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Page 1: Gallego y Martos

March 2011

GET TO KNOW US!

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Index

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About us

Experience

Partners

Contact details

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About us

Our firm is founded on our concern to provide personal legal advice of the highest quality to Spanish and

international companies, family offices, investors and private clients whose special needs require expert legalservices in every branch of Law.

Our aim is to bring to the legal services sector a multidisciplinary consultancy that is focused on both the substantive and

procedural aspects of corporate law, where our top priorities are to provide quality of service, legal certainty anddedicated, personal attention from our lawyers.

We firmly believe in providing a legal service based on the combination of our professional team, dedicated personally toeach client with the lawyer’s traditional self-care, and creating teams of highly skilled specialists, coordinatedand directed by members of the Firm to approach each case with the highest level of quality and dedication to theService.

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Experience

We have a wide range experience in providing corporate

legal services and litigation services to companies andgroups of companies, in the settlement in and out of courtof all kinds of disputes, and in the management of largescale or complex transactions.

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Building on our core competences in corporate law, we work with highlyqualified specialists in tax, employment and administrative law, all ofthem coordinated and managed by the Firm, enabling us to cover fully allaspects of legal advice required for each case with our total guarantee.

“First and foremost, corporate and litigation lawyers ”

“Top specialists at the company's service,

managed by a corporate lawyer with in-depth knowledge of

the business”

“Litigation cannot be separated from deep

knowledge of the substantive applicable law”

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Experience: The firm’s core business (1)

Corporate

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): Due diligence processes, shares and asset sales, private equity transactions (LBOs,MBOs, etc.), venture and seed capital investments, acquisitions of industrial, energy and infrastructure companies andadvice on antitrust.

Legal advice to Managers and Directors: Legal obligations and liabilities, incentive agreements, confidentiality and non-competition agreements, etc.

Corporate general advice: Complex intragroup restructurings, shareholders' agreements, listed companies, corporategovernance, financial entities, private equity, trademarks and patent law, compliance, etc.

Contracts: Turn-key agreements, distribution agreements, sale and purchase agreements, licensing agreements,factoring, etc.

Family offices: Legal advice to family businesses on their internal structures, on the relationship between partners andon succession issues through tailor made family protocols.

Competition: Antitrust, unfair competition and advertising law.

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Experience: The firm’s core business (2)

Litigation

Judicial Proceedings and Arbitration (ad hoc or institutional) regarding, among other issues, contractual and non-

contractual liability, Corporate Law, Antitrust Law, Unfair Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law, advertising,declaration and/or restitution of real estate rights, eviction claims and claims for hidden defects filed by the purchaser,claims regarding construction and buildings, regarding distribution and agency agreements, lease agreements, consumerrights, insurance, rights of honor, privacy and self-image, inheritance matters, etc.

Insolvency

Pre-insolvency advice to companies with financial difficulties.

Private refinancing agreements and negotiations to obtain adherences to anticipated agreements with creditors(“propuestas anticipadas de convenio”).

Insolvency potential director’s and accomplices liability.Debtor Bankruptcy proceedings (“Concursos deAcreedores”) or defence of creditors interests in such procedures.

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Experience: Some of our work (1)

Acquisition of a photovoltaic farm and related contract negotiations for a Spanish investor.

Corporate structure and contractual aspects of investment in renewable energy in Europe for a Chineseinvestor (estimated initial overall investment EUR 15M).

Sale of an international industrial group to an Australian private equity investor, for an amount of EUR 11M.

Acquisition of a Spanish industrial company in financial distress by a German private equity multinational investor(deal value: EUR 21M).

Acquisition of the majority of the shareholding of a Spanish industrial group by a Portuguese private equityinvestor deal value: EUR 4,5M.

Legal review process (“due diligence”) for the acquisition of a Spanish services company (transaction value:EUR 11M).

Legal review process (“due diligence”) for the acquisition of a Spanish industrial group dedicated to high-voltage installations by a Portuguese private equity investor.

