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www.holtropslp.com

Vía Augusta 10, 08006.

Barcelona. Spain.

T: (+34) 93 519 33 93

F: (+34) 93 517 56 07

info@holtropslp.com 1

FIRM

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FIRM

HOLTROP S.L.P. Transaction & Business

Law was founded in 2008 with the ambition of

creating a leading law firm in the renewable

energy and agribusiness sectors, with a focus on

international transactions.

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FIRM

Our team consists of: Piet Holtrop and María Ferrer in

management, Natalia Escanez Comino, Jordi Pujol

Puente, Christopher Smith, Jorge Andrey Sterner,

Monica Martin Bengoechea, David Diego Diego,

Helena Badger Queralt, Micaela Santamaría Villa

and Loida Gil Mena as lawyers and Cristina López

Rodriguez and Esteban Carrillo Varga at IT and

administrative support. We also have the support of

Abel Garriga Moyano as of Counsel with respect to

intellectual property matters..

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“The last two words of our name reflect our ambition

to advise our clients with respect to all legal issues

they encounter in their everyday business activity.”

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CHARACTER

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CHARACTER ‘‘Our blog is our primary means of communication’’

To have character means to be persistent in the pursuit of

long term gratification, we do this through mutual

commitment with our clients to energy transition, as an

expression of our loyalty to climate goals. Free after

Aristotle, our lema is that we are what we repeatedly do:

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We

do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,

but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an

act but a habit.

In 2010 we were one of the first

law firms to provide a blog in

Spanish and English.

Since then our blog has become

our principal means of

communication.

We write on a weeky basis on

legal issues related to the

renewable energy and energy

efficiency sectors, intellectual

property questions and our

transactional experience.

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Piet Holtrop participates and shapes the public debate

through his blog “Brussels, Luxembourg or Madrid” in the

publication Energías Renovables, in the blog “Energy as a

right” in Fundación Renovables, 20Minutos, and he writes

as a member of the club of experts in Energy News. He

also regularly publishes in the website of Fundación

Renovables, El Periódico de la Energía, and other

national publications.

CHARACTER

We are partners of the following industry organizations:

APPA, UNEF, AEDIVE, the Platform for a New Energy

Model (PX1NME), Secartys, the Energy Efficiency

Cluster of Catalonia, the Catalan Winemaking Cluster,

and the Catalan Biomass Cluster.

We show our commitment to these organizations through

frequently sponsoring events and via the participation of

our professionals on their panels and discussion groups, as

well as speaking at key events.

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We actively participate in the Legal Working Group of

APPA, the PPA Working Group of UNEF, and we

represent APPA and PX1NME in national and international

tribunals on a Pro Bono basis.

The specialist and general press frequently consult our

Firm regarding developments in our sector, and its

regulatory evolution in general. It is for this reason that our

Firm is one of the most cited in our sector as a legal

reference for the press.

RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

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‘‘We have always fought for a 100% renewables world.”

Our growth is thanks to an attitude that combines our

social values and our business competitivity. We are a

firm that takes a clear ‘pro-renewables’ position, and we

do not represent clients that are incompatible with this

position.

Our defence of the renewable energy sector in Spain is a

good example of this: we won the Spanish Eurosolar

Prize in 2015.

RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

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‘‘We currently defend more than 3.500 renewables installations of a variety of different technologies’’

We currently defend more than 3.500 renewables

installations of a variety of different technologies on

behalf of thousands of different clients, including

individuals, small businesses and companies listed on the

IBEX 35.

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RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

‘‘We fight to return legal certainty to Europe and Spain’’

We also represent APPA, AEOLICAN, ACER,

Greenpeace, Eurosolar, Solartys, the Catalan Energy

Efficiency Cluster and the Platform for a New Energy

Model in various litigations at a national and international

level. With respect to the Platform for a New Energy Model,

we provide our representation pro bono.

These cases and processes are a necessary evil in

returning legal certainty to Europe, starting with Spain.

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RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

‘‘We understand our duty to deliver a concise and precise message regarding the electricity sector to the wider public’’

We are giving it our all to secure a favourable result for

our clients in the Court of Justice of the European

Union.

Our firm has a considerable media profile, given that

we understand our duty to deliver a concise and

precise message regarding the electricity sector to the

wider public.

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RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

‘‘We are what we do every day’’

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Our litigation and claims before the European

Commission and the European Parliament are

particularly relevant and have been supported by

almost the entirety of the renewables sector in Spain.

