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Coral Yáñez

Coral Yáñez is the Head of Bird & Bird's Iberian Region and Managing Partner of Bird & Bird's Madrid office, where she leads the the Regulatory & Administrative team. She has more than 25 years of full lifecycle regulatory experience on renewable projects (PV, wind, biomass and thermosolar administrative authorisations, due diligences, grid connection and access permits, etc.), and representing energy companies before the relevant national, regional and municipal public authorities. She is also an expert litigator who has handled and led key judicial reviews before the Spanish Courts of Justice on Energy & Utilities related matters (challenging wind farms tenders, electricity blackouts, feed-in tariff regime for solar PV plants, tariffs settlements for biomass plants, grid access disputes, sanctions, among many others). · Bird & Bird

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About

Head of Bird & Bird's Iberian Region and Managing Partner of Bird & Bird's Madrid office. Over 25 years of full-lifecycle regulatory experience on renewable energy projects (PV, wind, biomass, thermosolar) and representing energy companies before public authorities. Also an expert litigator handling judicial reviews before the Spanish Courts of Justice on Energy & Utilities matters.

Practice areas

Energy & UtilitiesRegulatory & AdministrativeLitigationRenewable EnergyProject DevelopmentAdministrative LawPublic Law

Office

Expertise

Renewable energy project authorizations (PV, wind, biomass, thermosolar)Due diligenceGrid connection and access permitsAdministrative litigationEnergy & Utilities litigationPublic law

Education

  • Madrid Bar Association

Admissions

  • Madrid Bar Association

Languages

EnglishFrenchSpanish