Squire Patton Boggs' banking and financial services team handles a broad range of transactional work, including acquisition, project, corporate, and real estate finance, as well as debt restructuring and trade receivables financing. Lenders, borrowers, sponsors and funds regularly turn to Manuel Mingot for advice on domestic and cross-border financings, including project finance, direct lending, and debt restructuring mandates. José Luis Iriarte Ruiz is another name to note for acquisition, export and trade finance. Former co-head Pablo Rodríguez Abelenda is no longer at the firm.
Testimonials
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‘Cross-cutting knowledge. It is not limited only to financial matters, which is its core, but also to other important disciplines to complement the advice, such as registry/mortgage and (ii) administrative law (licenses, urban planning, etc.)'
‘José María Pérez Prat - Knowing what outsourcing means for in-house lawyers, they lead and take on very direct responsibility for the negotiation and drafting of contracts.'
Key clients
- Meliá Hoteles
- NORD/LB
Work highlights
- Advised on the granting of a corporate loan financing to Meliá Hoteles instrumented through the sale of 38% of a portfolio of relevant hotels of the group to Santander for €300m and the subsequent granting of intra-group downstream financing to the Meliá Group.