Ainhoa Busto

Ainhoa's representative experience includes advising and/or representing:

• A tech multinational company in relation to an internal investigation regarding potential internal policy and antitrust law violations by its Spanish and Portuguese subsidiaries.
• A pharmaceutical company in relation to an internal investigation regarding potential infringement of the Spanish law, resulting in the lodging of a criminal complaint in accordance with Spanish Whistleblowing Law.
• A leading technology and social media company in criminal proceedings dealing with an alleged violation of the content moderation worker's rights.
• Technology and social media companies in commercial litigation disputes, regulatory matters, and in the areas of EU and Spanish antitrust and competition law.
• Mango in a cutting-edge dispute relating to the creation and utilization of new work of arts in the Metaverse in NFT form against the Spanish entity that manages intellectual property rights of the plastic artists.
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) on the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales, S.A. (Valoriza) from Spanish construction group Sacyr S.A. (Sacyr) for a total consideration (enterprise value, including debt) of €734 million.
• A major US company in relation to antitrust law and specific national/local regulations on competition restrictive practices.
• A leading food and beverage company on multiple antitrust damage claims filed by milk producers in the context of the CNMC's Industrias Lácteas 2 file*.
• A global investment company on a dispute related to the termination of an ISHA agreement and subsequent bankruptcy proceedings against a leading Spanish dental clinics operator*.
• A real estate company on a commercial arbitration against various financial institutions for the alleged breach of certain duties under an SLA agreement*.
• A Spanish construction company on the application for interim measures and subsequent arbitration proceedings against a Danish multinational engineering company in relation to a Swiss law governed agreement for the mechanical erection of a fabric filter installation and other related equipment*.
• A Portuguese PTA producer on a dispute regarding a supply agreement against a Spanish company in the context of insolvency proceedings*.
• A foreign country in a multimillion-dollar damages claim arising from an infrastructure contract against a Spanish company in the context of insolvency proceedings*.

(*) Experience prior to joining White & Case LLP