GOLD Abogados

Managing Partners: Israel Gómez-Caro and Raúl Da Veiga

Number of partners: 4

Number of lawyers: 6

Languages: English, Spanish

Firm Overview:

GOLD Abogados is an independent legal boutique aiming to provide high quality legal services to clients mainly active in regulated and complex sectors (such as energy, telecoms, construction and infrastructures, transport, retail, etc.). This young firm has successfully achieved the goal of being positioned between the leading legal firms acting in Spain in certain sophisticated areas of law, such as project finance, regulation and competition, and dispute resolution (commercial litigation, arbitration and bankruptcy). The firm is currently advising some of the most important companies in Spain in fields such as banking, energy, retail or infrastructures. The firm’s philosophy is based on offering tailor-made legal solutions to each one of its domestic and international clients, with full dedication by specialized partners from the beginning to the end of each matter. The high level of transparency regarding the services provided and their cost is also very much appreciated by its clients. In 2012, the firm was awarded with the “Client Service Award” in Spain by Chambers and Partners.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate & M&A

GOLD Abogados is actively involved in a wide range of private M&A transactions, as well as in restructuring and reorganization of corporate groups, joint ventures and real estate transactions, advising and representing international and domestic funds, private equity investors, including venture capital, as well as industrial players and startups. They firm has extensive experience in energy and infrastructures Corporate/M&A transactions (as well as in other areas), having also advised in the development, structuring, financing, operation and management phases of a great number of projects.

GOLD Abogados has also wide experience in providing corporate secretarial services to many companies as well as providing legal services regarding the drafting and negotiation of a wide range of contracts.

Contact: Eduardo Lucas Calderón (Partner)

Tel: +34 91 391 1072

Email: [email protected]

Banking & Finance:

GOLD Abogados is currently representing several of the major Spanish and foreign banks in a large number of financings, restructurings and acquisi- tion finance. The firm has a firmly established reputation for handling high-value, complex banking and finance deals in Spain having built up solid relationships with major Spanish banks.

Contact: Israel Gómez-Caro (Partner)

Tel: +34 91 391 1072

Email: [email protected]

Project Finance:

GOLD Abogados is widely regarded as a market leading firm in Spanish energy and infrastructure Project financing. Project Finance directories describe GOLD Abogados as a prominent presence in energy and infrastructure sectors across Spain and abroad.

The firm’s work in transactions across Spain has afforded GOLD Abogados the opportunity tobe involved in the evolution of the energy and infrastructure sectors in Spain. Its involvement in the major wind farms, thermo solar and photo- voltaic projects in the energy project financing sector and in road, hospitals in the infrastructure sectors in recent years has resulted in a complete participation in the development of standard form project documentation in Spain.

The firm advises both financial Spanish and foreign banks and entities and sponsors and private equity funds with interest in said sectors in Spain, India, Brazil and USA.

Contact: Israel Gómez-Caro (Partner)

Tel:+34 91 391 1072

Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution (Litigation & Arbitration):

GOLD Abogados is currently advising and representing several leading Spanish companies in complex commercial disputes as well as in litigation on private application of competition law. The firm has a huge experience in advising important operators in competition litigation (e.g. claims for damages and / or abuse of dominant position) and also represents companies in the energy and telecom sector in important arbitration disputes. Furthermore, GOLD Abogados has played an important role in advising international clients in a significant number of commercial litigations in Spain.

Contact: Raúl Da Veiga (Partner)

Tel:+34 91 391 1072

Email: [email protected]

Labor Law: The Labor Law Department, led by Ignacio Marín de la Bárcena, has a highly specialized team with extensive experience in all branches of labor law, both from the point of view of the company and the employee, and from the point of view of the individual and collective relationship.

Labor attorneys provide services to individuals and companies who require counsel regarding employment relationships, individual and collective terminations (including termination where commercial elements may be mixed), implementation of restructuring plans and designing and negotiating collective bargaining agreements, designing non-competition and other typical agreements, labor law issues in connection with due diligence procedures and audit matters, variable compensation plans, stock option plans, codes of conduct (participation in the design and implementation process of a number of internal Human Resources policies

Contact: Ignacio Marín de la Bárcena (Counsel

Tel: +34 91 391 1072

Email: [email protected]