Experience

ATOM Hoteles

• Spain
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Legal Counsel

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  General Legal Counsel & Compliance Officer of ATOM HOTELES SOCIMI, S.A. (i.e. the leading, Spanish listed REIT, focused on Hotels and whose strategic partner is the Spanish banking group: Bankinter).Organize the Legal team. Exponential improvement of the compliance systems.Advise on a day-to-day basis on legal & compliance issues as well as on purchases and sales of hotels (including its financing and structuring), whether structured as asset or share deals, individual hotels or portfolios of hotels. Direct the COVID litigation (i.e the rebus sic stantibus cases). Member of the Executive Committee.



GMA Corporate

• Spain
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Legal Counsel / Compliance Officer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  General Legal Counsel & Compliance Officer of GMA (the Spanish leading Hotels manager of REITs). The managed funds include ATOM HOTELES SOCIMI and VICTORIA & HOTELS RESORTS.Organize the Legal team & devise and implement the compliance system.Advise on a day-to-day basis on legal & compliance issues as well as on purchases and sales of hotels (including its financing and structuring), whether structured as asset or share deals, individual hotels or portfolios of hotels. General Legal Counsel & Compliance Officer of GMA (the Spanish leading Hotels manager of REITs). The managed funds include ATOM HOTELES SOCIMI and VICTORIA & HOTELS RESORTS.Organize the Legal team & devise and implement the compliance system.Advise on a day-to-day basis on legal & compliance issues as well as on purchases and sales of hotels (including its financing and structuring), whether structured as asset or share deals, individual hotels or portfolios of hotels.



Ambar Partners

• Spain
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

  Ambar es la nueva firma de servicios legales alternativos en España y, próximamente, en Latinoamérica. Ambar trae una nueva forma de prestar servicios jurídicos con talento legal de primer nivel, de forma flexible, bajo demanda, con la última tecnología. Llegamos de la mano de Axiom para ofrecer a nuestros clientes acceso a su red global de abogados y sus herramientas de gestión www.ambarpartners.com Ambar es la nueva firma de servicios legales alternativos en España y, próximamente, en Latinoamérica. Ambar trae una nueva forma de prestar servicios jurídicos con talento legal de primer nivel, de forma flexible, bajo demanda, con la última tecnología. Llegamos de la mano de Axiom para ofrecer a nuestros clientes acceso a su red global de abogados y sus herramientas de gestión www.ambarpartners.com



Autónomo

• Spanish Lawyer/English Solicitor/ General, Transactional & Compliance Legal Advice

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2021



Pacha Group

• Spain
• Entertainment Providers
• 200 - 300 Employee

• General Legal Counsel/Compliance Officer / General Secretary

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

  Setting up and managing the Legal & Compliance Department (as well as the foundation) from its acquisition by Trilantic up to the COVID season.Advising, both the controlling shareholder (Trilantic) and the Group on a wide variety of issues centered upon Business Law (e.g. mergers & acquisitions, banking & finance, compliance, all sorts of agreements/resolutions and miscellaneous legal issues). Acting as General Secretary of the Group and the Foundation (whose corporate structure was modelled over a listed company model).



Lexlictor

• Founding Lawyer

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2017

  Advising clients on a wide variety of issues centred upon Business & Civil Law. Advising clients on a wide variety of issues centred upon Business & Civil Law.



King & Wood Mallesons

• Hong Kong
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Founding Lawyer

  • Oct 1999 - Dec 2013

  Setting up the law firm in Madrid from scratch (becoming the most recognised law firm for private equity funds).Director of the Institutional Clients’ Practice (i.e. financial institutions, corporate groups and listed companies).Advising institutional clients in day to day general advice, compliance & transactional work, having directed the practice for the most relevant clients & transactions (e.g. the most contended take over bids in Spain and most important transactions in the firm’s history: Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico and Telepizza and first and second private equity funds of funds in Spain: Altamar and Arcano).



Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate

  • Jan 1997 - Oct 1999

  Corporate Finance. Advising institutional clients in corporate finance transactions and compliance. First and second securitizations of Freshfields in Madrid and first listing advising, both the domestic and international tranche. Corporate Finance. Advising institutional clients in corporate finance transactions and compliance. First and second securitizations of Freshfields in Madrid and first listing advising, both the domestic and international tranche.



World Bank Group

• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legal Analyst (internship)

  • Oct 1996 - Dec 1996

  Legal Department. Project Finance and Political Risk Insurance. Legal Department. Project Finance and Political Risk Insurance.



J.Y. Hernandez-Canut Bufete de Abogados S.L.P.

• Spain
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate

  • 1995 - 1996

  Abogado. After joining the Madrid Bar Association in 1995, kick-off professional experience in the Business Law Practice. Abogado. After joining the Madrid Bar Association in 1995, kick-off professional experience in the Business Law Practice.