Huberto Sánchez-Tabernero is an associate in the Corporate Department in the Madrid office of Latham & Watkins. He focuses on the Real Estate practice and has significant experience advising private equity funds, as well as financial institutions and real estate asset management and servicing entities.

Huberto advises on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions in the real estate sector, such as acquisitions of NPLs and REOs, hotels, logistics assets, and real estate management platforms, as well as financings and refinancings of real estate acquisitions and structured finance, with or without a real estate component.

Huberto’s experience includes advising: 

  • Activum in the acquisition of the luxury hotel Fairmont La Hacienda and its two golf courses
  • Goldman Sachs on the financing for the acquisition of six performing and re-performing loan portfolios by Balbec Capital Management
  • Avenue Europe on the sale to ADIA of a majority stake in certain companies of a group that operates seven hotel assets in Calvià (Mallorca)
  • KKR on the acquisition of PayPal loans in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany
  • KKR in connection with the Series C financing and equity round of Drive Revel, a Spanish car subscription company
  • Cementos Balboa, a portfolio company of KKR engaged in cement production, in its acquisition by Votorantim Cimentos
  • Blackbrook Capital in the acquisition of a portfolio of 22 supermarkets
  • Platinum Equity in the acquisition of Urbaser, one of the world’s largest providers of environmental services, from China Tianying Inc. for an enterprise value of approximately US$4.2 billion
  • Hyatt Hotels Corporation in its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Apple Leisure Group, a leading luxury resort-management services, travel, and hospitality group
  • Demant A/S in the acquisition of the audiology, electro-medicine and otolaryngology business unit of Audifon, a Spanish leading audiology group
  • ActivumSG in the acquisition of Hotel Nobu, located in Barcelona’s emblematic Torre Catalunya, from Selenta Group

Bar Qualification

  • Spain (Abogado)

Education

  • LL.M. in Business Law, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • BBA in Business Administration, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain