Cementos Molins acquires Secil for €1.4B: advisors

Uría Menéndez has advised Cementos Molins, on the acquisition from Semapa of 100% of the share capital of Secil – Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento. On the sellers’ side, Linklaters in Lisbon has advised Semapa.

Secil – Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento is one of Portugal’s largest cement companies, with more than 2,900 employees and turnover of 740 million euros over the last 12 months.

Urí’as team was formed by lawyers from the Lisbon and Madrid office. Antonio Villacampa (partner, M&A-Private Equity, Lisboa); Gabriel Nuñez (partner, M&A-Private Equity, Madrid); Catarina Tavares Loureiro (partner, M&A-Private Equity, Lisboa); Maria Magalhães (managing associate, M&A-Private Equity, Lisbon); Frederico Pinho Vieira (senior associate, M&A-Private Equity, Lisbon); Maria de São José (associate, M&A-Private Equity, Lisbon); Teresa Russo (associate, M&A-Private Equity, Lisbon); António Castro Caldas (partner, Tax, Lisbon); Tânia Luísa Faria (partner, Competition, Lisbon).

The Linklaters team was led by Diogo Plantier Santos, partner head of the Corporate/M&A practice in Lisbon, together with Mariana Serra Baptista, counsel, and Sílvia Pinheiro Esteves, managing associate. The transaction also involved teams from Linklaters’ antitrust and foreign investment, banking and finance, and regulatory practices.

Pictured above, from left to right, Gabriel Nuñez, Catarina Tavares Loureiro and Antonio Villacampa.

Pictured below, from left to right, Diogo Plantier Santos, Mariana Serra Baptista, and Sílvia Pinheiro Esteves.