc Agricol i Comercial d'Andorra
• Merger with Reno De Medici , (2007)
• Nevada Solar One Project , (2007)
• Noroeste and Peña Armada Wind Project
• Private Placement
• Privatization of Turbo 2000
• Project Financing
• Project Financing
• Project Financing for Construction of a Waste Disposal Area
• Project Financing for Highway Conversion
• Project Financing for Ten Wind Power Plants in Castilla Leon, Castilla La Mancha, Andalucia and Galicia, Spain
• Project Financing for the Construction of a Hotel
• Project Financing of Fotovoltaic Solar Plants
• Project Financing of Hospital
• Project Financing of Section of Highway A-2
• Project Financing of Section of Highway A-4
• Project Financing of Solar Photovoltaic Plant
• Project Financing of Solar Plant
• Project Financing of Two Wind Farms and Nine Photovoltaic Installations
• Project Financing of Underground Parking Lots in Spain
• Project Financing of Windpark
• Public Offering and Private Placement of Debt and Equity Securities
• Puska Pneumatic S.A. Acquisition
• Real Estate Construction
• Real Estate Financing
• Red Hills Wind Power Project
• Refinancing of Cogeneration Plant
• Regulatory
• Regulatory and Competition Law Matters
• Regulatory and Competition Matters
• Regulatory Matters
• Reorganization
• Restructuring of Mexican Operating Companies
• Robres Windpark Project
• Rosewood Laguna Kai Project
• Sale of Albright & Wilson European Surfactants Business
• Sale of ASA Abfall Service
• Sale of Consumer Healthcare Business
• Sale of European and Latin American subsidiaries
• Sale of Highland Partners
• Sale of NextiraOne Europe
• Sale of Spanish Cement Assets
• Sale of Superdiplo
• Sale of TAPSA
• Sale of worldwide silicones business
• San José-Caldera Toll Road Project
• Secured Credit Facility
• Secured Syndicated Financing Facility for Abertis
• Securitization
• Securitization
• Senior Secured Chilean Transmission Line Financing
• Senior Secured Industrial Waste Facility Financing
• Sogecable/Telefónica
• Spanish Cable Operators
• State Aid
• State Aid
• State Aid
• Tatanka Wind Power Project
• Tender Offer
• Tuxpan III & IV Power Project
• Vespucio Sur Toll Road Project
• Wind Power Projects
• Windpark Project

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Class Actions, Closely Held Businesses, Collections & Repossessions, Collective Bargaining, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Real Estate, Complex Litigation, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Consumer Protection, Contracts, Conveyancing, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Corporate Taxation, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Deceptive Trade Practices, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Eminent Domain, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Estate & Gift Taxation, Excise Taxes, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Federal Trial Practice, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Franchising, Income Taxation, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Banking, International Intellectual Property, International Law, International Taxation, International Taxation, International Trade Litigation, International Transactions, International Transactions, Joint Ventures, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Lemon Law, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Litigation & Appeals, Loan Workouts, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Multidistrict Litigation, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Partnerships, Patent Litigation, Patents, Payroll Taxes, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Public Finance, Real Estate Law, Reorganizations, Residential Real Estate, RICO Act, RICO Act, Sales & Use Taxes, Savings & Thrifts, Secured Transactions, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, State, Local & Municipal Law, Tax Litigation, Taxation Law, Technology Licensing, Title Insurance, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Regulation, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Transactions, Unfair Competition, Unfair Labor Practices, Uniform Commercial Code, Unions, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Venture Capital, Wage & Hour Laws, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Warranties, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee