Irene Tamés de la Sierra

Associate
About

Irene Tames practices in the area of banking and finance law, particularly on various types of cross-border financial transactions. She also has experience in real estate financing, funds financing, regulatory and corporate law matters.

Bar AdmissionsAbogada registered with Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de MadridAdmitted to the Barreau de Luxembourg under her professional home title

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Aareal Bank AG on the Luxembourg legal and tax aspects of a strategic GBP275m financing for three Hilton hotels.
  • Advising Pricoa Private Capital, the European asset management arm of PGIM Inc., on the provision of long-term financing worth EUR100m to Fair Market Value Capital Partners UK Limited and TD Asset Management Inc., to support the acquisition of a 28% stake in PSA Italy, a port operator and supply chain company, from PSA International.
  • Advising the Italian branch of a Spanish bank on the EUR 250m facility agreement granted to a manufacturer of chocolate and confectionery products for the purposes of financing its working capital.
  • Advising a leading investor in the energy transition, and nine of its Luxembourg subsidiaries, in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of a EUR338m common terms and facilities agreement and a EUR57m junior tranche facility agreement with an American multinational investment bank and the related Luxembourg security package for, inter alia, the acquisition of 49% stake in a German strategic offshore wind farm, from a German subsidiary of a worldwide leader in renewable energy.
  • Advising the Luxembourg subsidiary of the client (INEOS Solvent Holdings S.A) in relation to the refinancing of an existing New York law governed TLA/TLB credit agreement for the purposes of, among others, repaying existing TLB loans and offering working capital for future acquisitions, in the context of a multijurisdictional transaction, with 13 jurisdictions involved, valued at approximately EUR1.7bn.
Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
Education
  • Fordham University of New York, US Business Law and Practice Program, 2022
  • Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Master’s Degree in access to the legal profession (Spanish Bar) with specialisation in International Business Law, 2020-21
  • Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Executive Master in Digital Law and New Technologies, 2020-21

     

    Middlesex University of London, Carlos III University of Madrid and University of Valencia, Bachelor’s Degree in Law, 2011-16

Prior Experience

  • 2022 - to date, Associate, DLA Piper Luxembourg
  • 2021 - 22, Junior Lawyer, Madrid based global law firm

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member of the Spanish Chamber of commerce

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