About
Professional Summary
Miguel is Managing Partner of Hotels Department at Colliers International Spain. He was a founding partner of irea and Director of the Hotel Division until March 2018, when irea joined Colliers International. He is held in high regard in the hotel sector thanks to his specialist knowledge and in-depth financial approach. He focuses on offering advice to investment funds, hotel chains and hotel owners.
Accomplishments
He has extensive experience in advising on hotel and asset portfolio sale and purchase deals, as well as on sale and purchase deals involving debt portfolios secured by hotel assets and company sales. He has advised on transactions to the value of over €3,500 million. He also has a great deal of experience in structuring financing for the acquisition and development of hotels, in financial restructuring for hotel groups and in the field of negotiating management contracts with hotel chains.
Miguel began his career at Arthur Andersen, where he worked for 11 years, until he and the other partners founded irea in 2002.
Education
He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from UCM.
Membership Involvements
MRICS – asset valuation
Professor of the MDI Course at IE Business School
Regular speaker at hotel forums and events
Opinion leader on the Spanish hotel sector across various domestic and international media
Clients
Apollo – Blackstone - Goldman Sachs – Oaktree – Cerberus – ASG - Starwood Capital – Westmont Hospitality - Pontegadea – Iberdrola Inmobiliaria - Meliá Hotels International - Marriott - Accor - NH Hotels - Barceló - Hospes - Vincci - Host Hotels & Resorts – Warburg Pincus - Colony Capital - Bank of America - Davidson Kempner - Castlelake - HIPartners - Santander - BBVA
Services
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My Team
My Team
Laura Hernando is Managing Director of the Hotels Department at Colliers International Spain. She was partner of irea from January 2017, when she was appointed to partner after more than ten years of professional career at the firm, until March 2018 when irea joined Colliers International. She specialises in advising on hotel sales, as well as on the sale and purchase of debt portfolios secured by hotel assets and company sales. She also has experience in structuring financing for the acquisition and development of hotels, in financial restructuring for hotel and real estate groups and in strategic consultancy for companies with interests invested in the hotel sector, including the negotiation of management contracts with hotel chains.
She began her career as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions department at Atlas Capital Close Brothers. Laura joined the irea Hotels division in 2005.
In 2017 Gonzalo joined Colliers as Director of the Hotel Team. Previously he had developed his profesional career at Irea´s hotel team for nine years.
Gonzalo has a financial backgroud which allows him to provide advisory services to Hotel and Real Estate companies in transactions (sell-side & buy-side), financial restructuring, search for financing, valuation of NPL´s portfolios, design of strategic plans to Hotel and Real Estate companies, hotel operator search and contract negotiation, feasibility analysis and hotel valuations.