His practice is focused on banking and finance, energy law and project finance. During his stay in London, Juan advised some of the leading international investment banks on setting up products for, and deals in, the Spanish market, whilst retaining a direct involvement in all areas of energy law. In the wake of the recent liberalisation of the Spanish energy markets, Juan has been advising on many legal “firsts” in those markets, particularly on energy supply and trading, third party access to electricity and gas infrastructures, as well as on the development of new CCGT plants. Some of his most significant transactions include advising :

• a power company on the refinancing of a 325 MW combined cycle facility for the gasification of coal. This was the only combined cycle plant constructed and financed in Spain during the 1990’s;
• international energy companies in setting up their wholesale supply operations in Spain;
• international sponsors in the development of new CCGT plants;
• project companies on the development of an integrated LNG regasification and CCGT power plant in Spain, including the financing of the LNG terminal through a Euro 200 million financing covered by a monoline insurance policy;
• lending syndicates on the financings of groups of mini-hydro power stations;
• the sponsors of the first windfarm financed privately through debt and equity in the South of Spain;
• a leading British bank in the sale of its Spanish subsidiary;
• an international development bank on all its Peseta-denominated bonds issues;
• to the lending institutions, in performing a due diligence of one of the main telecommunications operator in Spain in the context of a 4.5 billion Euro financing (2004);
• to the lending institutions, in the financing of 1.25 billion Euro to a cable telecommunications operator (2005);
• private fund on the acquisition of a Spanish power transmission network (2002);
• an electricity company on the development and financing of the first independent project (IPP) of a combined cycle plant developed in Spain with a total installed capacity of 755 MW, to the value of Euro 690 million; and
• a developer on the development and financing through a project finance of Euro 665 million of a 1200 MW CCGT power station, the largest CCGT in Spain to date.

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