Piet Holtrop has presented petitions and complaints

regarding self-consumption and payment mechanisms

for renewables before the European Parliament.

Various causes of action presented by our Firm have

resulted in the commencement of investigations by the

European Commission against Spain.

We observe major advances with respect to Smart

Cities, where we advise on matters such as energy

efficiency, district heating and cooling, smart networks,

self-consumption and electric vehicles.

RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Finally, we highlight our participation in different

collaborative financing platforms, such as ECrowd! and

Firmeza Solar and advising on the Crowdfunding

Citizen Energy Project. Recently we have launched

out own Equanimity Litigation platform, which aims to

link justice and crowdfunding.

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RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

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RENEWABLES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Regarding transactions, HOLTROP S.L.P. Transaction

& Business Law has always been a firm orientated

towards providing corporate advice, with a particular

emphasis on international transactions, principally the

acquisition of companies and renewable energies

projects. Over the years we have acted on the sale-

purchase of more than 1,500 MW of renewables projects.

WINEMAKING

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‘‘In our Firm we have always had a strong pipeline of transactional work”

With a lower profile, but no less consistently, we act in

other sectors of the economy. The agribusiness sector,

and in particular the winemaking industry, has been the

second ‘focus’ of our firm since its inception in Spain.

WINEMAKING

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In 2015 we advised SPI Group in its acquisition of the

Señorío de Arínzano winery from the Gran Feudo

group, a group owned by the FENIX fund (a consortium

of banks including BBVA, Banco Santander, CaixaBank,

Sabadell, Bankia and Popular) and represented in the

Transaction by Gómez Acebo-Pombo.

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WINEMAKING

‘‘Our first substantial experience in the sector was in an M&A transaction in 2002”

In the following years we closed a number of additional

transactions that were already in process in the sector.

Our first substantial M&A transaction in the industry was in

2002, regarding a winery in ‘el Priorat’. Piet Holtrop, then

with another firm, acted in the successful closing of the

transaction.

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WINEMAKING

COMMUNICATION

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‘‘We carry out our work in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Dutch, Italian and German”

Communication and its dynamics can make or break a

commercial negotiation.

Speaking a number of languages is an essential condition

in leading to a successful outcome; we carry out our work

in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Dutch, Italian and

German. We have a long multicultural tradition, and

have acted on transactions involving clients based in

Spain, France, Germany, Holland, the UK, the US and

Argentina.

COMMUNICATION

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‘‘We are recognised as facilitators of successful transactions’’

When it comes to negotiating the terms of a transaction,

we combine our intercultural experience with creativity and

a profound legal knowledge of transactional law.

We are recognised as facilitators of successful

transactions, always providing the maximum level of

attention to detail in order to identify every possible

contingency.

COMMUNICATION

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RATES

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‘‘We work using “Alternative Fee Arrangements” (AFA), or methods of alternative billing’’

Billing by the hour and the classic legal model has lost

its importance in the legal world over the years and as

such we do not include this methodology in our

professional offers. The closest we come is in our

billable hour, which is set at 250€/hour. In an

engagement where we work ‘by the hour’, all of our

lawyers will use this rate.

RATES

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‘‘In almost all of our engagements we share the risk with our clients through the inclusion of success fees”

We usually offer a discount of up to 30% on these rates if

we anticipate that we will incur substantial hours on the

engagement. We offer further discounts where if include

success fees. We generally use closed fixed-fees wherever it

is possible to accurately predict the time we will spend on a

matter.

Where we have a high level of control over the task, for

example in Due Diligence exercises, we offer a task-based

fee as opposed to time-based.

RATES

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‘‘We want to foster long-lasting relationships with our clients, and to grow with them’’

The objective of our economic proposals is that our client

can calculate the total cost of our services without

receiving surprises. We participate in the litigation and

transactional risk through our innovative fee structures. We

want to foster long-lasting relationships with our clients, and to

grow with them.

RATES

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CONTACT

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‘‘You can keep up to date with our daily activity at www.holtropblog.com’’

We would be delighted to meet with you to explain everything you

need to know about us.

CONTACT

Vía Augusta 10, 08006.

Barcelona. Spain.

T: (+34) 93 519 33 93

F: (+34) 93 517 56 07

info@holtropslp.com

Twitter @pietholtrop

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T: (+34) 93 519 33 93

F: (+34) 93 517 56 07

info@holtropslp.com

www.holtropslp.com

Vía Augusta 10, 08006.

Barcelona. Spain.

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