Álvaro Manzanos
Álvaro Manzanos
Biography
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.
Experience
Some representative examples of Álvaro's experience include advising:
Investindustrial (private equity firm) on its acquisition of a majority stake (up to 100% of the share capital) in Asociación de Industrias Alicantinas del Helado y Derivados, S.A. (Grupo Alacant), one of the leading independent ice cream manufacturers in Spain focused predominantly on private label ice cream for modern retail clients and on co-manufacturing for leading branded ice cream players.
Waterland Private Equity in the acquisition of a significant stake in the capital of Auren Holding SP, S.L.P., a multidisciplinary professional services firm in Spain, specializing in audit, legal advisory, consulting and corporate finance services.
Solaria Energía y Medioambiente, S.A., in the sale of 50% of Generia Land, S.L. to Stonepeak and the implementation of a joint venture agreement for the acquisition of land parcels for renewable energy and battery projects to be leased. Generia and Solaria have agreed to create a vehicle that will invest up to EUR 250 million.
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales, S.A. from Spanish construction group Sacyr S.A. (Sacyr).
Waterland Private Equity on its acquisition of 50% of the shares of Montronic Vic, S.L.
Naviera Bandama, S.L. and the Armas family in the restructuring transaction over Naviera Armas Trasmediterranea (NAT), one of the main shipping/ commercial ferry operators in Spain.
Blantyre Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in the Spanish transport group ESP Solutions.
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*.
China Tianying on the acquisition of Urbaser from ACS*.
*Experience prior to joining White & Case