Real Estate
Europe Guide 2024 : Spain
Band 4
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Provided by Dentons
Dentons Spanish Real Estate team has gold standard expertise in advising institutional and domestic clients on real estate investments in single countries and across borders. A significant element of our practice focuses on single-country and multi-country real estate M&A transactions for a wide range of major institutional investors, developers, private equity houses and alternative lenders. The team provides top legal advice on acquisitions and disposals of individual assets, and portfolios of properties across virtually all industry sectors, including logistics, hotel, residential, student housing, office and retail. The team is driven by quality and difficulty, and not volume; and this why we have advised in the most challenging deals during the COVID crisis. We are commercially oriented business advisors who want to be "closers" of deals. In addition, and following their clients’ needs, the team is providing legal advice to investors and the local players in joint ventures within the logistic sector and is focused on challenging transactions involving the change of use of existing properties to start new projects. The needs of the Real Estate clients are changing, and the Spanish Real Estate team accompanies them in these challenging times..
Chambers Review
The firm often advises international investment funds and real estate developers on their first investments in Spain, with experience in the acquisition of completed assets or plots of land for development. It advises on the establishment of joint ventures between developers and financial backers, and it assists with real estate transactions structured as share deals. The firm also assists asset managers with ongoing issues relating to the management of their real estate portfolio.
Work Highlights
- Dentons advised AXA IM Alts on the sale of Data4 to Brookfield Infrastructure.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Our expectations have been met in all areas of the protracted and complicated sales process."
"Dentons communicated exceptionally well and responded in a timely manner."
"Our expectations have been met in all areas of the protracted and complicated sales process."
"Dentons communicated exceptionally well and responded in a timely manner."
Notable Practitioners
Itxaso López leads many of the firm's key real estate and real estate finance mandates, often on behalf of institutional investors based abroad. She is also involved in the sale and leaseback of hotels and acquisition of offices.
"Itxaso is always on top of things and is ready to solve issues in an efficient manner."
"She is very pragmatic, quick and is always open to finding new ways to solve issues."
Roberto Tojo Thomas heads the firm's real estate department in Spain. He is very active in M&A involving real estate companies, and in asset acquisitions.
"He has very strong negotiation skills."
"Roberto is strongly committed to his client's goals."
Francisco Jiménez is a senior associate who joins the rankings due to strong market support. He assists with the sale and acquisition of real estate assets, development and its financing as well as share deals across asset classes ranging from hotels to offices.
"Francisco can draft complex documents and understands commercial issues."
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