Jose Antonio Sánchez-Dafos

Mr. Sánchez-Dafos’ experience includes advising:

M&A  

• Seaya, Cathay, Drake, Luxor in the sale of their respective stakes in Glovo to Delivery Hero for €720 million
• Lineage Logistics Holdings, a global firm specialised in the temperature-controlled logistics industry, in the acquisition of Transportes Fuentes
• The shareholders of Grupo Gransolar in the sale of a 100% stake in the company to Trilantic Capital Partners for €420 million
• Wallbox in its US$1.5 billion merger with SPAC Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. II
• Enagás, together with The Blackstone Group and GIC, in the acquisition of Tallgrass Energy Holdings
• Telefónica in the sale of all its telecom assets in Central America (Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica) for €2.4 billion
• BBB Industries in the acquisition of 100% of the equity of M&R Precision Parts, a Spanish automotive components manufacturer, from Abac Capital

Private Equity 

• TA Associates in the acquisition of the esPublico group, a Spanish group of companies engaged in the development legal and economic content platforms
• Cerberus in the acquisition of the remaining stake of Inmoglaciar Homes from its founders to become the sole shareholder of the company
• Kensing, a portfolio company of One Rock Capital, in the acquisition of Vitae Caps, a leading manufacturer of botanical based ingredients for the food industry
• Archimed in the acquisition of:
  • Spanish life sciences company Suanfarma
  • AKRN Scientific Consulting, S.L., through its portfolio company North American Science Associates, Inc
• Inflexion Private Equity Partners in the acquisition of a 40% stake in Auxadi Contables & Consultores, an accounting services provider based in Spain
• Nazca Capital in the sale of its 100% stake in Moldcom Composites (McBath) to The Engineered Stone Group
• KKR in the sale, as part of a competitive process, of Papresa, Southern Europe's leading newsprint producer, to Quantum Capital
• TA Associates in the sale of its stake in Kipenzi, a leading pet care company in Spain and Portugal, to Peruvian group Emefin
• Oaktree Capital in the sale of HealthCare Activos Inmobiliarios to Altamar Capital, a healthcare real estate investment company
• Sun European Partners in the sale of Famosa, a Spanish toy designer, manufacturer, and distributor, to Italian competitor Giochi Preziosi 

Venture Capital

• Cathay Innovation and Seaya in the Series A financing of PayFlow
• Peri AG in the in the third financing round of Scaled Robotics, S.L., a developer of software and hardware for the construction sector
• Cathay Innovation, Drake Enterprises, and Seaya Ventures in the Series F financing round of Glovo for €450 million
• Toqio, a Spanish fintech startup, in its seed funding round led by Seaya and SpeedInvest
• Cathay Innovation in the financing rounds of:
• Wall Box, developer of technology for electric vehicle chargers
• Medsavana, a developer of an artificial intelligence application for the healthcare sector