Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance possesses ‘extensive knowledge and experience in capital markets transactions’, including the full range of equity and equity-linked products, from IPOs to rights issues, private placements, and delistings. Financial institutions and major Spanish corporates regularly seek the team’s advice on cross-border transactions and innovative structures. Working in close collaboration with the firm’s tax and real estate specialists, the team is also well versed in SOCIMIs (Spanish real estate investment trusts)-related capital markets matters. Eduardo García heads up the global financial markets practice, where Javier García de Enterría and senior associate Francisco Pizarro are names to note for ECM deals.
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‘The Clifford Chance team has extensive knowledge and experience in capital markets transactions, providing innovative and effective solutions. The relationship with the client is one of its strong points. Without a doubt, it is one of the great references in the Spanish market.’
‘The extensive experience in relevant transactions gives them a very in-depth knowledge of this space, which is of great help to our day-to-day operations. They propose innovative and useful ideas as well as already tested structures that work.’
Key clients
- Cellnex Telecom
- Citigroup
- CaixaBank
- EQT
- JPMorgan
- Mansfield Invests SOCIMI
Work highlights
- Advised an international banking syndicate on the €9.4bn initial public offering of Porsche AG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
- Advised Cellnex on a capital increase of €1.352m, which was fully subscribed by CK Hutchison and implied the issuance of 27,147,651 million shares which started trading on the Spanish Stock Exchanges on 11 November 2022.
- Advised the managers on the English and Spanish law issues concerning the issue by Redeia (Red Eléctrica Corporación, S.A.) of €500m 5.5 Year Non-Call Undated Deeply Subsordinated Reset Rate Securities.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Eduardo García