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Elena Aguilar

Partner
Co-Head of the CMS Infrastructure & Projects Group // Global Co-Head of Digital Communications Infrastructure IFG

CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo
Paseo de Recoletos 7–9
28004 Madrid
Spain
Languages Spanish, English

Elena Aguilar is a Partner of the Corporate / M&A department at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo.  She currently co-heads the CMS Infrastructure & Projects Group. She specialises in corporate law, with a particular focus on domestic and international M&A, advice to private equity funds and commercial agreements. Moreover, she has a proven track record in restructuring, refinancing and securities market transactions and acts as secretary to numerous boards of directors.

Elena's international experience included working at a prestigious Spanish firm's Buenos Aires office (Argentina) advising foreign investors on their interests in Latin America.

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Relevant experience

  • Bank restructuring fund | Advice on the sale of a Spanish bank to a world-leading Spain-based financial institution.
  • Canadian pension fund | Advice on the sale of its stake in a listed Spanish telecommunications group to a leading telecoms multinational.
  • Global service station network | Advice on the acquisition of the companies operating the properties and businesses of 65 Spain-based petrol stations and owned by an international private equity fund.
  • International private equity fund | Advice on the acquisition of a 75% stake in a leading parts distribution group.
  • Luxembourg-based investor group | Advice on the acquisition of a 65.9% stake in a Spanish sustainable fashion brand.
  • Restaurant chain driving growth across Europe | Advice on the sale to a listed Japanese company of a 75% stake in its business selling sushi to supermarkets.
  • Spanish sustainable fashion brand | Advice on the creation of a joint venture with a listed Japanese company in order to develop the brand in Japan.
  • World-leading oil multinational | Advice on the acquisition of shares and properties through which a Spanish developer operated 14 petrol stations across Spain.
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Lectures list

  • Elena regularly delivers lectures as part of the Master's Degree in Access to the Legal Profession at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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Education

