Javier Ibáñez is Partner of the Real Estate Department and member of the Executive Committee at Eversheds Sutherland Madrid office.
Javier has broad experience in the design, structuring and implementation of complex Real Estate investment operations, including its tax, commercial and financing aspects.
He specializes in the hospitality, logistic and retail sectors, as well as in their financing and in advising huge corporations. He acts for real estate developers, institutional investors, operators, banks and large corporations.
Javier has been recognized for several years by prestigious legal Directories such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
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His experience in this practice area includes:
- Sale and Purchase of Hard Rock Hotel in Madrid, representing an international investor (Met-Gün)
- Advising Savills IM Investment on the acquisition of a logistics platform in Zaragoza for 40 million euros
- Advising Sports Direct on a sale and lease back for the acquisition of 6 commercial premises in Spain (Madrid, Sant Boi, Pamplona, Málaga, Granada and Valencia) from Toys R Us
- Advising Johnson Controls on a multijurisdictional sale & leaseback transaction in connection with 4 real estate assets located in Spain, UK and France
- Advising Parker Hannifin Italy SRL and its Spanish subsidiary Parker Hannifin Italy SRL Sucursal en España on the sale of two industrial warehouses in Torrejón de Ardoz and Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain)
- Advising DMI Computer S.A. on the sale and leaseback of an industrial logistic warehouse for technological components in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid, Spain)
- Advising a leading cloud computing data service company on the processing of a multiple municipal urban modification procedure and on the acquisition of three locations for its data centre project
- Advising the Spanish major hotel chain, Room Mate on its expansion to 9 countries and the opening of 25 hotels as well as in its sale to an international investor.
- Javier has been recognized by the prestigious directory Chambers & Partners on the 2023 edition.
- The Real State department co-led by Javier has been recognized by the prestigious directories Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 on their 2022 edition
- Javier has been ranked at Best Lawyers on their 2021 edition
Professional experience:
- Partner of the Real Estate Department at Eversheds Sutherland (2010 – Present)
- Partner at DLA Piper International (2002-2008)
- Partner at Stephenson Harwood (1998-2002)
- Professor of the Master's Degree in Legal Advice at IEB Institute for Stock Market Studies
- Frequent lecturer at IE School
- Javier holds a Law Degree, by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master in Tax Consulting by the IE Law School