Let’s reason through this step-by-step. **1. Business and asset profile** Acciona SA is an infrastructure and renewable energy company with significant amounts of long-lived assets (high Property, Plant & Equipment, investment in associates, etc.). This implies a need for stable, long-term financing that matches asset duration. **2. Capital structure review** Looking at the balance sheet: - Equity as of 2023-01-01 is €6,304M versus total assets of €22,595M, for an equity ratio of ~28%. - Non-current liabilities are €8,467M. - The company already uses significant debt, including loans and securities, and also has substantial minority interests. **3. Hybrid bond suitability** Hybrid bonds are treated partly as equity by rating agencies and can strengthen the credit profile without diluting shareholders. For a capital-intensive group like Acciona, some hybrid utilization helps maintain leverage ratios while preserving strategic flexibility. However, 100% hybrid would be unrealistic due to cost and investor appetite. Likewise, 0% ignores the benefits of equity credit and cost-efficiency hybrids provide. **4. Market conditions (2022)** Rates increased sharply in 2022 (swap curves rose), and credit spreads widened moderately. This makes pure debt more expensive, but hybrid bonds, being subordinated and longer-dated, are even more rate-sensitive. Still, IG non-financial spreads remain manageable. **5. Reasonable hybrid proportion** For a firm of this profile, a moderate proportion like 25% of subordinated/hybrid instruments within total debt capital would be plausible—enough to get rating agency equity credit, but not so much as to incur excessive interest costs or investor concentration limits. 25%