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Teresa Hermosilla

Associate

Teresa has experience in representing international and domestic clients in civil, contractual and corporate litigation and arbitration, involving construction disputes, complex financial products and liability claims.
She has also advised national and international financial institutions, funds and companies on pre-insolvency (including restructuring), insolvency and guarantee enforcement matters, where she has handled challenges to the judicial approval of restructuring plans, objections to the sale of productive units, claw-back actions and the qualification section (sección de calificación).

Experience

Representative matters

Multiple Spanish and foreign lenders on the insolvency proceedings of Grupo Abengoa and the pre-pack sale of its productive unit.

Avramar Seafood on the restructuring of its financial indebtedness through the newly implemented restructuring plan entered into with creditors.

Pro bono

Advising the Spanish DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee), Comité de Emergencia Español, on its establishment (a project with which, for the first time, the Spanish office won the A&O Pro Bono & Community Investment Awards 2021).

Advising the Junior Achievement Foundation for the development of the Z-Shake project "I am my future" for the academic and professional guidance of students.

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Madrid BAR Association Member, Berkeley Global Society

Awards

  • Band 1 Restructuring and Insolvency Spain, Legal500, 2023

Qualifications

Admissions

Spain, 2021

Academic

Program in restructuring of distressed companies, Instituto de Postgrado e Investigación CES Cardenal Cisneros, 2023

GoArb course 2022-2023, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2023

Masters Degree to access the Spanish Legal Practice, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, 2020

Certificate in Business Law, University of California, Berkeley 2020

Master of Laws (LLM), University of California, Berkeley, 2020

Diploma, Business Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, 2019

Law Degree, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE, 2019

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.