Beatriz Amillo is a partner of the Corporate/Commercial Law practice at Garrigues, firm where she has developed her career since she joined in September 2009.

She is focused on M&A, commercial and company law and corporate governance and has a significant experience advising on the following:

• M&A. She has advised both key private equity firms and industry companies on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions across a broad range of industries such as telecommunication, energy, automotive, hotel and commerce, real estate, insurance and IT services.
  
  She advises her clients at each stage of these type of transactions: from designing and structuring of the investment and legal due diligence review of the target companies to drafting of sale and purchase agreements, mergers or corporate reorganisations, joint ventures, shareholder agreements and management team agreements.
  
  Beatriz has extensive experience in M&A transactions across the industry spectrum, but it is worth mentioning that she has been involved in relevant transactions in the infrastructure industry (telecommunication and energy). She had a key role in the advice to Redeia in its last transactions in the telecommunication industry, the acquisition of the leading satellite infrastructure operator Hispasat and the recent sale of 49% of its dark fiber subsidiary Reintel to the US fund KKR. She has also advised and led M&A transactions on the renewables energy industry. Finally, she has extensive experience in joint ventures arrangements in companies that accelerate sustainability / ESG.

• Advice, planning and execution of reorganisations and restructuring processes at companies and groups, mergers and spin-offs.
• Regularly advice to companies in company law and corporate governance. She acts as non director secretary of the board of directors of companies operating in several industries.
• Regularly advice to Spanish companies and international groups based in Spain on commercial contracts.
• Advise to private equity firms on litigation funding investments.
• Advise to hedge funds and other distressed operators on the sale and purchase of distressed companies and assets and on the sale and purchase of portfolios of non-performing loans.

• Degree in Business Administration and Law, Universidad de Navarra.
• IESE Undergraduate Program, IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra.
• Executive Master’s Degree in Corporate Finance, Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
• Executive Master’s Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

Beatriz has taught classes in corporate/commercial and insolvency law as an associate lecturer on the Combined Master’s Degree in Business Law and Access to the Legal Profession at Universidad de Navarra since 2013.

Beatriz is a member of the Madrid Bar Association

Legal 500: Commercial, Corporate and M&A Rising Star 2022: "Beatriz Amillo, who is another important pillar of the team, also stands out." “Total empathy with the client and their needs. Absolute mastery of matters. Flexibility. Availability. Monica Martín de Vidales and Beatriz Amillo are standouts.’