Carlos Romero Montejo

Carlos Romero has been a lawyer since 2005, when he began his career in the commercial law department of Ernst & Young in Barcelona (Spain).
Afterwards, he has developed his career in legal firms as Garrigues and KPMG Abogados, advising national and international clients until 2021, when he moved to Madrid (Spain) to work as a lawyer at Mavens.

He founded Abia Legal in 2024.

He has been involved in advising on numerous M&A transactions, a practice in which he has a long expertise with national and international clients, as well as in civil and commercial contracts, debt refinancing processes and corporate advice in various economic sectors.

Carlos holds a Bachelor of Laws by the University of Valladolid (2004) and completed a Master’s Degree in Law at Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) in 2005. In addition, he completed a Diploma in Corporate Finance & Law at ESADE (2015).

He is the co-author of the publication “Alternativas de configuración de las garantías hipotecarias en un proceso de refinanciación” (Alternatives for the implementation of mortgage guaranteed in the framework of a refinancing process) (Anuario Práctica Mercantil para Abogados Wolters Kluwer June 2017; ISBN: 978-84-9020-604-1).

Brief identification of some M&A transactions in which Carlos has been involved:

• Advice to a British investment fund on successive acquisitions of a majority stake in a company engaged in business of diagnosis of diseases by magnetic resonance imaging, with a total price amounting to 15,500,000 euros (June 2023 – March 2024).
• Advice to a Spanish seller on the transfer of 100% of the share capital of a company engaged in the marketing of hydrocarbons, oil and chemical products, with a total price exceeding 40,000,000 euros (November 2022).
• Advice to a Swiss investor on the acquisition of a majority stake in a company engaged in the business of maintenance, repair and refit of deep-sea vessels, with an Enterprise Value amounting to 155,000,000 euros (October 2019).
• Advice to the Spanish seller on the transfer of a branch of activity consisting in the business of diagnostic imaging through the acquisition of share capital and assets, with a total price amounting to 8,400,000 euros (December 2021).
• Advice to the Japanese purchaser on the acquisition of a majority stake in a corporate group engaged in the business of cars authorized dealers, with a total price amounting to 18,000,000 euros (October 2016).
• Advice to the Spanish purchaser on the acquisition of all the assets of a company dedicated to consultancy and creation of software products, for a total price amounting to 7,000,000 euros (February 2017).
• Advice to the Spanish purchaser on the acquisition of a company engaged in the business of production and distribution of bakery and pastry products, with a price amounting to 500,000 euros and the formalization of the necessary financing agreements for the development of the business, amounting to 17,000,000 euros (September 2016).
• Advice to the Spanish seller in the transfer of one hundred per cent of the share capital of a group of companies engaged in the business of security, maintenance and cleaning sectors, with an initial price of 3,000,000 euros and an additional Earn Out amounting to 2,750,000 euros (February 2018).
• Advice to a Spanish mutual company engaged in the business of nursing home and geriatric services sector in a triangular transaction for the purchase and sale of a nursing home business excluding the real estate assets with a price of 1.200.000 euros and subsequent lease of the real estate assets operated in the business to an additional buyer, with an annual rent of 500.000 euros (October 2018).
• Advice in a financial debt restructuring process of a Spanish group engaged in the business of development and maintenance of computer systems and applications with a total debt to be restructured of approximately 35,000,000 euros; assistance in the subscription of the framework agreement, in the granting of personal and movable guarantees and in the subscription of new lines of guarantees (January 2017).
• Advice in the financial debt restructuring process of a Spanish group engaged in the business of fashion and accessories sector with a total debt to be restructured of approximately 25,000,000 euros; assistance in the execution of the framework agreement and in the granting of real estate and movable guarantees (December 2017).