Pablo Echenique Bio

Pablo is a partner in the Corporate M&A department of DLA Piper Spain. He has more than 20 years of professional experience and has been involved in numerous corporate and financial transactions, many of them cross border, mainly in the energy, infrastructure and construction sectors in Europe, Latin America, the United States, China, South Africa, Israel, India and the Middle East. Pablo focuses mainly (but not only) on energy transactions. He leads the energy and infrastructure practice in Spain and is an active member of DLA Piper's global Energy and Natural Resources group. He represents energy companies (IPPs), infrastructure funds and fund managers, utilities and all types of lenders in the purchase, sale, development, construction and financing of energy projects, portfolios and companies, including renewable generation projects (commercial-scale, distributed solar and residential, onshore and offshore wind, biomass, self-consumption schemes and hydroelectric), energy storage facilities, transmission systems, hydrogen production facilities and other energy-based transactions. He has a deep knowledge of the renewable energy business, following more than 9 years as general counsel in leading energy companies (where he led very significant transactions, including a USD 1.8 billion bet-the-company deal with EIG, a private equity firm in the energy sector). Pablo is also actively involved in M&A and financing transactions related to various concession-based assets. In addition, he is a professor of Business Law at IE University and has taken part in ‘Tailor-made Business Programmes’ at Georgetown University (Washington DC). He is also an active member in Spain of the Aspen Institute, an American leadership organisation.