Spanish leader Uria & Menendez has advised US buy-out house Advent International Corporation on one of the first public-to-private transactions to be completed by a private equity fund in Spain.

Uria’s head of private equity, Christian Hoedl, advised the Boston-based client on the e170m (£117m) acquisition of Parques Reunidos, a company which owns and operates a chain of leisure parks in the country.