EXPERIENCE

José Maria’s experience includes representing:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Viasat, a global satellite operator, in obtaining global antitrust and foreign investment approvals for the US$7.3 billion acquisition of Inmarsat
• Grail, a healthcare company, in its planned US$8 billion acquisition by Illumina
• Platinum Equity in acquiring Urbaser, a leading provider of environmental services, from China Tianying for a €3.5 billion enterprise value
• Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) in the all-cash voluntary friendly tender offer by SIX Group, the Swiss financial markets infrastructure operator, for €2.8 billion
• The Carlyle Group in merger control aspects related to acquiring a US$4.8 billion minority stake in Cepsa
• KKR in acquiring distressed industrial company Grupo Gallardo and its subsequent sale to Spanish holding Cristian Lay
• Triton Partners in securing the European Commission’s the merger clearance to acquire Fertiberia
• Genstar Capital and its portfolio company BBB Industries in acquiring a 100% stake in M&R Precision Parts, an automotive components manufacturer, from Abac Capital

Antitrust & Competition

• Ferrovial, before the Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), in a competition case concerning a potential infringement in the construction market
• Repsol in several antitrust matters in Spain and the EU 
• Urbaser in a CNMC investigation into the waste management and transportation market
• Egeda in the context of tariff setting of intellectual property rights of audiovisual producers subject to collective management
• Logista, before the CNMC, in an investigation involving an exchange of information in Spain’s cigarette manufacturing and distribution market
• Mastercard in competition matters before the CNMC and regulatory issues concerning payment services in Spain 
• Santillana (PRISA) in a CNMC investigation into Spain’s publishing industry