Rafael Molina

Rafael’s recent signature experience includes advising:

Real Estate M&A

• Aedas Homes on the acquisition of Promociones y Propiedades Inmobiliarias Espacio (PRIESA) from Grupo Villar Mir
• Avenue Europe on the sale of a majority stake in a group of companies which own and operate 7 hospitality assets located in Calviá (Mallorca) to ADIA, including several restaurants, night clubs and a shopping center
• Activum on:
  • Selling two plots of land for the development and construction of two data centers in Vicálvaro and Meco (Madrid) 
  • Selling the Hard Rock Hotel in Madrid to Arlaes Management
  • Acquiring Hotel Nobu, located in Barcelona’s emblematic Torre Catalunya, from Selenta Group 
• Bank of America and Oak Hill Advisors on the sale of Hotel Presidente (Ibiza) to Meridia Capital 
• Pradera on acquiring a portfolio of six hypermarkets and retail galleries leased to Eroski
• Blackbrook Capital on acquiring a portfolio of 22 supermarkets
• Cerberus on:
  • Acquiring 80% of BBVA’s real estate business
  • The takeover bid for 100% of the shares of Optimum RE, a Spanish REIT
  • Acquiring three logistics real estate assets across Spain from Invermik, with a total built area of approximately 100,000 square meters
  • The €3.4 billion acquisition of 80% of Banco Sabadell’s real estate portfolio
• Apollo on creating a hotel platform and that platform’s acquisition of several hotels, including a hotel complex in Málaga from Meliá Hotels International
• Tristan Capital Partners on its joint venture with Acciona to develop an office complex in Barcelona

Finance

• KKR as lender in the asset back financing to acquire lease receivables originated by Drivel Revel, a car leasing and rental company 
• Waterfall Asset Management in a senior facilities agreement to refinance the acquisition of four portfolios of NPLs and REOs
• Goldman Sachs on the financing for the acquisition of six performing and re-performing loan portfolios by Balbec Capital Management
• Activum on:
  • The financing to develop the first Hard Rock Hotel in continental Europe
  • The credit facility provided by Banco de Sabadell to refinance the acquisition costs and finance the development costs of the Hampton by Hilton Hotel in Barcelona
• A syndicate of lenders on the financing for the acquisition of Aelca by Vía Célere, a Värde Partners portfolio company
• A financial entity on the €150 million equipment lease receivables financing for Portuguese operator Liqui.do
• Pictet on acquiring and subsequently financing two buildings in Paseo de la Castellana (Madrid)

Loan Portfolio Transactions

• Apollo on the acquisition of a portfolio of secured NPLs from CaixaBank (Project Oxygen)
• Cerberus on: 
  • Acquiring a portfolio of NPLs in Spain from Caixabank (Project Backgammon)
  • Acquiring a portfolio of consumer and SMEs NPLs secured by 2,300 real estate assets from Unicaja Banco (Project Aloe)
  • Acquiring and financing a portfolio of NPLs acquired to Kutxabank and CajaSur (Project Lezama)
• A financial entity on acquiring a €300 million portfolio of performing and sub-performing consumer loans
• An investment bank on the proposed acquisition of a €500 million performing consumer loan portfolio