Expert Lawyers in Financial and Banking Law

Our team of lawyers has extensive experience in the domestic ‘middle market’, advising leading national credit institutions with whom we have maintained a stable and trusting relationship for many years, as well as debt funds and project promoters/sponsors on all types of financial transactions, offering a practical, dynamic and rigorous approach focused on results and meeting deadlines. 
Our specialist practice in financial and banking law includes:

• All types of structured finance transactions: Syndicated finance.
  • Corporate finance.
  • Acquisition finance (LBOs and MBOs).
  • Direct lending.
  • Sustainable ESG finance (with KPIs).
  • Working capital financing framework agreements.
• Advice on the negotiation, drafting, formalisation and subsequent approval of restructuring plans (pre-insolvency, including challenging such plans on behalf of financial institutions).
• Project finance transactions, specialising in: the renewable energy sector.
  • Real estate sector.
  • Infrastructure sector.
  • Transactions involving the sale and purchase of NPLs and REOs.

Our Financial Regulatory Law team specialises in providing comprehensive advice to entities supervised by the Bank of Spain, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and the Directorate-General for Insurance and Pension Funds (DGSFP).

Our clients include credit institutions, listed companies, insurers, investment services firms, managers of collective investment schemes and venture capital funds, amongst other regulated entities.

We provide legal support in matters of financial law, such as:

1. The incorporation of and advice on collective investment undertakings (CIUs), both closed-ended and open-ended (UCITS), primarily SCRs or FCRs, whether domestic or European, as well as the incorporation of their management companies (SGIICs or SGEICs).
2. The incorporation of Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), Payment Institutions (PIs) or hybrid entities with the Bank of Spain
3. The incorporation of other regulated vehicles such as EAFs, SOCIMIs and others.
4. Advice on the implementation of financial regulations (MiFID II, Travel Rule, DORA, MiCA, etc.)
5. Advice to FinTech projects to determine their regulatory status.
6. Preparation of enquiries and responses to requests for information from supervisory authorities.
7. Assistance with inspection processes and disciplinary proceedings. 
8. Close monitoring of draft legislation, both at national and European level, and of the guidelines issued by bodies such as the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).
9. Training and informative sessions on regulatory developments with a direct impact on institutions’ compliance obligations.”