Real Estate Legal review process (“due diligence”) for a Spanish industrial group.

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Experience: Some of our work (2)

Judicial controversy regarding alleged breach of contract and rights derived from a radio license on behalf amajor Spanish radiostation (undetermined value).

Judicial proceedings regarding alleged breach of contract in relation to wind farms on behalf of an Europeanenergy multinational (amounting to, approximately, EUR 80M).

Judicial controversy regarding unfair competition between two major juice distribution companies in Spain(undetermined value).

CIMA arbitration procedure regarding alleged breach of contract for a major multinational of the energy sector(aprox. 300k EUR).

ICAM arbitration procedure regarding alleged breach of exclusive distribution contract between majormultinational industrial Australian company and one of its US American distributors.

Judicial criminal procedure regarding intellectual property, company’s know-how and revelation of secretson behalf of Spanis multinational industrial company against former unfaithfull employees.

Bankruptcy proceedings of real estate, industrial and energy sector companies (on behalf of debtors and/orcreditors).

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Partners

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Javier Gallego Larrubia

Law graduate from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with a doctorate in law(Dottorato Europeo di Ricerca) from the University of Bologna, Italy, and Professor in corporatelaw at the Complutense University of Madrid.

A practising lawyer with wide experience in all areas of civil and corporate law, having worked inthe top-ranking international law firms Clifford Chance and Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo.

His main lines of academic research have focused on company law, having specialised professionally in companytransactions and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, divestment processes, venture corporate transactions,settlement of company disputes in and out of court and shareholder agreements. He has wide experience of otherareas such as civil and commercial contracts, the law pertaining to associations and foundations, corporategovernance, competition and advertising law.

He combines his professional practice with teaching and research work as Professor in Corporate Law at theComplutense University of Madrid.

Languages: Spanish, English and Italian.

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He has wide ranging experience in advising high net worth individuals, large companies and groups on corporate lawmatters. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions; purchase and disposal of shares, assets and business division;private equity transactions; group restructurings; shareholder agreements; corporate transactions and corporategovernance; legal secretariats; data protection; the constitution, dissolution and liquidation of companies; resolution ofcompany disputes in and out of court; unfair competition and restrictive practices; civil and commercial contract lawand the law pertaining to associations and foundations.

Languages: English, Spanish and French.

Rodrigo Martos Prat

Law graduate from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with a Masters Degree inBusiness Law from the Complutense University of Madrid's School of Legal Practice and aDiploma in European Institutional Law, he has taught on ICADE's Masters programme inLegal Practice.

A practising lawyer with wide experience in all areas of civil and corporate law, havingworked in the top-ranking international law firms Cuatrecasas and Clifford Chance.

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• Andrés de la Quadra Salcedo Janini

Law Graduate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, D.E.S.S (Degree in EuropeanCommerce Law at Renée Descartes University of Paris - PARIS V).

Practicing lawyer with a wide experience in pre-litigious advice and in directing disputeresolutions in every area of civil and commercial law. He has worked as a litigation specialist inthe top-ranking law firms, as Clifford Chance and CMS-Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo.

He has directed judicial declaration and enforcement proceedings of all types and before the Courts of First Instance,Commercial Courts, Provincial Courts and Supreme Court, as well as arbitration proceedings both national andinternational, institutional and ad hoc, relative to matters or issues including contractual and non-contractual liability,Company Law, Unfair Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law, advertising, declaration and/or restitution of realestate rights, eviction claims and claims for hidden defects filed by the purchaser against the seller, claims regardingconstruction and buildings, regarding distribution and agency agreements, lease agreements, consumers, insurance,bankruptcy, rights of honor, privacy and self-image and inheritance matters.

Languages: Spanish, English and French.

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Contact details

Address:

C/ Santa Engracia, 122

28003 Madrid

Spain

Contact us:

Tel. +34 914 585 777

Fax. +34 914 572498

E-Mail: [email protected]

Visit us:

www.gallego-martos.com

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