About

A widely recognised corporate lawyer, Fernando de las Cuevas Terán heads the legal department of Abengoa Solar, the solar energy division of the Spanish multinational corporation Abengoa. He started his career with the top-tier Spanish law firm Garrigues, where he specialised in corporate and project finance. During that time he advised Abengoa on several projects, including the project financing of a transmission line in Peru and the Abengoa corporate syndicated financing in 2005. ‘Eventually, I joined Abengoa as in-house counsel in 2006, in charge of project and corporate financing on the legal side. It was a natural move’, he comments. He was subsequently appointed head of the corporate legal department and in 2011 he assumed his current role as secretary general of Abengoa Solar. Through this role his remit stretches far beyond the legal area, advising other corporate areas and managing relations with stakeholders, board secretary and business development. De las Cuevas Terán played a pivotal role in the company’s international expansion and he currently leads a team of 25 lawyers in Spain, USA, South Africa and Chile. ‘We have been working hard for the expansion of the legal department to new geographies, such as South Africa and more recently Chile, in order to meet the company’s needs, strengthening the project and finance practice, as we are currently using more sophisticated non-recourse schemes and innovative technologies in our projects’ he says.