About

Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica is a Spanish manufacturer of wind turbines and other renewable energy equipment and a leading constructor of wind farms. Based in Madrid, the Spanish wind-farm developer’s legal team is led by general counsel and director of legal services Juan Antonio García Fuente who previously reduced legal costs through outside-counsel management and headed Gamesa’s acquisition of AREVA’s offshore wind-business in 2016 for €60m. The legal team has undertaken some important initiatives in recent months, reviewing its contracting structures to improve its monitoring of global risks – particularly important for a company with subsidiaries in Latin America, India and China. Javier Cabezudo Pueyo, general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa has been recognised as an outstanding projects lawyer but nominators praised the wider team for its contribution to Gamesa’s global operations. Gamesa’s electronics division – Gamesa Electric – develops and manufactures equipment for conventional energy production and other industrial applications. In March 2017, Gamesa and Siemens were granted unconditional clearance from the European competition authorities, opening the way for their merger to create a combined business that will have 70GW of installed capacity worldwide and expected revenues of over €10bn a year. The new company’s onshore business will be based in Spain, with offshore units based in Germany and Denmark.