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Marta Villar
Biography
Marta advises on a wide range of public law and regulatory matters including energy, environmental, transports and infrastructures, public procurement, zoning and planning, telecommunications, and other regulated sectors in Spain.
She advises national and international companies in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, merger and acquisitions, due diligence processes and project finance regarding regulatory matters and regulated sectors industries.
She also advises on all kinds of administrative proceedings (regulatory approvals, administrative appeals, sanctioning proceedings, etc.) and judicial proceedings (contentious-administrative appeals, cassation appeals, etc.) and acts for clients before judges and courts (including the Supreme Court) in administrative and regulatory matters.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Administrative and public law
- Environmental
- Sanctions and international trade
Selected experience
- Sandfire Resources Limited on its acquisition and funding of the Minas de Aguas Teñidas S.A. (MATSA) mining complex from Mubadala Investment Company (50%) and Trafigura (50%) for USD1.865bn. This transaction won Deal of the Year in the 2022 MNN Awards.
- Bruc Opt Energy Partners, S.L. on recurring acquisitions from Ingeniería y Planificación Sostenible, S.L.U. of photovoltaic projects in Spain with a total capacity of 1.2 GW.
- Abertis Infraestructuras S.A. on the acquisition of the Autovía del Camino, S.A.U. shadow toll highway concession in Spain.
- Crea Madrid Nuevo Norte, S.A. (before, Distrito Castellana Norte) on contentious administrative proceedings before the courts in relation to the largest urban regeneration Project in Europe (i.e. Operación Chamartín).
- Alsa. S.A., the largest bus operator in Spain, integrated in National Express, on public procurement consultations and contentious administrative proceedings before the courts.
Education
- Master’s Degree for the Admission to the Spanish Bar, specialty in public policies, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas-ICADE, 2019
- Double Degree in Law and International Relation, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas-ICADE, 2018
Admissions
- Abogado, Spain, 2020
Languages
- English
- Spanish