José Christian Bertram > Ashurst LLP > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Ashurst LLP’s energy transition and projects team brings ‘real proactivity, availability, knowledge, and problem-solving skills’ to energy companies, project operators, and investors. Practice head Andrés Alfonso is a key adviser to project developers and operators on M&A, joint ventures, and investments across the energy and infrastructure spaces. Within the solar power sector, banking and finance specialists Nick Pawson and José Christian Bertram lead the team in assisting major domestic sponsors and lenders in acquisition and project finance mandates.

Ashurst LLP‘s banking and finance department in Spain possesses a ‘very high level of technical understanding of complex legal and structuring matters’, offering expertise to both lenders and borrowers in leveraged and structured finance, asset-backed deals, export and trade finance, and securitisations. The team is particularly active in the financing of infrastructure and energy projects and has a strong track record in real estate finance. José Christian Bertram leads the department and is a reference for structured finance mandates. English-qualified partner Nick Pawson is experienced in managing cross-border transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate lending, and refinancings. Irian Saleta Martínez is active in financing deals in the energy and real estate sectors.

The restructuring group at Ashurst LLP handles pre-insolvency matters, including refinancings and distressed M&A transactions, as well as insolvency proceedings. Investment banks, distressed investors, hedge funds, lending banks, private equity houses and services companies routinely feature on its client roster. Managing partner Jorge Vázquez steers the practice and specialises in corporate, private equity and restructuring transactions. Also noted is José Christian Bertram, who handes acquisition finance, restructurings and refinancings.

Supported by an English finance law team in Madrid, Ashurst LLP leverages its cross-border capabilities to provide critical advice to lenders and borrowers involved in private equity transactions. The team notably focuses on buy-outs and fund structuring deals. Jorge Vázquez has extensive experience advising investment funds on M&A and private equity transactions. José Christian Bertram‘s practice spans a range of structured finance deals essential to the establishment and operation of investment funds.