About

Abengoa is an IBEX 35 listed Spanish multinational company that creates innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors. Since joining in 2010, Pablo Echenique Conde has led some of the company’s most significant deals. Examples include the closing of a “bet-the-company” $2bn deal with EIG, a private equity fund, to invest in a number of projects. ‘It was a very big challenge’ he says. ‘I had to bring together a team of external counsel capable of delivering top-quality work in three months’ time, for a transaction that would normally take five to six months. We worked round the clock for three months and I coordinated in-house and external counsel from five different jurisdictions’. Prior to his in-house career, Echenique Conde was part of the corporate legal department of Uría Menéndez and he has strived to invest the knowledge he gained through private practice into Abengoa’s legal department. ‘I have tried to bring into the company the way that law firms work, where one lead lawyer is assisted by a junior. Team work is essential in such a demanding company where time pressure is as high as in law firm’. Apart from his role in Abengoa, Echenique Conde is an active fellow of the Aspen Institute of Spain.