Carmen is an of counsel in our Madrid finance practice with wide experience in all kind of structured finance transactions.
She advises banks, financial entities, investment funds, alternative lenders, borrowers and sponsors on structuring and implementing all type of finance transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance, project finance and restructuring and refinancing transactions, with special focus in the private equity, energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Additionally, she has also significant experience in advising in distress transactions and restructuring processes.
Her expertise is highlighted in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 and Best Lawyers for Banking and Finance since 2022:
- Carmen Jara offers expertise in debt restructuring transactions as well as acquisition and corporate finance mandates on behalf of well-known national and international lenders. "She works well.", Chambers Global 2024 – Spain (Banking and finance)
- "Carmen Jara has a strong capacity to deliver and get things done in due time.", Chambers Europe 2023 – Spain (Banking and finance)
- Carmen Jara enters the rankings following recognition for her involvement in real estate refinancing deals as well as acquisition and emergency finance mandates on behalf of well-known national and international lenders. Clients report: 'She always has a constructive attitude in negotiations. Having her with us we feel very safe and very comfortable.', Chambers Europe 2022 – Spain (Banking & finance)
Background
She has a dual degree in Law and Business administration (E-3) by Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid. She speaks Spanish and English. She is admitted in the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid (ICAM – Madrid Bar Association).
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Banco Santander, Banco Sabadell and CaixaBank, as creditors, on the restructuring of the debt of Naviera Armas, a leading Spanish maritime transport company. The transaction is one of the largest restructuring processes currently ongoing in the Spanish market
- Healthcare Activos Group on the €350 million term loan and €40 million RCF financings, granted by a syndicate of lenders led by CACIB and BNP Paribas, for the purposes of refinancing all the previous existing debt of the group and financing future healthcare asset acquisitions (Financing deal of the Year 2022: South of Europe in the Real Estate Capital Europe Awards)
- Banco Santander on (i) the financing, granted to a SPV controlled by Alantra, for the acquisition of Grupo Hiperbaric, an innovative industrial company exclusively dedicated to High Pressure Processing technology and (ii) a syndicate of lenders including Banco Santander, Caixabank, Banco Sabadell, Ibercaja, Bankinter, Banca March and Caja Rural de Burgos on the financing to be granted to Hiperbaric for the purposes of refinancing its existing indebtedness
- Magnum Industrial Partners on the financing, granted by BBVA, for the acquisition of a stake in SunMedia, one of the largest AdTech companies in Spain
