María Pilar García Guijarro

Practice Areas

María Pilar is a Partner in Corporate and M&A Group and Head of WFW Madrid Office.

She has more than 25 years of experience in M&A and Private Equity transactions. She is an expert in the energy and infrastructure sectors in Europe, LATAM and the Middle East, with special focus in renewables, power and gas. She has also relevant experience in other sectors such as real estate and healthcare.

María Pilar advises investment funds, industrial companies and financial institutions in the full spectrum of corporate transactions. She specialises in M&A and private equity deals granting full corporate and commercial advice including structuring, development, and execution, acquisition of projects, portfolios and platforms, joint ventures and project contracts (such as PPA, EPC, O&M and DEVAs).

She also has extensive experience advising on structured financings, as well as restructurings and refinancings.

Career

María Pilar is recommended as a leading energy lawyer in Spain by prestigious legal directories Legal 500 EMEA, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global. In their 2019 and 2020 editions, Chambers hailed her as "a magnificent negotiator" and a "very commercially oriented” lawyer who “adapts to what the client is looking for".