Real Estate - Spain
What the team is known for
Ashurst maintains a high reputation among leading international asset managers investing in Spanish real estate. Its client list also includes several prominent real estate developers. The firm advises on forward funding or forward purchase agreements that secure buyers for new logistics, residential or education buildings. It has experience on the investor side of sale and leaseback transactions targeting logistics or hotel assets.
Strengths
"Ashurst is very business and service-oriented. The team also has very good technical knowledge."
"They possess a creative view and a commercial approach that makes complex matters easy."
Work highlights
Ashurst advised Bank of America on the EUR400 million acquisition of Goldman Sachs' NPL and REO platform in Spain.
Notable practitioners
Ismael Fernández Antón has consistently demonstrated his capacity to handle complex real estate transactional mandates. He has experience in the negotiation of forward purchase agreements and in the assignment of forward purchase contracts to third-party investors. He also advises on forward funding transactions. "Ismael's real estate legal knowledge is guaranteed. He is the first lawyer I call when doing a transaction in Spain." "Ismael is very business-oriented."
Joaquín Macías has experience in a range of real estate and real estate finance mandates for asset management companies and investment banks.
