Mr Augusto Piñel > Gómez-Acebo & Pombo > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo’s ‘excellent’ M&A practice has handled transactions across a broad range of sectors recently, including in the hospitality, insurance, retail, technology, pharmaceutical and energy industries. Iñigo Erláiz has specialist experience in respect of restructuring and insolvency-led transactions; he leads the practice jointly with Fernando de las Cuevas, a lawyer who is particularly focused on inbound work, serving as co-head of the French desk and lead of the China desk. Guillermo Guerra Martín is the resident takeover bid and corporate governance expert; meanwhile, Augusto Piñel is the go-to for deals in the financial services sector, often working alongside the finance and tax practices on the structuring and financing of major deals.

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo‘s increasingly diverse offering in debt capital markets has grown to cover areas including investment grade debt offerings, high-yield bonds and private placements. The team stands out for providing frequent counsel to US private placement investors in Spanish transactions, and for its longstanding securitisation practice. Practice co-head Guillermo Guerra is recommended by a client as ‘the right partner for a capital markets strategy‘, and his partner in leading the practice is Ferran Foix, who handles cross-border work and divides his time between Madrid and London. Augusto Piñel and securitisations specialist Fernando Herrero are also key contacts.