People
Jimena Urretavizcaya
Biography
Jimena has extensive experience in domestic and international financing transactions, focusing on in leveraged finance, real estate finance and restructuring.
She has also advised in multiple project finance transactions, in sectors such as renewable energies and LNG, and in several asset financings. Her experience also covers securitisation transactions in Spain, advising on high profile international securitisations of debt portfolios (in particular relating to RPLs) in the last few years.
Jimena regularly advises the key creditors in these fields, including national and international banks, funds, direct lenders and sponsors.
Jimena is recommended for her excellent work in Chambers & Partners from 2011 to date and Legal 500. She has recently been selected as one of the most prominent lawyers in the Spanish market by IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021.
Jimena is the Inclusion Partner and leads the Pro Bono Committee of A&O Shearman in Spain.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Project development and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- Restructuring insolvency and capital solutions
- Fund finance
Sectors
- Energy
- Infrastructure and transport
- Banks
- Real estate
- Ports
- Rail
- Roads
- Private equity
Selected experience
- Sacyr as a shareholder of Grupo Unidos por el Canal, (GUPC) (the project company tasked with expanding and upgrading the Panama canal to, among others, the new Panamax standard) in the USD173m CESCE backed financing for GUPC of the eligible costs in relation to the project works.
- The lenders on the restructuring of Pepe Jeans.
- Cheyne Capital Management (UK) LLP in a development financing granted for the purposes of, among others, financing part of the cost of the acquisition and development of two residential/co-living properties located at Valdebebas and Vallecas, in Madrid, Spain.
- A global financial institution, CACIB and Bawag on the financing granted to HIP Partners (Blackstone) for the purposes of refinancing the existing debt used to acquire several hotels and properties in Spain.
- The pool of banks in the EUR 3.5 billion financing of INEOS for the purposes of the construction and operation of the most environmentally sustainable cracker in Europe within its petrochemical plant in Antwerp. Twenty-one commercial banks and export credit agencies from the UK (UKEF), Spain (CESCE) and Italy (SACE) have participated in this cross-border transaction.
Education
- Degree, European & International Law, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, 2002
- European Law Course, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999
- Law Degree, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 2001
Admissions
- Admitted as abogado, Spain, 2002
Languages
- English
- Spanish