  • 2006 - Degree in Business Management, Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICADE, Madrid (Spain).
  • 2005 - Graduate of Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICADE, Madrid (Spain).
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31/01/2024
TMT World Congress 2024
CMS lawyers are pleased to be attending the TMT World Congress 2024 held in London on 31 January - 01 February. Below you can find an overview of our attending partners, representing a large range of jurisdictions and practice areas. To arrange a meeting, please contact the individual lawyers directly. Additionally, Anne Chitan will moderate the M&A Panel - Assessing what’s next for Transactions amid Continued Macro Headwinds, Wednesday 31 January (10:55 – 11:35). At CMS, we have some of Europe’s leading legal specialists in the technology, media and communications sector. Our Digital Communications Infrastructure Team combines exceptional expertise in project and structured finance, competition regulation and large-scale investment, while our market-leading tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions team has decades of experience in the technology and communications space, including strong expertise in the areas of fibre, towers, subsea cables, network sharing, data centres and satellite. To find out more about CMS Digital Communications Infrastructure cap­ab­il­it­ies, vis­it our Digital Communications Infrastructure section. For further information, please see our partners attending the congress in the gallery below and an overview of all our expertise areas.
07/11/2023
CMS Infrastructure Index: Partnerships, policies and geopolitics
The Infrastructure Index is designed to help investors understand the environment they may encounter in 50 different jurisdictions. Data from the 50 jurisdictions was analysed against nine key criteria to create a guide to the most attractive destinations for infrastructure investment. We also look at developments in some of the nations included in the Infrastructure Index, this year highlighting in particular the situation in our top-ranked country Germany and the need for reconstruction in Ukraine.
24/10/2023
CMS European Energy Sector M&A and Investment Outlook 2024
As the world economy increasingly embraces the push towards decarbonisation, Europe has actively sought to place itself at the vanguard of the discussion on energy trans­ition. Op­por­tun­it­ies to deploy capital abound as power sources switch further towards offshore and onshore wind, solar, heat, hydrogen, battery storage, new networks, carbon capture, and industrial decarbonisation. The latter brings an interface with other sectors such as technology companies (with power hungry data centres a particular focus), real estate, low carbon transport and decarbonisation of industrial processes such as cement, glass and steel production. As much as it is difficult, complex and highly political, the energy transition is also a huge business opportunity. To reach net zero by 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that global investment in clean energy alone will need to increase from the USD390bn in the first half of 2023, to USD 1.3tn in 2030. Many commentators worried that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would put back the transition and shift Europe back towards fossil fuels. While it appears to have resulted in a renewed political focus on energy security it has also laid bare the financial and political consequences of relying on oil & gas imports, giving further impetus to renewables as a secure form of energy. Europe has also sought to be a leading light on the concept of “reaching net zero”, with the European Union (EU) having set out its ambition, back in 2019, to become the world’s first major economic bloc to be climate-neutral by 2050. This has added momentum to energy investment and M&A over recent years – 2021 and 2022 saw the second and third highest annual aggregate values of Western European M&A in the sector on record, at USD 59.8bn and USD 53.7bn, respectively, bested only by the anomalously high total of USD 89.4bn logged in 2018. Energy M&A in the region has been more subdued in 2023, but our survey demonstrates that energy executives are gearing up for a more active dealmaking period, with most expecting more opportunities and anticipating increased levels of investment in the year ahead. Capital looks set to continue to flow primarily to renewable energy projects and related assets, with solar and batteries topping the list of attractive subsectors among our respondents. Consistent with this, South West Europe takes pole position as the most promising region for investment opportunities. But there are thorns among the roses. Our respondents are cognizant of the challenges in the energy market, with supply-chain volatility and commodity price increases emerging as a prominent concern. This is unsurprising after a period of dislocation following the pandemic and amid a time of rising global demand for renewable products and commodities. Persistent inflation and elevated interest rates, combined with an uncertain macroeconomic outlook, are raising investors’ concerns, with financing risk (including the increased cost of financing) also coming to the fore for respondents. Overall, while some sense a recent softening of the market due to these fundamentals, our survey paints a picture of steadily improving investor sentiment in Europe’s energy sector, laying the foundations for a busier period ahead for M&A activity.
04/09/2023
Global CMS Infrastructure Brochure 2023
Creating our connected future Infrastructure is creating our connected future. It is the key to global economic recovery, advancing nations and leading the fight against climate change. In a world of ever-ac­cel­er­at­ing change, staying ahead of the curve and knowing what’s next for your business or sector is essential. Climate change and sustainability are set to be defining issues of our time and a huge amount of infrastructure will need to be built, rebuilt, refurbished or retrofitted to deliver on the promises and ambitions of governments around the world. Infrastructure has always played an important role in ESG, and these considerations are now the rule, not the exception. Net Zero plays a big part in government policy and so the infrastructure sector is giving ESG criteria serious consideration when planning new developments. But there are a number of difficulties in this area, including a lack of agreed standards and reporting requirements. Regulators globally are working to create new ESG requirements, but these will differ across countries and present challenges to those companies operating internationally. Incorporating technology into infrastructure projects will also require a significant step change in policy focus, new financing solutions at both the consumer and portfolio levels, and more research and development to push faster technological innovation. In many regions, there continue to be huge infrastructure gaps. The scale and investment required to plug these infrastructure gaps present a formidable challenge and one in which our clients will play an important part. CMS is here to support you through the legal opportunities and challenges. Having advised many of the biggest players globally across the transport, health, education, waste, energy, defence, I.T./telecoms, leisure, custodial and justice, airports and shipping, rail, roads and water sub-sectors, CMS has the breadth and depth of sector expertise to enable your organisation to thrive.
17/11/2022
The use of confidential information for any purpose other than that agreed...
Victoria Vilar & Candela VillaOn 20th May 2022 the Provincial Court of Barcelona upheld an appeal stating that business information that had been shared under the protection of a confidentiality agreement...
21/06/2022
CMS appoints six new practice and sector group heads
CMS is pleased to announce new heads for four of its international expertise groups. All CMS lawyers work in cross-border groups across more than 40 countries worldwide that are structured according to...
31/05/2022
CMS Infrastructure & Projects Global Brochure
To meet domestic and global growth expectations a huge amount of infrastructure will need to be built, rebuilt, refurbished or retrofitted. The scale and investment required to plug this in­fra­struc­ture...
12/05/2022
CMS Infrastructure & Projects Global Brochure
To meet domestic and global growth expectations a huge amount of infrastructure will need to be built, rebuilt, refurbished or retrofitted. The scale and investment required to plug this in­fra­struc­ture...
27/09/2021
The board of directors can, by means of the bylaws, state what remuneration...
Victoria Vilar The General Directorate of Legal Affairs (hereinafter referred to by Spanish acronym: DGSJyFP) has confirmed the autonomy of the board of directors concerning the remuneration of executive...
01/10/2020
CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo bolsters its Corporate / M&A department...
Madrid, 2 October 2020  CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo has further strengthened its key practice areas with the appointment of Elena Aguilar as a Partner of its Corporate department, currently formed...