Ignacio Álvarez Couso > Uría Menéndez > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Uría Menéndez Offices
PRÍNCIPE DE VERGARA 187
PLAZA RODRÍGUEZ URÍA
28002 MADRID
Spain
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Ignacio Álvarez Couso
Work Department
Banking and Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, MA
Career
Ignacio Álvarez is partner in the Madrid office of Uría Menéndez. Ignacio joined the firm in 2010 and between January and July 2016, he was seconded to the London office of the US firm Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he worked in the Capital Markets Group as an international associate.
Ignacio’s practice is focused on financing and debt restructuring transactions, M&A and energy law. Likewise, Ignacio has been involved in in transactions involving the sale of non-strategic assets of financial institutions, such as non-performing loans, real estate assets and asset management platforms.
Some of Ignacio’s most significant recent highlights include advising international investors on the acquisition of solar PV portfolios and disposal of and investments in gas distribution companies as well as advising sponsors on the restructuring of energy project financings.
Languages
English
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association
Lawyer Rankings
Spain > Projects and energy
The projects and energy team at Uría Menéndez ‘combines excellent and multidisciplinary technical knowledge with great negotiating skills’, offering expertise across regulatory, M&A, and financing matters in the solar and wind power segments. Wind and solar power expert Ignacio Álvarez Couso co-leads the team, assisting renewable energy operators on large-scale financings and acting for industrial companies on power purchase agreements. The practice is also co-headed by Juan Ignacio González Ruiz 
, who advises energy market players on corporate, transactional, and contentious matters. José Félix Zaldívar de la Rica bolsters the team in energy sector corporate and project finance work, while Roberto Fernández brings longstanding expertise in regulatory and contentious matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Environment
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: TMT
- Transport: Other transport
- Private equity
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: Debt
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Manufacturing
- Industry focus: Retail
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks
- Projects and energy
- Transport: Shipping
- White-collar crime
- Financial services regulatory