Pablo Mendez
Counsel
Madrid
Pablo Mendez
Counsel
Madrid
Contact Details
Pablo has extensive experience advising national and international clients, including founders, on M&A, joint ventures and partner agreements, W&I insurance policies, MIP and reinvestment structures, reorganizations, contracts and corporate governance in various sectors, with special emphasis on private equity, infrastructure, energy and TMT.
He also has extensive experience in coordinating legal due diligence processes in relation to complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Corporate Legal Course, IE Law School Executive Education, 2011
LL.M., Full scholarship granted by IE Law School based on good performance, William & Mary – Marshall Wythe Law School, 2010
LL.M., Legal Practice (“Master en Asesoría Jurídica de Empresas”), IE Law School, 2009
Law Degree and Diploma in Business Studies, Comillas Pontifical University – (ICADE University - E1), 2008
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Experience highlights
Advising EQT Future Fund on the acquisition of a significant minority stake in SNFL and the indirect acquisition, together with SNFL’s current shareholders (AM FRESH Group and Paine Schwartz Partners), of International Fruit Genetics’ business.
Advising EQT on the sale of Adamo Telecom, open access rural fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) platform in Spain.
Advising Infracapital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Endesa Soluciones (energy efficiency solutions platform) from Endesa Energía and on their joint venture arrangements.
Advising a large global investment manageron the sale of Grupo Axión (including dark fibre platform Axent), a neutral telecommunications operator with a special presence in Andalusia, to Asterion Industrial Partners.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
Corporate Legal Course, IE Law School Executive Education, 2011
LL.M., Full scholarship granted by IE Law School based on good performance, William & Mary – Marshall Wythe Law School, 2010
LL.M., Legal Practice (“Master en Asesoría Jurídica de Empresas”), IE Law School, 2009
Law Degree and Diploma in Business Studies, Comillas Pontifical University – (ICADE University - E1), 2008
Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- Advent, via its investee Circet, on the acquisition of Instalaciones y Tendidos Telefónicos, S.A. (ITETE Conecta), O&M telecommunications infrastructure supplier.
- EQT on the acquisition of a majority stake in Freepik, a leading platform offering graphic resources.
- Advent, via its investee Circet, on the acquisition of Cableven a telecommunications infrastructure service provider in charge of network deployment and maintenance and installation activities.
- Axión Infraestructuras in the constitution of Axent, a Spanish joint venture with Enagás to develop and offer telecommunications transport services on fibre and radio platforms.
- Axión Infraestructuras in the constitution of a Spanish joint venture with Wireless Infrastructure Group Limited for the deployment of DaS and small cells.
- Waterland on its Spanish add-on consisting on the acquisition of the Bynsa Group, a benchmark company in Spain in the pet food sector specialised in private label.
- Apax on its Spanish add-on consisting on the acquisition of Grupo Ibersnacks, Spanish-based chips and snacks manufacturer specialised in private label.
- Viscofan, the BME listed global leader in the manufacturing, production and distribution of casings for the meat industry, on the acquisition of the Supralon Group with subsidiaries in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and France.
- A large global investment manager in its investment for the acquisition of Axión Infraestructuras de Telecomunicaciones, S.A.U., national wholesale operator of telecommunication infrastructures and services.
- EQT Infrastructure on its sale of Spanish off-street car park operator Parkia to First State Investments’ managed infrastructure fund.
Published work
- Spain reaffirms itself as a key destination for foreign investment, El Economista - Capital Privado, 2021
- First registered EU cross-border demerger in the Commercial Registry of Madrid, Corporate practice for lawyers, 2017
- Recent changes in corporate governance, Revista de Derecho de Sociedades, 2014
Awards & accolades
Finalist in 2021 and 2022
Iberian Lawyer forty under 40 awards
