Álvaro Manzanos

Local Partner, Madrid

Biography

Overview

Álvaro Manzanos is a partner in the Firm´s Global M&A / Corporate Group in Madrid.

His areas of practice include cross-border and domestic private M&A and private equity transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and transactional corporate work for a range of listed and unlisted clients, including corporates, private equity houses and sovereign and pension funds.

Álvaro has participated in many of the most significant private M&A and private equity transactions executed in Spain over the last ten years.

Bars and Courts
Spain (Abogado)
Education
BA
Law
Universidad Pontificia de Comillas

Madrid, Spain

Languages
Spanish
English
French

Experience

  • Naviera Bandama, S.L. and its main shareholders in the context of a restructuring transaction over Naviera Armas Trasmediterranea (NAT), one of the main shipping / commercial ferry operators in Spain. Naviera Bandama, S.L. is the investment vehicle of its main shareholders into Naviera Armas Trasmediterránea.
  • Blantyre Capital Limited, a special situations investment firm, on its acquisition of a majority stake in the Spanish transport group ESP Solutions, specialized in the refrigerated transport industry in Spain.
  • China Tianying on the sale of Urbaser to Platinum Equity*.
  • Merlin Properties on the sale of its portfolio of bank branches and singular buildings to BBVA*.
  • Novartis on the transfer to Siegfried of two sites located in Spain dedicated to the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products*.
  • CRCC on the acquisition of a controlling stake in Aldesa*.
  • Merlin Properties on the joint venture with a US developer of data centers for the creation and operation of a portfolio of data centers*.
  • Orient Hontai Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Imagina Media Audiovisual*.
  • Bahrain Mumtalakat on its investment in Premo*.
  • CPPIB on the rollover of its investment in Dorna Sports*.
  • China Tianying on the acquisition of Urbaser from ACS*.
  • Merlin Properties on its integration with Metrovacesa*.

*Prior to joining White & Case.

Publications

Chapter for "Anuario Práctica Mercantil para Abogados, los casos más relevantes en 2017" about the demerger as a way of integration of listed companies. June 2017