Yoko Takagi

Partner
About

Yoko Takagi is a partner in the Corporate department of DLA Piper's Spain office. She has extensive experience in corporate and finance transactions including domestic and international capital markets transactions.

Her practice focuses on corporate transactions (e.g. acquisitions, divestments, financings etc.) advising industrial clients, funds of all types (e.g. private equity, sovereign, infrastructure funds) and financial institutions. Yoko has extensive experience in advising listed companies, both in equity transactions (e.g. IPOs, IPOs, privatisations, private placements, accelerated capital increases, IPOs, rights issues, ADRs, etc.) and debt transactions (e.g. high yield, project bonds, green bonds, etc.), both on the issuers‘ side and on the underwriters’ and underwriters' side. She also has experience advising managers, boards of directors in relation to corporate governance issues, public offerings, policy development and ESG compliance in general.

Previously, Yoko developed her professional career in renowned international law firms.

 

EXPERIENCE

  • Advised Grupo Cox (Cox), a leading Spanish multinational water and energy company, in its acquisition of Iberdrola’s power generation assets in Mexico for US$4.2 billion
  • Advising the banks in the project bond to finance Superstrada Pedemontana Veneta (Pedemontana), a 96km greenfield toll road project in the Veneto Region of Italy, being the Sponsor SIS (51% Fininc and 49% the Spanish listed company Sacyr)
  • Advising an independent Spanish management company specialising in the promotion and development of sustainable infrastructures.in the acquisition of water assets in Navarra from the Spanish listed company OHLA
  • Advising one of Italy's leading private holding companies and a multinational infrastructure and services company in setting up an infrastructure fund to invest in greenfield and brownfields projects and to recycle assets from both sponsors
  • Sale of the portfolio of a global company specialising in the development, design, maintenance and operation of solar photovoltaic power plants in Mexico 535 megawatts of projects in operation to China Three Gorges
  • Advising an independent asset management company engaged in executing and managing infrastructure investments in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake of a Spanish holding company of Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras, S.A.'s interest in 6 shadow toll road assets located in various Spanish regions
  • Advising the financier of a potential buyer of five Spanish public private partnership (PPP) Projects held by DIF Infrastructure III, C.V. composed by hospitals, tram lines, etc.
  • Advising a global financial services group, as financial advisor to Vauban Infrastructure Partners and the lenders in Vauban IP’s acquisition of a 33.4% stake in Metro de Málaga from InfraVia
  • Advising Isquared in relation to the acquisition of the Spanish companies, holders of certain oils assets in Colombia
  • Advising the financiers and the syndicate of banks in relation to the refinancing of the Spanish listed company, media company, potentially through a convertible and equity component
  • Advising a large investment bank in connection with the acquisition of a Spanish road (Autopista del Guadalmedina) by the Infrastructure Fund Mirova
  • Advising on the refinancing of a well-known general purpose car rental company following the company's US Chapter 11 and subsequent refinancing
  • First private placement of the listed Spanish energy and infrastructure company in the US market
  • Advising a recognised oil and gas exploration group in a class action brought by the holders of its listed securities
Languages
  • Spanish
  • English
Education
  • Universidad de Navarra, Law Degree
  • Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Master's Degree in Banking, Corporate, Financial and Stock Market Law
  • College of Law

Publications and media

  • "Ten things to consider when you do a leveraged finance deal in Spain"
  • "Responsabilidad de patronos y directivos de entidades sin ánimo de lucro"
  • "Tributación Medioambiental en EEUU"
  • Chapter in Anuario Mercantil para Abogados 2011
  • Chapter in Anuario Mercantil para Abogados, 2010