Commended for its ‘high availability and knowledge of the market and players’, the banking and financial services team at Squire Patton Boggs undertakes a variety of transactional work in this space, including acquisition, project, corporate and real estate finance. Other areas of expertise for the group, which is under the joint leadership of Manuel Mingot and Pablo Rodríguez Abelenda, include debt restructuring and trade receivables financing transactions. Widely recommended by clients, Mingot is counsel of choice for lenders, borrowers, sponsors and funds in domestic and cross-border financings, including project finance, direct lending and debt restructuring, while Rodríguez is a reference for real estate finance work. José Luis Iriarte Ruiz joined from Clifford Chance in December 2022, reinforcing the firm’s corporate, acquisition, project and real estate finance capabilities.
Testimonials
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‘Good professionals who are very involved and who allow true outsourcing. Advanced technological tools and closing of the transaction with excellent organisation of the documentary package. ’
‘Very high availability and knowledge of the market and players. Always provide quality advice for our transactions.’
‘Manuel Mingot is available and knowledgeable of the market and players.'
‘Manuel Mingot and his team have very important flexibility. In the transaction we carried out they collaborated both in contractual drafting and legal due diligence tasks, the scope of which were very quickly adapted.’
‘Manuel Mingot is a professional with a lot of experience and a great partner.’
Key clients
- Banco Santander
- Eiffel Investment Group
- Oquendo Capital
- NORD/LB
- Banco Sabadell
- CaixaBank
- Logicalis
- Raiffeisen
- Bankinter
- BBVA
Work highlights
- Advised Banco Santander on a €500m working capital financing of invoice advances and trade receivables financing under RPA format to Axpo Iberia.
- Advised infra-asset manager Eiffel Investment Group on a corporate portfolio financing facility granted to Capital Energy Holding, disbursed by Eiffel through the subscription and disbursement of €100m at parent company level of Capital Energy.
- Acted for a German state bank as lender’s counsel in the granting of €91m non-recourse senior secured project facilities to a Spanish SPV of the Irish NTR group.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Manuel Mingot, Pablo Rodríguez Abelenda